1. Super Skills for 21st Century Learners
Toni Rader
Department of Professional Learning

2. Working Agreements Ask Questions and Construct Answers
Engage Fully and Embrace Discomfort
Integrate and Construct New Information
Open Your Mind to Diverse Views and Value Others’ Strengths
Utilize What You Learn, Unleash it and Feed it Back

3. Self-Regulation
Notice where you are at any given time and make sure you support yourself by asking questions, note taking, stretching yourself.
Moments of Validation
Moments of Reminding
Moments of New Information

4. Agenda At your table, spend 4 minutes talking:
Given the agenda for today,…
What are you most intrigued by or looking forward to? OR
What do you think will be useful for you?

5. Super Skills Inventory
What “superhero” skills do you have?
(What are your strengths as a teacher, parent, etc.?)
If you could wish any of those super skills on your students, which ones would you like them to have?

6. Super Skills for the 21st Century

7. Super Skills in Your Classroom

8. Video Reflection At your table:
Discuss the ideas from the videos that resonated with you.
List some of the themes from your group’s discussion and be prepared to share them with the whole group.

9. Jigsaw to Learn Each team member is assigned a reading.
Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity
In your expert groups:
Read the material, and then converse about its meaning.
Determine what ideas you will share and how you will share the ideas in your home groups.
Return to your home groups and share what has been learned in the expert groups.

10. Allow Students to Think

11. Super Skills for the 21st Century
Discuss with a colleague…
As a teacher, how do allow your students to communicate, think critically and creatively, and collaborate?

12. Discussion Format Menu 20 “Appetizer” 20 “Soup” or “Salad”
20 “Main Course”
25 “Dessert” and “Digestion” (Synthesis)
15 Share whole group
Seating Arrangement
Every participant visits each table to answer essential questions
Choose the order so as to ‘mix up’ the groups each time

13. Tables & Questions Tables: Questions: Collaboration Critical Thinking
Communication
Creativity
Questions:
What ideas do you have about integrating this skill into your instruction?
What challenges do you think your students may encounter when learning this skill?
How might you lessen those challenges?

16. Evaluation What: Thank you and evaluation Time: 11:20-11:30
Facilitator: Karen Perisho
Talking points:
Thank you so much for your conversation, questions and participation in today’s Nevada K.I.D.S Read EdCamp around Literacy.
We truly appreciate and utilize your feedback. Please take a moment to use the QR code on your agenda to complete the evaluation for this session.
Once you get into the evaluation you will choose NVKR EdCamp General Session under question 1.
If you do not have a QR code reader on your phone, you can download one quickly from the app store, use a friend’s phone at your table or complete the survey using the evaluation link that will be sent to your later this week.
Evaluation