21st Century Skills
ELLevate Unit Components
Digital Assets
Innovation
Market Needs/Value Drivers
100
They are know as the 4 Cs.
What are collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity.
100
This component can be done as many times as needed to establish readiness for the unit lesson.
What is Get Ready.
100
This digital feature includes multiple ways to input data, such as automatic grading of digital assessments, digital scantron answer sheets, and manual input.
What is the digital grade book.
100
This allows for course customization. Teachers can upload their own resources and add live links to additional audio and video files.
What is an open platform.
100
This instruction ensures that students are prepared for the workplace as well as the classroom.
What are 21st Century Skills.
200
This involves analytical and evaluative thinking.
What is critical thinking.
200
This component involves a read along as students gain familiarity with unit terms.
What is Vocabulary.
200
This is what makes Elevate English a true hybrid,print and digital, program.
What are the audio and video assets that support the lesson components in each unit.
200
Because of this format for resources, the teacher can choose specific content for individual students within a class, hide content, and make targeted assignments from the various modules of the 6 levels of ELLevate English, or from his/her own resources uploaded to the platform.
What are fully configurable resources.
200
This feature, found at the end of each module, is becoming more and more important in the Adult Education market due to the need to reinforce collaborative skills.
What is Project Based Learning/ the module project.
300
In the workplace, this skill helps workers innovate and solve problems in new ways.
What is creativity.
300
This component supports proper intonation and stress.
What is Pronunciation.
300
These program components provide critically important data and information about student progress. They include module and placement, as well as workbook assignments and are run on the Engrade platform.
What are digital assessments.
300
This design feature allows teachers to target instruction and provide students with a more personalized path to English proficiency.
What is a modular format.
300
The ability to effectively and efficiently tailor the course to meet individual students' needs is characteristic of this type of instruction.
What is differentiated instruction.
400
Often the most sought after quality by employers, this skill involves the ability to work with others effectively.
What is collaboration.
400
This component includes audio features to support students with fluent models of English.
What is Listening.
400
When completed digitally, the student workbook and assessments provide the teacher with real time data due to this digital feature.
What is auto-grading.
400
As students complete digitally interactive assignments on their phones, tablets, or computers they are developing this important type of literacy for the workplace.
What is digital literacy
400
This type of program makes efficient use of both digital and print resources.
What is a hybrid program.
500
Whether in speaking or writing, this skill is a must for success in the workplace.
What is communication.
500
These components are dependent on the online audio files found on the Connect2 platform.
What are Get Ready, Vocabulary, Listening, Pronunciation, Conversation, and Reading.
500
Students interact with these digital assets in teams as well as individually in a format that provides for enjoyable practice time.
What are the digital individual and team games.
500
This feature allows students to practice creative skills while applying what they have learned.
What is the Creative Zone.
500
Coursework that includes multi-media and digital assets provides for this type of learning.
What is multi-dimentional learning.