A New Vision for 21st Century Education

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Educating Students for the 21st Century
Challenges for State Policy and Policymaking
A New Vision for 21st Century Education
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Ken Kay, President Partnership for 21st Century
Skills 2006 NCSL Annual Meeting and
Exhibition Nashville, Tennessee August 18, 2006
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Overview

• Why are 21st Century Skills so important?
• What is the framework for 21st Century
  Skills?
• What can State Leaders do?

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Why are 21st Century Skills so Important?
5 Reasons
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21st Century Skills
1. We need to produce 21st century citizens.
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21st Century Skills
2. The world is flat.
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21st Century Skills
3. The magnitude of our competition is changing.
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21st Century Skills
China India
300 Million Skilled Workers
Japan
25 Million Skilled Workers
2025
1985
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21st Century Skills
4. The U.S. is falling behind.
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21st Century Skills
OECD Ranking
Ranking of G8 countries 10th grade math
problem solving
Problem Solving
Math
Science
Reading
14th
15th
15th
18th
18th
24th
24th
2000
2000
2000
2003
2003
2003
2003
Source PISA, 2000, 2003
Courtesy of Cisco
Systems
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5. The nature of work is changing.
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How many of your Parents Grandparents had only
one or two jobs in their lifetimes?
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How many jobs will a young person have today
between age 18-38?
10.2 jobs
SOURCE Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market
Activity, and Earnings Growth Among Younger Baby
Boomers Recent Results From a Longitudinal
Survey Summary, US Dept. of Labor, 2004
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21st Century Skills
21st Century
20th Century
1 2 Jobs
10 15 Jobs
Number of Jobs
Flexibility And Adaptability
Mastery of One Field
Job Requirement
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Subject Matter Mastery
Teaching Model
Subject Matter Mastery
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Assessment Model
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What is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
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21st Century Skills Framework
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21st Century Skills Framework
20th Century Education Model
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21st Century Skills Framework
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21st Century Skills Framework
Core Subjects

• - English
• Reading or Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• Foreign Languages
• Civics

• Government
• Economics
• Arts
• History
• Geography

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Thinking and Learning Skills
• Critical Thinking Problem Solving Skills
• Creativity Innovation Skills
• Communication Information Skills
• Collaboration Skills
• Contextual Learning
• Information and Media Literacy

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21st Century Skills Framework

• ICT Literacy
• Information and communications technology (ICT)
  literacy is the ability to use technology to
  accomplish thinking and learning skills
• Critical Thinking Problem Solving Skills
• Creativity Innovation Skills
• Communication Information Skills
• Collaboration Skills
• Contextual Learning
• Information and Media Literacy

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21st Century Skills Framework
The ICT Literacy Maps show how thinking and
learning skills and technology can be integrated
into the following core subjects -
Math - Science - English -
Geography to be released this
fall- Social Studies
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21st Century Skills Framework
21st Century Model
Geographic Content
Analytic Thinking
Geography
Global Positioning Software
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21st Century Skills Framework

• Life Skills
• Leadership
• Ethics
• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Personal Productivity
• Personal Responsibility
• People Skills
• Self Direction
• Social Responsibility

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21st Century Skills Framework

• 21st Century Content
• Global Awareness
• Financial, Economic, Business and
  Entrepreneurship Literacy
• Civic Literacy
• Health Wellness Awareness

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21st Century Skills Framework
These are the design specs for a 21st Century
education

• Core Subjects

• Thinking and Learning Skills

• ICT Literacy

• Life Skills

• 21st Century Content

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What can State Leaders do?
7 things
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What can State Leaders do?
A State Leaders Action Guide to 21st Century
Skills A New Vision for Education
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What can State Leaders do?

• High-profile leadership. State leaders
• should
• Educate leaders at all levels to promote the
  importance of 21st century skills.
• Align your educational system with your economic
  development strategy.

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What can State Leaders do?

• Broad consensus and a shared vision.
• Develop a consensus among the key
• stakeholders on the 21st century skills
• needed by students in your state.
• Use the MILE Guide to assess where you are today.

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What can State Leaders do?

• Ongoing professional development in
• 21st century skills. Create a teacher
• professional development strategy for
• 21st century skills.
• Examples
• West Virginia
• Lawrence Township (Indiana)
• North Carolina

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What can State Leaders do?

• Ongoing professional development in 21st
  century skills.
• (continued)
• Train administrators in 21st century skills.
• Ensure teachers receive ongoing training.
• Work with teacher education institutions to
  promote the acquisition of 21st century skills
  for future educators.
• Add competency in 21st century skills to
  accreditation criteria for teacher education
  programs.
• Connect teacher and principal certification,
  licensure and compensation to proficiency in both
  core subjects and 21st century skills.
• Create 21st Century Teaching Academies, where
  teachers can develop and renew 21st century
  skills and pedagogy in structured programs.

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What can State Leaders do?

• Standards and curriculum aligned with 21st
• century skills.
• Higher standards are essential.
• Example
• West Virginia

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What can State Leaders do?

• 21st century assessments. Create
• modern assessments that measure 21st
• century skills, such as critical thinking,
• problem solving, communication skills
• and ICT literacy.
• Examples
• New Tech High
• Collegiate Learning Assessment
• West Virginia
• North Carolina

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What can State Leaders do?

• 21st century assessments
• (continued)

Assessment of 21st Century Skills The Current
Landscape June 2005 Partnership for 21st
Century Skills www.21centuryskills.org
Partnerships Report on Assessment
http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/ot
herdocs/ Assessment_Landscape.pdf
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What can State Leaders do?

• An effective communications strategy.
• Engage everyone, from state-level officials
  to
• front-line educators, parents and students,
  in
• the vision of 21st century learning.
• Example
• CCSSO/P21 State PR Tool Kit

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What can State Leaders do?

• An aggressive implementation strategy.
• Several states and districts are implementing
  
• 21st century skill strategies
• Examples
• P21 Leadership States
• CCSSO SCASS.21
• West Virginia
• North Carolina
• High School Reform

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What can State Leaders do?

• An aggressive implementation strategy.
• (continued)

We need a new definition of rigor that includes
21st Century Skills Results that Matter 21st
Century Skills and High School Reform (March,
2006)
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Conclusion

• Every student in this nation must be
• A critical thinker
• A problem solver
• An Innovator
• An effective communicator
• An effective collaborator
• A self-directed learner
• Information and media literate
• Globally aware
• Civically engaged
• Financially and economically literate

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Conclusion
These skills should become the design specs of
K-12 education in the United States.
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Conclusion
State Legislators and NCSL should be driving
forces behind the 21st century skills movement.
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