0 basic reading, writing, mathematics, and computer skills that a person needs in order to be able to live and work in society
Functional skills are the basics on which we build; without a good foundation a building will collapse.
Students benefited from online task-based activities because they had to access different functional skills to construct and negotiate meaning collaboratively.
It therefore stands to reason that teachers "only" teaching conversational/ functional skills need to be equally welltrained.
Employability and functional skills are said to be at the centre of the establishment's drive towards reducing re-offending.
Teachers also often emphasize rehearsed reading and repertoire building for successful recitals and auditions to the detriment of sight-reading and other functional skills.
The team also addresses student behavior and social/functional skills outside of their classroom.
At the individual-technical intersection, employees in the firm bring functional skills and competencies such as programming, cost accounting, electrical engineering, etc.
Once focused almost entirely on cognition, the definition now includes both a component relating to mental functioning and one relating to individuals' functional skills in their environments.
