Welcome to the Skill Solutions website!

This website is dedicated to professors, teachers and tutors teaching skills at colleges or universities. The site is developed around the Skill Sheets collection, but we trust that this site will also be of help to those of you that do not use the Skill Sheets (yet!).

We believe that you can benefit from this site regardless of whether you teach a designated skills course or teach a ‘content oriented’ course. When teaching a content oriented course you might be confronted with students that you believe could further develop their skills levels; making both their own and your life easier.

The Skill Sheets collection has been designed as a practical tool to help students work through the ‘skill circle’ and linking the various skills at ever higher levels of mastery and sophistication (cf. table below). Once students have understood the basic logic of this approach, they will find hard to stop learning!

Sometimes the skills are easy to develop and master, but more often they require intensive training over longer periods of time. They always have to be linked to real research and content, otherwise you will only learn a number of ‘tricks’ without substance. The Skill Sheets and this website are designed to support professors, tutors and students in this training process.

On this site we offer you support support through various downloads, examples of what a skills course could look like. The most positive feedback we have received relates to the section where we offer references to the Skill Sheets for various ‘real life’ problems that your students are bound to be confronted with.

The value of the Skill Sheets collection depends to a very large extent on the enthusiasm and dedication of the teachers that use them. We thank you for your efforts, but we want to do more than be thankful. Please contact us if you have any suggestions or feedback that we can incorporate to help you and other users get more out of the Skill Sheets!