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1. Dance Educators Training Institute Monday, August 5, 2013 UMBC Suzie Henneman

   21st Century Skills and the Learner

2. How the “21st Century Skills” came to be… President’s 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_workplace

   Historical Context

3. Summary from Tough Choices, Tough Times 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.
4. Summary from Tough Choices, Tough Times 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.
5. Summary – A Nation of Opportunity: Building America's 21stCentury Workforce —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.
6. 21st Century Skills: Thirteen 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
7. http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_arts_map_final.pdf From Partnership for 21st Century Skills

   21st Century Skills Map THE ARTS

8. Thirteen Skills and the Arts 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
9. Critical thinking and problem solving Communication Collaboration Creativity and innovation

   The 3 R’s and 4C’s

10. 21st Century Skills Student Outcomes and Support Systems
11. How are the 21st Century Skills addressed in dance education?

    Discussion #1: Group discussion

12. What, in dance training/education, is not addressing the 21st Century Skills; where are the gaps? What are the issues, barriers?

    Discussion #2: Think/pair/share

13. Results of NDEO Gap Analysis: Analysis of The Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Artsand The 21st Century Skills http://nccas.wikispaces.com/space/content

    NDEO Gap Analysis

14. Where do we start as dance teachers/educators?

15. Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts NDEO: National Dance Education Organization

    Standards

16. http://nccas.wikispaces.com/

    National Coalition for Core Arts Standards

17. What are the gaps and how can we, as dance educators, address the gaps? How are you going to apply the information from this presentation and discussion in your teaching?

    Discussion #3: Small groups of 4-6, designate a note keeper, and spokesperson

18. Six Lifelong Transferable Competencies (LTCs) To succeed today one must: 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 one’s 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 lifewith time devoted to family and outside work activities, a skill that is now recognized as essential to life and career success.
19. Daniel Pink “What’s important now are the characteristics of the brain’s right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields. “
20. “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 21st Century.” 21st Century Skills Map THE ARTS
21. Resources Partnership for 21st Century Skills http://www.p21.org/ 21st Century Skills Map THE ARTS http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_arts_map_final.pdf NEA :Partnership for 21st 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/classroom/arts_assessment/worddocs/NationalPD_DanceStandards.pdf National Career Development Association http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/34201/_PARENT/layout_details_cc/false Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind http://www.danpink.com/whole-new-mind