Dance Educators Training Institute Monday, August 5, 2013 UMBC
Suzie Henneman
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How the 21 st Century Skills came to be Presidents New
Commission for Skills for the Workplace Tough Choices, Tough Times
http://www.ncee.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Executive-Summary.pdf
A Nation of Opportunity: Building America's 21st Century Workforce
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=key_workpla
ce
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This is a world in which a very high level of preparation in
reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, science, literature,
history and the arts will be an indispensable foundation for
everything that comes after for most members of the workforce.
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The best employers the world over will be looking for the most
competent, most creative and most innovative people on the face of
the earth and will be willing to pay them top dollar for their
services. This will be true not just for the top professionals and
managers, but up and down the length and breadth of the workforce.
Those countries that produce the most important new products and
services can capture a premium in world markets that will enable
them to pay high wages to their citizens.
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School Reform, Improvement and Accountability: Schools, school
districts, and the States should pursue a wide range of reforms to
improve student academic achievement, focusing their efforts on
aligning curricula, assessments, teacher professional development
and management practices with rigorous academic content and student
performance standards.
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
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http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_arts_map_final.pdf
From Partnership for 21 st Century Skills
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication
Collaboration Creativity Innovation Information Literacy Media
Literacy Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy
Flexibility and Adaptability Initiative and Self- direction Social
And Cross- cultural Skills Productivity and Accountability
Leadership and Responsibility
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1. Critical thinking and problem solving 2. Communication 3.
Collaboration 4. Creativity and innovation
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1. How are the 21 st Century Skills addressed in dance
education?
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1. What, in dance training/education, is not addressing the 21
st Century Skills; where are the gaps? 2. What are the issues,
barriers?
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Results of NDEO Gap Analysis: Analysis of The Standards for
Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts and The 21 st Century
Skills http://nccas.wikispaces.com/space/content
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Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts NDEO:
National Dance Education Organization
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http://nccas.wikispaces.com/
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1. What are the gaps and how can we, as dance educators,
address the gaps? 2. How are you going to apply the information
from this presentation and discussion in your teaching?
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1. Satisfy the changing customer's or client's needs. Your
customer may be either external or internal and your output either
a product or service. Most times customer satisfaction will require
a process of innovation through team- oriented collaboration. 2.
Become a creative, effective and efficient problem solver utilizing
critical thinking skills to meet the customer's need in a response
time that provides a sustainable competitive advantage through
added comparative value and service. 3. In order to perform
effectively, in an increasingly multicultural society, it is
important to also have a global perspective with cultural
understanding and sensitivity. 4. One must also be motivated and
persistent for the right reasons; realizing that you can increase
your motivation substantially to face unforeseen future challenges.
The root of all effective motivation is a healthy amount of self-
esteem. 5. Manage and take responsibility for ones own career,
including multiple and varied job assignments with an international
perspective, to help develop the needed competencies. A formal
career plan, along with feedback from candid and trusted friends
for realism, and a mentor to assist you in navigating career moves
is also critical. 6. Finally, live a balanced and healthy life with
time devoted to family and outside work activities, a skill that is
now recognized as essential to life and career success.
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Daniel Pink Whats important now are the characteristics of the
brains right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-
picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a
whole range of business fields.
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Students capacity to create and express themselves through the
arts is one of the central qualities that make them human, as well
as a basis for success in the 21 st Century. 21 st Century Skills
Map THE ARTS
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Partnership for 21 st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/ 21 st
Century Skills Map THE ARTS http://www.p21.org/storage/document
s/P21_arts_map_final.pdf NEA :Partnership for 21 st Century Skills
http://www.nea.org/home/34888.htm National Dance Education
Organization www.ndeo.org National Coalition for Core Arts
Standards http://nccas.wikispaces.com/ National Teaching Standards
for Dance Education http://www.nj.gov/education/njpep/class
room/arts_assessment/worddocs/Nat ionalPD_DanceStandards.pdf
National Career Development Association
http://associationdatabase.com/aws/N
CDA/pt/sd/news_article/34201/_PAR ENT/layout_details_cc/false
Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind http://www.danpink.com/whole-new-
mind
