Assessing+21st+Century+Skills

=Session 1: Assessing 21st Century Skills= Speaker: Tony Wagner

Video – Exploratory Foundations – Quest High School; Senior Project What skills are students learning? How are they being motivated to learn? What was the teacher’s role and teacher’s accountability?
 * Understanding the problem
 * Creating the need
 * Doing it on a voluntary basis at first

Goal - get QUESTIONS answered Groupings based on student interest Produce real work for real audiences All expected to meet a minimum mastery requirement Students has large humanities blocks available for work time

Should be team-based, collaborative/onsite/ongoing Professional Development should include feedback from kids that are in-school and out of school.
 * Professional Development**

What skills are most important where you are now? Parents?
 * Key Questions:**