Transcript 21st Century Skills and Dance Education

Dance Educators Training Institute
Monday, August 5, 2013
UMBC
Suzie Henneman
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How the “21st Century Skills” came to be…
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President’s New Commission for Skills for the Workplace –
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Tough Choices, Tough Times
•http://www.ncee.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Executive-Summary.pdf
•A Nation of Opportunity: Building America's 21st
Century Workforce
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=key_workpla
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This is a world in which a very high
level of preparation in reading, writing,
speaking, mathematics, science,
literature, history and the arts will be
an indispensable foundation for
everything that comes after for most
members of the workforce.
The best employers the world over
will be looking for the most competent,
most creative and most innovative people
on the face of the earth and will be willing
to pay them top dollar for their services.
This will be true not just for the top
professionals and managers, but up and
down the length and breadth of the
workforce. Those countries that produce
the most important new products and
services can capture a premium in world
markets that will enable them to pay high
wages to their citizens.
—School Reform, Improvement and
Accountability: Schools, school districts,
and the States should pursue a wide range of
reforms to improve student academic
achievement, focusing their efforts on aligning
curricula, assessments, teacher
professional development and management
practices with rigorous academic content
and student performance standards.
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http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_arts_map_final.pdf
From Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
Innovation
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Information,
Communication, and
Technology Literacy
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Flexibility and
Adaptability
Initiative and Selfdirection
Social And Crosscultural Skills
Productivity and
Accountability
Leadership and
Responsibility
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Critical thinking and problem solving
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity and innovation
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How are the 21st Century Skills
addressed in dance education?
What, in dance training/education, is not
addressing the 21st Century Skills; where are the
gaps?
2. What are the issues, barriers?
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Results of NDEO Gap Analysis: Analysis of The Standards for
Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts and The 21st Century Skills
http://nccas.wikispaces.com/space/content
Standards for Learning and Teaching
Dance in the Arts
NDEO: National Dance Education Organization
http://nccas.wikispaces.com/
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What are the gaps and how can we, as
dance educators, address the gaps?
How are you going to apply the information
from this presentation and discussion in
your teaching?
1. Satisfy the changing customer's or
client's needs. Your customer may be
either external or internal and your
output either a product or service. Most
times customer satisfaction will require
a process of innovation through teamoriented collaboration.
2. Become a creative, effective and
efficient problem solver utilizing critical
thinking skills to meet the customer's
need in a response time that provides a
sustainable competitive advantage
through added comparative value and
service.
3. In order to perform effectively, in an
increasingly multicultural society, it is
important to also have a global
perspective with cultural understanding
and sensitivity.
4. One must also be motivated and
persistent for the right reasons; realizing
that you can increase your motivation
substantially to face unforeseen future
challenges. The root of all effective
motivation is a healthy amount of selfesteem.
5. Manage and take responsibility for one’s
own career, including multiple and
varied job assignments with an
international perspective, to help
develop the needed competencies. A
formal career plan, along with feedback
from candid and trusted friends for
realism, and a mentor to assist you in
navigating career moves is also critical.
6. Finally, live a balanced and healthy life
with time devoted to family and outside
work activities, a skill that is now
recognized as essential to life and career
success.
Daniel Pink
“What’s important
now are the
characteristics of the
brain’s right
hemisphere: artistry,
empathy,
inventiveness, bigpicture thinking.
These skills have
become first among
equals in a whole
range of business
fields. “
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.p21.org/
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21st Century Skills Map THE ARTS
http://www.p21.org/storage/document
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National Teaching Standards for
Dance Education
http://www.nj.gov/education/njpep/class
room/arts_assessment/worddocs/Nat
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National Career Development
Association
http://associationdatabase.com/aws/N
CDA/pt/sd/news_article/34201/_PAR
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NEA :Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.nea.org/home/34888.htm
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National Dance Education Organization
www.ndeo.org
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National Coalition for Core Arts
Standards
http://nccas.wikispaces.com/
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Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind
http://www.danpink.com/whole-newmind
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