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Boost your students' 21st century skills
How do we measure students' inquiry, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities so that we know they are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century? John Barell explains how inquiry leads to problem-solving and provides specific steps for pre, formative and summative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills. Included are examples that show how to use today's technology in the classroom and how to use inquiry to develop and assess students' ability to:
Think critically and creatively; Collaborate with others; Become self-directed learners; Adapt and become resourceful; Develop a sense of leadership, responsibility, and global awareness
The authors challenge teachers to reflect on their own learning, thinking, and problem-solving processes as well as those of their students. The text provides frameworks for monitoring students' progress and guidelines for communicating with parents. Teachers will find examples from all grade levels that show how to observe and assess students' growth in their development of 21st century capacities, making this a timely and valuable resource.
“My Inquiry Skills Shot Through the Roof!”
“My Inquiry Skills Shot Through the Roof!”
Kerry Faber's sixth-grade classroom in Edmonton (Ekota School) is set up in a U-shaped configuration with an open area right in the middle. It is in this magical square that so many adventuresome learning experiences have taken place over the years:
- exploring the continent of Antarctica,
- constructing an aboriginal village,
- re-creating a fur trading fort,
- building a medieval castle, and
- reconstructing—perhaps for the first time in Canada!—a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's ideal city.
This is not your normal classroom, because Kerry Faber is an extraordinary educator who always challenges her students to exceed their own high expectations, to become the developers of their own learning and understanding through a wide variety of projects like those listed above.
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