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Nonprofit. Research Based. Mission Driven. Since 1980.

Nonprofit. Research Based. Mission Driven. Since 1980. Nonprofit. Research Based. Mission Driven. Since 1980. 21 st Century Skills: Teaching a New Generation of Learners. Developmental Studies Center. Non-profit organization, Oakland CA Working with schools since 1980 Mission-Based.

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  1. Nonprofit.Research Based.Mission Driven.Since 1980.

  2. Nonprofit. Research Based. Mission Driven. Since 1980. 21st Century Skills: Teaching a New Generation of Learners

  3. Developmental Studies Center • Non-profit organization, Oakland CA • Working with schools since 1980 • Mission-Based A Commitment to the Whole Child To help children develop to their full potential - academically, ethically, socially, and emotionally

  4. Funding for DSC generously provided by:

  5. DSC Guiding Principles • Build on intrinsic motivation in learners. • Build an inclusive learning community. • Integrate academics with social and ethical learning. • Set up the learning situation so learners do the thinking. • Provide intellectual rigor and accessibility. • Advance teacher practice. .

  6. Reading Comprehension • Grades K-8 • Making Meaning Vocabulary K-6 • Comprehensive Writing Curriculum • Grades K-6 • Intervention: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Sight Words • Single-syllable and polysyllabic decoding • Grades K-12 Literacy Programs • Complete Spelling Program • Grades 1-6

  7. Community Building • Grades K-6 • Class Meetings • Cross-age Buddies • Schoolwide Community-Building • Homeside Activities Caring School Community Character Education & After School Programs • KidzLit, K-8 • KidsMath, K-6 • Math Explorer, 6-8 • Science Explorer, K-3 • NEW! KidzScience 3-5 After School Enrichment

  8. Session Goals • Think and talk about the skills students will need to be successful in the 21st Century • Reflect on the challenges to developing 21st Century learners • Explore the DSC approach to preparing 21st Century learners and teachers

  9. 21st Century Skills in Action • As you watch the video, ask yourself: What does it really mean to be equipped with skills for the 21st century? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNlIif0hHY

  10. Team Builder: Fold the Line Q What are they going to need to know? What are the skills they are going to need to help them get there? Q Think about a time when you learned something really well. What are some of the things that made your learning experience invaluable?

  11. Skills Required in the 21st Century • Design, evaluate, and manage one’s own work • Frame, investigate, and solve problems using a wide range of tools and resources • Collaborate strategically with others • Communicate effectively in many forms • Find, analyze, and use information for many purposes • Develop new products and ideas

  12. Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus oncreativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.  -Partnership for 21st Century Skills

  13. Learning & Innovation Skills: The 4 Cs • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication • Collaboration

  14. . The DSC Way In the classroom. How we want our class to be.

  15. Students Develop 21st Century Skills by • Working with a partner • Learning and using cooperative structures • Learning and using social skills • Discussing their work • Solving problems

  16. Lesson on Inference - Grade 6 1.34 • Focus: Inferring About Causes and Effects • Students have experienced: • Exploring expository text (text features & questioning) • Analyzing literature • Making inferences in literature and poetry

  17. Grade 6 Lesson - Days 1 and 2 • Day 1: Read-aloud • Class brainstorms prompts to extend conversation • Teacher introduces and reads Train to Somewhere • Students discuss plot, setting, and characters in the story • Students reflect on partner conversations • Day 2: Strategy Lesson • Teacher reviews prompts to extend conversation • Teacher highlights clues to inferences in Train to Somewhere • Partners discuss inferences at various stops in the story

  18. Grade 6 Lesson - Days 3 and 4 • Day 3: Guided Strategy Practice • Teacher reviews prompts to extend conversation • Partners work with an excerpt to explore causes in text • Class discusses excerpt together • Day 4: Independent Strategy Practice • Students read texts at their independent reading level • Teacher models “Stop and Ask Why Questions” • Students reread to ask why questions in their own books • Partners use the questions to discuss their books

  19. View the Video with a Partner • With your partner, decide who will focus on • The students’ thinking and behavior • The teacher’s actions

  20. Video Discussion Questions • What did you notice about students’ thinking and behavior? • How did the teacher support students’ thinking and behavior? • How might this approach help students develop the 4 Cs? - Creativity and Innovation - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - Communication - Collaboration

  21. . Critical Thinking The Power of the Read Aloud

  22. . Critical Thinking “What in the text made you think that?”

  23. . Communication & Collaboration Responding in Pairs or Groups

  24. . Creativity Reading & Writing Independently

  25. Social Values • Responsibility • Respect • Caring • Fairness • Helpfulness

  26. Explicitly Teach Cooperative Structures • Think, Pair, Share • Turn to Your Partner • Think, Pair, Write • Heads Together • Group Brainstorming

  27. Discussion Prompts: Explicitly Taught • “I agree with _______ because…” • “I disagree with _______ because…” • “In addition to what _______ said, I think…” • “I heard you say ________. Did I get that right?”

  28. 4th Grade “First Days” and “Mama Sewing” • Genre: Personal Narrative • Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir • By Eloise Greenfield and Leslie Jones Little

  29. Quick-Write: Early Memories • If you were to write a story about your own “remembered life,” what memories could you write about?

  30. Writing Time • Write about an early memory. • Write about anything you want.

  31. Lesson Reflection • How might this lesson help students develop their writing? • What social skills might students need to participate in this lesson?

  32. Dual Goals of an Effective Writing Program • To teach students to write skillfully, creatively, abundantly, and with motivation in various genres • To teach students to work together and to help them develop socially and ethically

  33. Best Practices in Writing Instruction • Building intrinsic motivation • Abundant writing practice • Learning from published works and authors • Developing writing in the primary grades • Guided support through each step of the writing process • Learning skills and conventions when most helpful • Collaboration, sharing, and conferring

  34. Video: Grade 1 Writing Stories About Me • Students have already experienced units on • The Writing Community (5 weeks) • Getting Ideas (6 weeks) • Telling More (4 weeks)

  35. Unit 4: Writing Stories About Me (Personal Narrative) • In Week 1, students • Explored stories with a Beginning, Middle and End • Wrote stories of their own • In Week 2, students will: • Revisit Chrysanthemum to explore feelings in writing • Write stories that express feelings • Learn how to Tell More by adding details

  36. View the video • Decide with your partner who will focus on • The students’ thinking and behavior • The teacher’s actions

  37. Discuss Video • What did you notice about the students’ learning and behavior? • How did the teacher’s actions impact the students’ learning and behavior?

  38. . The DSC Way Partners give and get ideas

  39. Collaborating Through the Writing Process • Prewriting • Drafting • Revising • Proofreading • Publishing

  40. High Quality Read-aloud Texts • Immerse students in a genre • Provide models for specific aspects of craft • Demonstrate how professional authors approach writing • Stimulate imagination and fuel motivation

  41. . The DSC Way Audience and Feedback

  42. Students Develop 21st Century Skills by • Working with a partner • Learning and using cooperative structures • Learning and using social skills • Discussing their work • Solving problems

  43. Children who feel connected thrive. • You see them: • Listening to one another • Reaching agreement • Considering other points of view • Being respectful • Explaining their thinking • Asking questions • Supporting their own reasoning • Taking personal responsibility • Achieving more academically - and they like it!

  44. .Wha The DSC Way What resonated with you?

  45. Class Meeting • What did you learn or experience today that you’ll take back into your classroom this year?

  46. What questions do you have? wendy_williamson@devstu.org

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