K-12 Differentiated Instruction for 21st Century Skills
This training results in greater teacher success and student interest, initiative and performance
Educators know that it is important to ensure that the students are getting a modern education; yet, there is some confusion about which 21st Century skills are most important and critical. This training clarifies what the agreed upon 21st Century Skill Sets and Capacities are and provides a framework for teaching those skills and capacities through differentiated instruction, resulting in greater teacher success and student interest, initiative and performance.
This interactive training focuses on two intersecting practices: 1) the four 21st Century skill sets and seven capacities; and 2) the brain-based TLC: Teacher Learning Choices Model for differentiating instruction using student learning styles, student interests and/or student readiness levels.
Participants will …
- review the four 21st Century skill sets of: 1) High Productivity, 2) Inventive Thinking, 3) Digital Age Multicultural Literacy; and 4) Effective Collaboration.
- review the seven 21st Century Capacities of: 1) Perseverance & Resiliency, 2) Relationships & Connections, 3) Learning & Learning How to Learn, 4) Inquiry & Problem Solving, 5) Innovation & New Knowledge, 6) Rigor & Relevance, and 7) Application of Knowledge.
- get a clear understanding of what differentiated instruction is and is not.
- better understand that in differentiated instruction, content/process/assessment can remain the same for all students, can be extended for all students, or can be totally different for all students.
- better understand learning styles, student interests, and the various forms of student readiness levels and how these provide a structure for differentiated instruction.
- learn that differentiated instruction focuses on VARIETY: It can involve variety within the same activity by including multiple student styles, interests; or, readiness levels; or, it can involve a variety of activities by providing choices within boundaries.
- use the TLC Model to teach the four 21st Century skill sets and the seven capacities.
