2. 21st Century Skills Project
Mission Driven – Vision Led
Inspired by NESA FLC 2009 and 2012
Tara Waudby @tarawaudby

3. Take Away Today Why Measure Soft Skills?
How to begin defining soft- skills as a faculty
Using technology as tool for collaboration
Practical Resources
Why focus on Mission?
Comparing Definitions
The Project
Tools, Tips, Discussion

4. NETS
Common Core
21st Century Skills
Accreditation
Mission is Everywhere!

5. What is your Mission?
The American School of Kuwait inspires life-long learners empowered to excel in American higher education and the global community as productive, compassionate citizens.
Practice Compassion Make a Difference Learn for Life
What are you really asking students when you say this?
What can you measure here?
How do you define it?

6. What does your Mission look like?
What soft-skills are present?
Can you define them?
Can everyone agree?
How will you measure it?

7. Individual
Pair
Group
Creativity

8. Creativity

9. What behaviors lead to learning?
How do we define
student achievement?
As a teacher, how do you define student achievement?
Where do the common core, our Mission, and 21st Century Skills fit in with your priorities?
What is the student achievement outcome?
Are we preparing students for routine or non-routine jobs?
Disney World Analogy
How do we get them to line up for an hour for a 3-minute ride, and then want to do it again?
Remember the learning video? The point was to show that learning involves a number of things – challenge, hard work, frustration and the ultimate goal is autonomy and transfer
Before anything, we have to be on the same page with regards to achievement. How do we define student achievement?
What behaviors lead to learning?

10.
Measuring What Matters – Digital Story

11. “Without a commitment to Mission, we don’t really have a school…”
“Schools exist to cause learning…”
Schooling by Design & Wiggins

13. Barkley Backward Design Process
LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR
PLC & COLLABORATION
TEACHER BEHAVIOR
STUDENT BEHAVIOR
Instructional Coaching with the End in Mind
What is our definition of student achievement that drives our work?
i.e. literacy
What student behavior needs to be initiated or increased to gain the desired student achievement?
i.e. reading for pleasure
What teacher behaviors are most likely to generate the desired student behaviors?
i.e. independent reading; book studies
What changes need to occur in how we work with each other to support needed teacher behaviors?
i.e. CPT – moving beyond to interdisciplinary collaboration
What leadership behaviors are needed to support desired staff, teacher, parent and student behaviors?
i.e. structures; support
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT

17. What ideas does this generate for you?
What possibilities?
What questions?
Concerns?  
Rubrics and Resources

19. Backward Design Process
Practice Compassion - Make a Difference - Learn for Life
Backward Design Process
Identify
Desired
Results
Determine
Acceptable
Evidence
Barkley, Arpin, Wiggins
Plan
Learning
Experiences

20. Connection & Purpose

21. Ongoing Process of Learning
Planning with Mission in mind
Measure process and product
Teaching and modeling learning behaviors
Refine existing rubrics & assessments
Create new assessments
Collaborating, Sharing & Communication
Ongoing Process of Learning
Reflecting Back, Moving Forward

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