Still.... what set of skills???

Finally,
We have come to the stage of compiling the lists of skills after distilling them from the various CPDD curriculum guide. It is not meaningful if we are just accumulating the skills on one list.
How to make it meaningful to the teachers?
We tried looking at the 21st century skills to see if we can have some broad strands that we can use and then compiling the list according to those strands. But even then I realised that we have a few problems during our discussions.
1.   We have problem distinguishing between tools and skills. We are not specialists who have in depth knowledge of the curriculum, skills, knowledge, tools, etc.
2.   The terminologies used in the different subjects may not literally mean so. Eg. Investigation in science is totally different from investigation in History.
3.   Some of these strands or skills do overlap each other. Eg, thinking skills and communication skills. A substantial amount of comprehension skill, analytical skills etc is need to perform good communication skills.

So how about just compiling the thinking skills (based on Blooms Taxonomy) across the various departments? Then skills like managing information, communication skills are just ways of exhibiting the thinking skills *.

After having a brief look at an article on Blooms Taxonomy and the skills distilled from the CPDD curriculum guide, it seems that all the subjects would have covered all the thinking skills, based on my assumption above *.
Then why are the students not applying the thinking skills across?
Is it because the higher order thinking skills are not explicitly taught in the school?
Is it because the teachers are competent enough to teach the higher order thinking skills? (me included)
Is it because the students need to be explicitly shown the linkage and cross application of skills?

Only when we have the key leverage question, then the curriculum development team can gear towards the right direction to help. No answer yet.
We have to research more and talk to more people before we can synthesize the ideas.

But one good idea that the team came up with is that a suggested list of tools is to be given for each skill, so that the teachers will find that list complete and useful for implementation.