21 st Century Skills in a Personalized Learning Environment

1. 21st Century Skills in a Personalized Learning Environment

2. “To compete and win in the global economy, today’s students & tomorrow’s leaders need to have 21st century skills. These 21st century skills include the development of global awareness and the ability to collaborate and communicate and analyze and address problems. Every child should have the opportunity to acquire and master these skills and our schools play a vital role in making this happen.” Michael Dell CEO, Dell, Inc.

3. Predictors of Success in a 21st Century Workplace • Core Subject Mastery • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Good Communication & Collaboration • Information & Technology Literacy • Flexibility & Adaptability • Innovation & Creativity • Global Competence • Environmental Literacy

4. School 2.0 School 1.0 • Teacher centric • Content coverage • Memorizing information • Lecturer • Whole group Configuration • Single instructional & learning modality • Memorization and recall • Single discipline • Isolated • Textbook dependent • Teachers teaching to one learning style • Learning content • Learning isolated skills & factoids • Acting purely as a student • Learner centric • Learning & doing • Using information • Facilitator • Flexible grouping configuration • Multiple instructional & learning modalities • Higher order thinking skills • Interdisciplinary • Collaborative • Multiple Information Sources • Teachers addressing multiple learning styles • Learning how to learn • Completing authentic projects • Acting as professional in the discipline

5. 21st Century Skills

6. Learner-Centered Classrooms • Cooperative activities • Independent and interdependent learning • Collaboration • Flexibility • Project Planning • Time Management • Problem Solving

7. Learner-CenteredClassrooms • Inquiry-based • Authentic intellectual work • Collaborative projects • Interdisciplinary • Reflective & self-corrective

8. National Learning Without Walls Projects Global Warming: We’re All in this Together Watersheds: A Drop in the Bucket Trading Spaces: Creating the Ultimate Learning Environment Europe: From Past to Present Giving Without Walls: Social Entrepreneurs

9. Personal Learning Plans (PLP’s)

10. Personal Learning Plans - Overview • Collaborative process between teacher, parent & student • Revisited quarterly • Recognition of each student’s unique skills, passions & characteristics

11. Part 1: Academic Skills • Reading Goal • Shared investment • Teacher responsibility • Parent responsibility • Student responsibility • Mathematics Goal • Shared investment • Teacher responsibility • Parent responsibility • Student responsibility

12. Part 2: Life & Career Skills Emphasizes: • Good work habits & organizational skills • Project planning & time management • Processing & comprehending information

13. Part 3: 21st Century Skills • Direct connection to 21st century themes & skills • Platform for innovation, collaboration & technology-based networking • Core content & interdisciplinary curriculum connections • Customized learning opportunity

14. Part 4: Learning Styles Profile • Enhancing personalized learning • Recognizes each child’s ideal learning style

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16. Our goal is to prepare students to be academically successful, to be capable of transferring their knowledge and skills to new challenges, and to be confident in their ability to succeed. We are your school for the 21st century.