21st Century Competencies

Think About

How are we supporting: CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP, CRITICAL THINKING and PROBLEM SOLVING
LEARN TO LEARN in our learning communities?
How do the 21st century competencies meet the ever-changing landscape of society/schooling/education?
How can 21st century competencies be effectively integrated into current classroom pedagogy?
How do we afford the opportunities for meaningful, authentic, and purposeful competency attainment in our learning communities?

"At minimum, our certainty that the only thing we can claim about the future is its uncertainty provides reason enough to prepare students to be diversely skilled, nimble-minded and technologically savvy citizens." Institute for Studies in Education

Although these competencies have always been essential, how have they evolved over time, and why are they so important today?

Look Fors:

✅Students working collaboratively, actively listening to each other, contributing an equitable share of the work. This can be done in person, face-to-face, or on a virtual platform such as G-Suite, Padlet, etc.

✅Students demonstrating creativity - building models, colour-coding,

✅Students working with multiple solutions or trying to solve open-ended problems

✅Students able to explain their thinking and what led them to solve the problem the way they did.

✅Students revising as they go. Revisiting the work they have and making changes to it as they progress.

✅Students responding to each other and providing descriptive feedback

✅Students reflecting on descriptive feedback from their peers about the process and using it to improve their work

✅Students taking multiple viewpoints into consideration when working through a challenge

✅Are they sharing what they know in a way that displays their strengths? Are they building and designing prototypes, showing revisions and changes before designing the final model?

✅Students accessing a variety of tools to solve problems - this can include accessing human resources (other staff, other students, experts in the field) - both in person or digitally using tools such as Social Media, Skype

✅Considering global perspectives when working on a task? Are they making global connections?

Additional Resources

Use this sketchnote as an entry point for learners as they begin to explore 21st Century Competencies. A possible activity is to have them see what they: