This lesson outlines the 21st Century Skills education reform model, its components and goals. Learners will review the rationale behind this educational movement as well as effective strategies and examples of ways to integrate traditional content learning (3 R’s—reading, writing, and arithmetic) with 21st Century Skills learning (4 C’s—critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation). (2 hours)
Objectives
- Each learner will review classroom examples of 4 C's strategies and compare those strategies to those being used in the learner's classroom.
- Each learner will describe the concepts of "transfer" and "systems thinking" and identify examples from their own program where children have/could demonstrate those cognitive skills.
- Each learner will identify existing outcomes or standards in their current state/national guidelines that align with the "21st Century Skills" expectations.
