21st Century Learning

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21st Century Learning

• The Role of CTE in
• The Career College Readiness Initiative
• Sharon Wendt Paul Sandrock
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

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What is College Career Ready?

• College and career readiness refers to the
  knowledge, habits and skills high school
  graduates must possess to be successful after
  high school.
• College AND Career ready
• Not college OR career

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College Career Message

• I ask every American to commit to at least one
  year or more of higher education or career
  training. This can be community college or a
  four-year school vocational training or an
  apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be,
  every American will need to get more than a high
  school diploma.
• President Obama, Address to Joint Session of
  Congress, February 24, 2009

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What is College Career Ready?

• 35 years ago only 12 of U.S. jobs required some
  postsecondary training or an associates degree
  and only 16 required a bachelors degree or
  higher

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What is College Career Ready?

• Nearly 8 in 10 future job openings in the next
  decade in the U.S. will require postsecondary
  education or training
• 45 in the middle skill occupations
• 33 will be in high skill occupations
• 22 will be low skill and accessible to those
  with only a high school diploma.

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What is College Career Ready?

• Im calling on our state education chiefs to
  develop standards that dont simply measure
  whether students can fill in a bubble on a test,
  but whether they possess 21st- century skills
  like problem solving, critical thinking,
  entrepreneurship, and creativity.
• President Obama Speech delivered to the U.S.
  Hispanic Chamber of Commerce March 2009

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Summit on 21st Century Skills
Preparing Students for Work,Postsecondary
Education, and Citizenship March 14, 2007
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Summit on 21st Century SkillsFocus Group Question

• If you were to advise an 8th grade student in
  preparing him/her to work for your company 5-10
  years from now, what are the skills, knowledge,
  and abilities you believe would be essential to
  develop?
• What are the 21st century skills that will
  sustain and grow a vibrant, global economy?
• What should be expected of todays students so
  they can be effective citizens and leaders in our
  communities?

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Summit on 21st Century SkillsFocus Group Question

• If you were to advise an 8th grade student in
  preparing him/her to work for your company 5-10
  years from now, what are the skills, knowledge,
  and abilities you believe would be essential to
  develop?
• What would you say?
• What would you hear in your community?

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Summit on 21st Century SkillsWhat did we find?

• Most often discussed among groups were
  Learning Thinking Skills and Life Skills
• critical-thinking and problem solving
• collaborative communications skills
• people skills
• contextual learning skills
• personal responsibility
• ethics
• adaptability (nimbleness)

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What did we find? 5 major themes

• Jobs of the future will require well-rounded and
  adaptable individuals
• Schools must provide students with an education
  which balances academic content and real-world
  skills
• Post-secondary education must maintain an
  emphasis on 21st Century Skills
• Partnerships between schools, business,
  communities, and government are essential
• Educators need to develop and apply collaboration
  and team building skills that students can take
  into the business world.

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State Superintendents High School Task Force
(2006)

• Move outside of existing structures and pursue
  innovation
• Engage students in rigorous, authentic learning
  experiences that are relevant to their learning
  needs and future ambitions
• Create smaller learning environments require
  individualized learning plans
• Promote school, parent, business, and community
  partnerships

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Current National Debate
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
Core Subjects 21st Century Themes
Life Career Skills
Information, Media, and Tech Skills
Standards Assessment
Curriculum Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• Learning and Innovation Skills
• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Communication and Collaboration
• Information, Media and Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• Information, Communications, and Technology
  Literacy

www.21stcenturyskills.org
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• Life and Career Skills
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity and Accountability
• Leadership and Responsibility

www.21stcenturyskills.org
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21st Century Skills in Wisconsin

• Life and Career Skills

Bridge Builders Richard Anderson Darlington
High School
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Share your thoughts

• What 21st century skills are going to be
  developed in this class?
• Life and Career Skills
• Learning and Innovation Skills
• Information, Media, and Technology Skills
• What would it take for this to happen in your
  classrooms?

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Motivating Student Learning

• Focusing learning and teaching through assessment
• Engaging students through a meaningful context
  for learning

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Initiatives that support 21st Century Learning

• Career Cluster Pathways
• STEM
• Entrepreneurship Education Taskforce

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New York Times by Thomas Friedman

• So over a decade, American workers have
  maintained their standard of living by borrowing
  and over-consuming vis-à-vis their real income.
  When the Great Recession wiped out all the credit
  and asset bubbles that made that overconsumption
  possible, it left too many American workers not
  only deeper in debt than ever, but out of a job
  and lacking the skills to compete globally.

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New York Times by Thomas Friedman

• But those who have the ability to imagine new
  services, new opportunities and new ways to
  recruit work were being retained. They are the
  new untouchables
• Those with the imagination to make themselves
  untouchables to invent smarter ways to do old
  jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services,
  new ways to attract old customers or new ways to
  combine existing technologies will thrive.
  Therefore, we not only need a higher percentage
  of our kids graduating from high school and
  college more education but we need more of
  them with the right education.

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New York Times by Thomas Friedman

• So our schools have a doubly hard task now not
  just improving reading, writing and arithmetic
  but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
• Bottom line Were not going back to the good old
  days without fixing our schools as well as our
  banks.

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21st Century Skills in Wisconsin

• Life and Career Skills

Biodiesel Project Westfield High School
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21st Century Skills and Rigorous Content

• What evidence did you see of students achieving
  rigorous standards?
• Global Literacy
• Business, Financial, Entrepreneurial Literacy
• Civic Literacy
• Life and Career Skills
• Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Learning and Innovation Skills

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Revising Wisconsins Model Academic Standards
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ELA Graphic here
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Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for
Mathematics

• Mathematically
• Proficient Students
• Attend to precision
• Construct viable arguments
• Make sense of complex problems and persevere in
  solving them
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Look for and express regularity in repeated
  reasoning
• Make strategic decisions about
• the use of technological tools

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A Report Card That Matters
When checking grades online, students see course
grades and 21st Century skill assessments.
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21st Century Skills Assessments
Students receive peer assessments of their
collaboration skills at the end of every project
thats dozens of times each semester!
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Next Generation Assessment Task
Force

• Both formative and benchmark components
• Timely, relevant feedback
• Relevant, engaging assessments linked to 21st
  century skills
• Demonstrate learning in multiple ways
• Multiple opportunities throughout the school
  year

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Every student in your schoolor district 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
• What will it take to make this
  happen?

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Seeing the world with new eyes
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Thank You

• Paul Sandrock Sharon Wendt
• s.paul.sandrock_at_dpi.wi.gov sharon.wendt_at_dpi.wi.go
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