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Super Skills for 21st Century Learners. Toni Rader Department of Professional Learning TLRader@washoeschools.net. Working Agreements. A sk Questions and Construct Answers E ngage Fully and Embrace Discomfort I ntegrate and Construct New Information
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SuperSkills for 21st Century Learners Toni Rader Department of Professional Learning TLRader@washoeschools.net
Working Agreements • Ask Questions and Construct Answers • Engage Fully and Embrace Discomfort • Integrate and Construct New Information • Open Your Mind to Diverse Views and Value Others’ Strengths • Utilize What You Learn, Unleash it and Feed it Back
Self-Regulation Notice where you are at any given time and make sure you support yourself by asking questions, note taking, stretching yourself. • Moments of Validation • Moments of Reminding • Moments of New Information
Agenda At your table, spend 4 minutes talking: Given the agenda for today,… • What are you most intrigued by or looking forward to? OR • What do you think will be useful for you?
Super Skills Inventory • What “superhero” skills do you have? (What are your strengths as a teacher, parent, etc.?) • If you could wish any of those superskills on your students, which ones would you like them to have?
Video Reflection At your table: • Discuss the ideas from the videos that resonated with you. • List some of the themes from your group’s discussion and be prepared to share them with the whole group.
Jigsaw to Learn • Each team member is assigned a reading. • Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity • In your expert groups: • Read the material, and then converse about its meaning. • Determine what ideas you will share and how you will share the ideas in your home groups. • Return to your home groups and share what has been learned in the expert groups.
Super Skills for the 21st Century Discuss with a colleague… As a teacher, how do allow your students to communicate, think criticallyandcreatively, and collaborate?
Discussion Format • Menu • 20 “Appetizer” • 20 “Soup” or “Salad” • 20 “Main Course” • 25 “Dessert” and “Digestion” (Synthesis) • 15 Share whole group • Seating Arrangement • Every participant visits each table to answer essential questions • Choose the order so as to ‘mix up’ the groups each time
Tables & Questions • Tables: • Collaboration • Critical Thinking • Communication • Creativity • Questions: • What ideas do you have about integrating this skill into your instruction? • What challenges do you think your students may encounter when learning this skill? • How might you lessen those challenges?