http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ This website is an intriguing resource for all teachers of the 21st century. "The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education and to ensure that students emerge from our schools with the skills needed to be effective citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century." (P21 Website) The site offers information, and guides to be sure that educators have the resources they need to prepare their students for the current workforce and to make changes to their classroom instruction when needed.
I do feel that I would use parts of this website as a tool in my first grade classroom. I thought that the online tools portion of the site was the most valuable. "Route 21" is one of the programs offered that’s goal is to "provide an online interactive tool that demonstrates how 21st century skills can be supported through standards, professional development, assessments and curriculum and instruction." This is a resource that I will be sharing with my district because I think it would benefit al lK-12 grade teachers and aid staff.
To be honest the site as a whole feels quite overwhelming to me. There is so much information that is presented and it is quite difficult to take it all in. I do feel that the information is valid and has importance with what we are doing in our schools each day. I strongly believe that we need to do more to prepare our students for the workforce of the 21st century. My district is making an effort to do this and has already presented many different informational resources, most is online, that they would like us to view. In order for me to use and apply information like this, I feel time needs to be set aside to read through everything and have discussions with colleagues. I am trying to focus on quality versus quantity in an attempt to start taking full advantage of some really amazing resources that are available to me. The partnership for the 21st century website would be a great website for our staff to review during a staff meeting or professional development time so we could properly discuss how we plan to use the research to make changes in our day to day routines.
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Do you think this information will be useful to you in your school system? Is it already in place in your district?
ReplyDeleteThis information would be very useful in my school district. We are not currently specifically looking at what we need for a quality 21st century education. I believe that is the goal of all the staff in my district but a lot of the information on the website is new to me as it would be too many of the teachers and administrators in my district. I feel that the most useful information on the site would be the two programs located in the "online learning tools". I have already been thinking about how those programs can assist me in making improvement to my plans and overall goals for my students.
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