Each 21st C Skills Workbook contains many different exercises covering the full range of 21st C skills needed for success at school.
Exercises that cover all five categories of 21st C Skills for senior school students (Grades 9-12)- Communication, Social, Self-Management, Research and Thinking skills. These exercises have been designed so that each one can be used by students and teachers in any subject area.
The idea with this workbook is for all senior students to have one each, which will last them for the whole of their senior studies. Teachers can use the indexing of exercises to plan out a school-wide programme of 21st C skills introduction and development to cover all students as they progress through their qualifications. This book will enable all schools to be able to create and deliver their own unique 21st C Skills programme to suit their school, their country and their particular mix of cultures.
Each exercise has been designed to help students to improve in one very specific aspect of learning in general. The aim of this book is to help students improve their own success - however they define success.
Students need to practice the 21st C Skills exercises the same way they might practice a musical instrument, a sporting pursuit or a new language. First, they need to work out exactly how to do it well and then do it over and over again, making small improvements every time until they get it. Students will know they have got it when they can do it without thinking about it and are perhaps even good enough to teach someone else.
Teachers can pick one 21st C Skill that they most want to develop with their students, find the correct exercise in this book and get as many teachers as possible to have their students practice that same exercise in their subject class. Using student self-assessment to monitor progress. Once teachers have one skill exercise working well across the student body they can pick another, make a plan, create a framework.
Each exercise gives students an activity to perform to practice the skill and it also gives students what is called a "Mastery" statement. This is a definition of what someone who was at the Expert Level in this particular skill would be able to do. Students can use this statement as something to aim for.
A logical flow of student 21st C Skill development would be to have them all start with 3a) Metacognition 1 - to learn how to accurately self- assess their own skill development and then move to 5g) Hard and easy choices - to learn how to make good decisions while making a well informed decision about their own future post-school. To do this they need to complete 3h) Become aware of own values and virtues and it would be very useful for them to master both 3c) Achieving immediate goals and 3d) Use an effective goal-setting process to successfully achieve long-term goals so that they stay focused on high achievement and manage the time that they have as well as they can. To be fully effective in a digital world all students also need to practice the strategies of 2a) Representing yourself on social media and 2b) Control your own data and keep your social media identity secure and in order to cope with the pressures and stresses of DP life they also need to learn how to 3g) Use the process of 'failing well' to help achieve academic and other goals and 3i) Deal effectively with pressure, stress and anxiety.
Once they have completed these exercises they can then pick out and do the other exercises as they need them to achieve subject and qualification goals. The ones they need throughout the DP that correlate best with subject tasks given to them by teachers.
This book is a self-help manual for all the skills students need to succeed - however they want to succeed.
21st C Skills Workbook
"Your teachers will probably get together and select the exercises that they think will help improve any student’s performance at school and then ask you to do these exercises in different classes. That will work fine but you can also do lots of these exercises by yourself or with a friend."
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