st

21 century

skills

Characteristics 21st
Century Learner
1. Want to have a say in their
education.

2. Often have higher levels of

digital literacy than their
parents or teachers.
3. Expect transparency in their
parents, teachers and mentors.
4. Want you to tell them when
you have messed up, apologize
for it, and move on.

Characteristics 21st
Century Learner
5. Demand the freedom to show
their wild creativity.

6. Want to connect with others

in real time on their own
terms.
7. Collaborate amazingly well.
8. Really can multi-task.

9. Appreciate a trial and error

approach to learning new
skills.

Characteristics 21st
Century Learner
11.Learn by doing
12.Have a can do attitude

13.Thrive in an atmosphere of
controlled challenge.
14.Have multicultural awareness
and appreciation.
15.Open to change.

16.Are equal parts consumer

and creator.
17.Increasingly aware of the
world around them.

Characteristics of the 21st

Century Learner
18.Know where to go to find
information.
19.Are better educated than any
generation before them.
20.Expect inter-disciplinarity
21.Know that they are the
future.

Characteristics 21st
Century Educator
The 21st century
Educator
The Risk
Taker

The
Adaptor

The
Collaborat
or

The
Communic
ator
The
Learner

The Model
The
Visionary

The
Leader

what are
21st century skills?

High School Leadership Summit 10/8/2003

The BRIDGE of 21st Century Skills - Framework

21ST CENTURYS LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS

VITAMIN C DOSE

The FOUR Cs

Critical thinking: Objective examination of assumptions ,

underlying current beliefs to assess their correctness and
legitimacy, and thus to validate or invalidate the beliefs.
Making reasoned judgments

Communication:The ability to convey information to

another effectively and efficiently.Mutual understanding by

sharing ideas.

Collaboration: Cooperative arrangement,

Effective method of transferring 'know how among individuals,

Team work, will promote adjusting in difficult stations.

Creative thinking: Creative thinking can be stimulated

both by an unstructured process such as brainstorming, and

by a structured process such as lateral thinking. Finding
resolutions according to situation.

CRITICAL THINKING
Exercising sound reasoning in understanding
(Reason Effectively)
Making complex choices and decisions
(Decision Making)
Understanding the interconnections among
systems (Systems Thinking)

CRITICAL THINKING
Identifying and asking significant questions
that clarify various points of view and lead to
better solutions (Asking the Right Questions)
Framing, analyzing and synthesizing
information in order to solve problems and
answer questions (Solve Problem)

Reflections on Critical Thinking

How can you model critical thinking/ problem
solving for your students?
What kind of learning environment is necessary to
emphasize problem solving skills in your
classroom?
What could you do to make critical thinking and
problem solving more intentional and purposeful in
your classroom?
How can you encourage students to be better
critical thinkers and problem solvers?
How can you and your colleagues work collectively
to prioritize effective higher order thinking
pedagogy across classrooms?

COMMUNICATION
Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using
oral, written, and nonverbal communication
skills in a variety of forms and contexts
(Effective communication)
Listen effectively to decipher meaning,
including knowledge, values, attitudes, and
intentions (Find meaning)
Use communication for a range of purposes
(e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate, and
persuade) (Expertise on Communication)

Reflections on Communication
How can you model communication skills for your
students?
How can you emphasize communication skills in
general and oral communication skills in particular
in your classroom?
How can students be encouraged to give oral
presentations to varied community audiences?
How can you encourage students in your class to
be better communicators?
How can students be encouraged to use technology
and new media to communicate innovatively and
effectively?

COLLABORATION
Demonstrate ability to work effectively and
respectfully with diverse teams (Team Player)
Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful
in making necessary compromises to
accomplish a common goal (Flexibility to
achieve goals)
Assume shared responsibility for collaborative
work, and value the individual contributions
made by each team member
(appreciate shared responsibility)

Reflections on Collaborations
How can you model effective collaboration skills for
your students?
How can you create a learning environment that
emphasizes collaboration skills?
How can you provide students substantial
opportunities to work in diverse teams?
How can you encourage students to be more
effective collaborators?
How can teachers share/improve their practices for
increasing collaboration activities in their classroom
practices?

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Think Creatively
Use a wide range of idea creation techniques
(such as brainstorming)
Create new and worthwhile ideas (both
incremental and radical concepts)
Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate
original ideas to improve and maximize
creative efforts

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Work Creatively with Others
Develop, implement, and communicate new
ideas to others effectively
Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspectives; incorporate group input and
feedback into the work
Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in
work and understand the real world limits to
adopting new ideas

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Work Creatively with Others
View failure as an opportunity to learn;
understand that creativity and innovation are
part of a long-term, cyclical process of small
successes and frequent mistakes

Implement Innovation
Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and
useful contribution to the field in which the
innovation will occur

Reflections on Creativity
How can you model creativity and innovation skills
for your students?
How can you encourage creativity and innovation in
your classroom?
How can you incorporate more creativity and
innovation into your lesson plans?
How can you encourage students to be more
creative and innovative?
How can you and your colleagues work together to
improve your pedagogical practices involving
innovation and creativity?

21ST

APPLYING THE
CENTURY LEARNING SKILLS

THE K-12 FILIPINO LEARNER

THE K-12 CURRICULUM

Curriculum Exits