21st Century Skills & Instructional Practices

 

 

 

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This year's PLPs and SMART goals had to identify both an instructional strategy and how a targetted technology use would support that strategy. 

 

 

To assist staff working on PLPs and SMART goals the SD/Technology committee planning members identified potential skills and practices that could be incorporated into teaching and learning based on session descriptions.  Depending on a teacher's student needs and individual creativity other skills and practices could certainly apply.

 

All staff, the Board and many students participated in the 2006 enGauge survey.  The data collected (see last image below, left) shows our 2006 current priority and our preferred priority. The survey indicated an overwhelming desire to move forward with 21st Century skills.  The Year 1 focus of the 2007-10 MSAD 56 Technology Plan is to increase awareness of and encourage incorporation of 21st Century skills into our teaching and learning. The image below shows the four "big ideas" of 21st Century Learning with their subcomponents.

 

21st Century Skills	Instructional Practices
	Researchers have identified nine instructional strategies that are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and across all grade levels.  Although there are other instructional strategies we used those from What Works in Classroom Instruction by Robert Marzano. 1. Identifying similarities and differences    2. Summarizing and note taking 3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition 4. Homework and practice 5. Nonlinguistic representations 6. Cooperative learning 7. Setting objectives and providing feedback 8. Generating and testing hypotheses 9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers