21st Century Skills

21 Century Skills
st
in the Classroom
21st Century Skills Framework
Core
Content and
Outcomes
Support
Systems
Elements of 21st Century Learning
21st Century Themes
• Global Awareness
• Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
• Civic Literacy
• Health Literacy
• Environmental Literacy
Global Awareness
“BRINGING THE OUTSIDE WORLD INTO THE
CLASSROOM”
• Using 21st century skills to understand and address global issues.
• Learning from and working collaboratively with individuals representing diverse
cultures, religions and lifestyles in a spirit of mutual respect and open dialogue in
personal, work and community contexts.
• Having the ability to utilize non-English languages as a tool for understanding
other nations and cultures.
Financial, Economic, Business &
Entrepreneurial Literacy
“YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOMETHING TO GET
SOMETHING”
• Knowing how to make appropriate personal economic choices.
• Understanding the role of the economy and the role of business in the
economy.
• Using entrepreneurial skills to enhance workplace productivity and
career options.
Civic Literacy
“WE ARE PART OF A DEMOCRACY AND WE HAVE A
VOICE”
• Being an informed citizen to participate effectively in government.
• Exercising the rights and obligations of citizenship at local, state, national and
global levels.
• Understanding the local and global implications of civic decisions.
Health Literacy
“THE DECISIONS WE MAKE ON HOW WE TAKE CARE OF
OURSELVES, IMPACT EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES”
• Having the ability to access health information and services,
navigate health institutions and act as an effective advocate to
improve health for self, family and/or community.
• Understanding preventive physical and mental health measures,
including proper diet, nutrition, exercise, risk avoidance and stress
reduction.
• Demonstrating understanding of national and international health.
Environmental Literacy
• WE USE RESOURCES AND RESOURCES ARE

LIMITED
• WE CREATE WASTE AND WASTE TAKES SPACE

Life and Career Skills
• Leadership
• Ethics
• Accountability
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Personal Productivity
• Personal Responsibility
• People Skills
• Initiative and Self-direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Leadership
• Using interpersonal and problem-solving skills to influence more than one person toward a
goal.
• Having the ability to leverage strengths of others to accomplish a common goal.
• Ethics
• Demonstrating integrity and ethical behavior in personal, workplace and community
contexts.
• Accountability
• Setting and meeting high standards and goals for one’s self and others.
• Adaptability
• Adapting to varied roles and responsibilities.
• Tolerating ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Productivity
• Utilizing time efficiently and manage workload.
• Being punctual and reliable.
• Personal Responsibility
• Exercising personal responsibility and flexibility in personal, workplace and community
contexts.
• People Skills
• Working appropriately and productively with others.
• Self Direction
• Monitoring one’s own understanding and learning needs.
• Demonstrating initiative to advance professional skill levels.
• Having the ability to define, prioritize and complete tasks without direct oversight.
• Demonstrating commitment to learning as a lifelong process.
• Social Responsibility
• Acting responsibly with the interests of the larger community in mind.
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Communication
• Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Collaboration Skills
• Contextual Learning Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Exercising sound reasoning in understanding.
• Making complex choices.
• Understanding the interconnections among systems.
• Framing, analyzing and solving problems.
• Communication
• Articulating thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively.
• Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Demonstrating originality and inventiveness in work.
• Developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others.
• Being open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives.
Learning and Innovation Skills
• Collaboration Skills
• Demonstrating ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Being willing to be helpful and make necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal.
• Contextual Learning Skills

• Having the ability to take advantage of education in a variety of contexts both inside and
outside the classroom; understanding that knowledge is acquired within a context.
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy
Information, Media & Technology Skills
• Information and Media Literacy Skills

• Understanding, managing and creating effective oral, written and/or
multimedia communication in a variety of forms and contexts.
• Analyzing, accessing, managing, integrating, evaluating and creating
information in a variety of forms and media.
• ICT Literacy (Information, Communications and Technology)
• Using technology in the course of attaining and utilizing 21st century skills.
DIGITAL LITERACY
According to UNESCO, DIGITAL LITERACY is the
ability to access, manage, understand, integrate,
communicate, evaluate and create information safely
and appropriately through digital technologies for
employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship.
DIGITAL LITERACY
• Digital Responsibility- knowing how to stay safe and act appropriately online.
• Digital Productivity – knowing which technologies, tools and techniques to use
and how to organise, share and protect digital information.
• Digital Information Literacy- being able to find, critically evaluate and use
digital information safely.
• Digital Collaboration- sharing knowledge and collaborating with others to
complete tasks and solve problems.
• Digital Creativity- Being able to use digital media to complete tasks, generate
content and develop opportunities.
• Digital Learning – understanding how technology can extend learning
opportunities.
Performance Task #1
• Pub Mat on promoting ICT-related skills
• Create a group of 3-4 members, and create a publication material that
contains your advocacy on how to promote ICT-related skills.
• Post it on Facebook with a caption of not more than five (5) sentences.
• Submit the pub mat and the screenshot of the post in the designated
folder in MS Teams.
Performance Task #1
• Pub Mat on promoting ICT-related skills
CRITERIA:
- Content – 50 points
-Creativity – 30 points
-Grammar/Organization/Mechanics – 10 points
-Promptness – 5 points

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21st Century Themes

• WE USE RESOURCES AND RESOURCES ARE

• WE CREATE WASTE AND WASTE TAKES SPACE

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Contextual Learning Skills

• Information and Media Literacy Skills

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