21st Century School

2121stst CENTURY SCHOOL CENTURY SCHOOL

A Future School

By Viki Gardner

21st CENTURY SCHOOL…21st CENTURY SCHOOL… …has abandoned 20th century methods

…in favor of 21st century skills

21st CENTURY SCHOOL…21st CENTURY SCHOOL……doesn’t teach reading, writing, and arithmetic…

…it teaches how to analyze Web sites, blog responsibly, and manage money online

Reading

WritingArithmetic

21st CENTURY SCHOOL21st CENTURY SCHOOL

…teaches • resilience and strategies to cope with constant

change, including dealing with failure and taking risks.

• the ability to easily learn, unlearn and relearn. • how to deal with massive amounts of information and

what to do with it.• creativity, global awareness, diversity, critical thinking,

problem solving, and digital citizenship.

21st CENTURY SCHOOL…21st CENTURY SCHOOL……is where digital natives…

…meet digital immigrants…

…and share great feats of knowledge

21st CENTURY SCHOOL…21st CENTURY SCHOOL……permits more opportunities in the curriculum for play and

imagination…

…because we are preparing students for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet.

21st CENTURY SCHOOL…21st CENTURY SCHOOL…

…provides professional development programs that integrate and model 21st Century skills in method and delivery, and guides teachers in utilizing new technology.

…brings administrators, teachers, students and parents together in

learning communities.

…promotes teachers’ sharing best practices first with each other and then beyond their own schools through virtual learning communities.

…hires only master teachers who care about the future of all 21st Century students.

21st CENTURY SCHOOL21st CENTURY SCHOOL…is molding tomorrow’s global leaders

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