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How do we prepare students for 21st century learning? The Common Core Standards call for "more rigor, complex reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking than traditional learning." How do we teach so that students meet these new standards? What professional development will need to be done so that teachers may provides their students with the necessary skills? As the titleof the article states, "How do we prepare students for compelex futures?"
The post looks at a variety of materials that discuss skills and strategies that one might consider. In 2008 Tony Wagner suggested 7 areas that were critical for students to learn:
* Problem-solving and critical thinking
* Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
* Agility and adaptability
* Initiative and entrepreneurship
* Effective written and oral communication
* Accessing and analyzing information
* Curiosity and imagination
Materials from David Conley regarding "key cognitive strategies", Costa and Kallick and habits of mind, and other dispositions are also discussed.
The last section of the post looks at "a new paradigm: on-going, formative, self-assessment."
