Now that we’ve established what 21st Century skills are, let’s answer the next big question.
Do employers actually want people with 21st Century skills?
While 21st Century skills have always been important, they’ve become essential in a worldwide market that moves faster by the day.
These skills all double back to one key focus.
Someone’s ability to enact and / or adapt to change.
This is because any industry is capable of changing at a moment’s notice. Industries are now regularly disrupted with new ideas and methodologies.
Those industries that haven’t been disrupted aren’t immune though. They just haven’t been disrupted yet.
With that in mind, the world has entered an era where nothing is guaranteed.
As a result, students need to learn to guide the change that’ll inundate their lives. At the very least, they need to learn how to react to it.
Otherwise, they’ll be left behind.
This is especially true as customer demand accelerates in all industries along with expectations for newer features, higher-level capabilities, and lower prices.
In today’s marketplace, falling behind means becoming obsolete.
That’s a familiar concept to all of today’s students as tomorrow’s advancements make today’s miracles quaint or unimpressive.
Today, the only consistency from year to year is change.
That's why many teachers like you are incorporating the 21st Century Skills Assessment into their career readiness courses.
With 21st Century skills, your students will have the adaptive qualities they need to keep up with a business environment that’s constantly evolving.
Now you know what 21st Century skills are and why employers want new hires to have them.
So how do you teach them in your daily classes?
Before getting into the details, it's important to identify who should teach 21st Century skills.
While these skills can be taught at any grade level, we find it's most important to teach 21st Century skills in middle or early high school.
This is the time when your students need to hone their career readiness skills before they enter the workforce!
So how can middle and high school teachers teach 21st Century skills effectively?
Click below to download the Ultimate Guide to Teaching 21st Century Skills in Secondary Schools and find out!