Automated Basic Skills

Automated Basic Skills:
automated basic skills- are skills that are applied without conscious thought. The are basic and domain-specific strategies. (Woolfolk, 2013).

Stages:
1. Cognitive- Following steps/ directions guided by declarative knowledge.
2. Associative- Combining individual steps into larger units
3. Autonomous- Where the whole procedure can be accomplished without much attention

Teachers need to provide opportunities to practice these steps. They can not be something we assume children know how to do or were previously taught how to do them. As teachers and future teachers we must give students the pre-requisite knowledge and the opportunities to practice these skills, while providing feedback and help to move students through these stages. (Woolfolk, 2013).