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21st Century Skills
NDCTP
Roles
Meetings & Misc.
Programs, Tools & Models
Literacies
100
These prepare students to live and work successfully in our fast-paced, technology-rich, and interconnected world.
What are 21st Century Skills?
100
An instructional coach whose primary professional responsibility is to bring practices that have been studied using a variety of research methods into classrooms by working with teachers rather than students. They may spend some time working with groups of teachers, but they set aside a significant portion of their time to offer classroom modeling, supportive feedback, and specific observations of individual teaching practices.
What is a Curriculum Technology Partner or CTP?
100
A required 3-hour workshop taking place today for all CTPs and Grant Administrators. It will cover the basic goals and requirements of the Title II-D grants.
What is the Grant Kickoff?
100
A social bookmarking service that allows one to tag, save, manage and share Web pages all in one place that can be easily accessed from any computer via the Internet.
What is Delicious?
100
The ability to know and understand scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision-making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity.
What is Scientific Literacy?
200
The ability to recognize and understand relationships among international organizations, nation-states, public and private economic entities, socio-cultural groups, and individuals across the globe.
What is Global Awareness?
200
Where a teacher and CTP deliver instruction jointly. The purpose is for CTP to influence teacher practice. Both teach a whole class lesson and both monitor student work.
What is Co-Teaching?
200
A required 1.5-hour meeting via video that will take place in December for all CTPs and Grant Administrators. It will cover the tools that will be used during the INSTEP process as well as other guidance for CTPs.
What is the INSTEP Process Meeting?
200
A software application that allows you to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with others.
What is Skype?
200
The ability to identify economic issues, analyze incentives, examine the consequences of changes in economic conditions and public policies, collect and organize economic evidence, and weigh costs against benefits.
What is Economic Literacy?
300
The ability to cooperatively interact with one or more individuals to solve problems, create novel products, or learn and master content.
What is Collaboration or Teaming?
300
A role of a CTP where areas are identified for instructional focus and problem solving based on student data.
What is a Collaborator?
300
A required one-day training that will take place in January for all CTPs. Pedagogy and skills will be covered.
What is Bootcamp?
300
One of the communication tools that will be used in the grant process. It is a full-featured blogging and podcasting platform, a social network, and may also be used as an online learning management system.
What is EduSocial?
300
The ability to interpret, use, appreciate, and create images and video using both conventional and 21st century media in ways that advance thinking, decision-making, communication, and learning.
What is Visual Literacy?
400
The ability to use digital technology and communication tools to access, manage, integrate, evaluate and create information in order to function in a knowledge society.
What is Digital-Age Literacy?
400
A role of a CTP where self-directed thinking about instruction based on reflection and student outcomes is encouraged.
What is Reflective Coaching?
400
Something that obstructs or impedes learning and/or progress.
What is a barrier?
400
A program developed by EduTech to assist teachers in integrating technology and 21st Century Skills in their curriculum.
What is INSTEP?
400
The ability to know what technology is, how it works, what purposed it can serve, and how it can be used efficiently and effectively to achieve specific goals.
What is Technological Literacy?
500
The ability to develop intellectual, informational, or material products that serve authentic purposes and occur as a result of using real-world tools to solve or communicate about real-world problems. These include persuasive communications in any media, synthesis of resources into more usable forms, or refinement of questions that build upon what is known to advance one’s own and others’ understanding.
What is Relevant/High-Quality Product Creation?
500
A role of a CTP where a particular set of instructional strategies, curriculum, procedures or policies are implemented.
What is a Consultant?
500
The heart of the curriculum. It is the essence of what you believe students should examine and know in the short time they have with you. It will always answer the question, "Why do I need to know this?"
What are Essential Questions?
500
A research-based instructional model developed by Pearson and Gallagher (1993) where the responsibility for task completion shifts gradually over time from the CTP to the teacher.
What is Gradual Release Model?
500
The ability to evaluate information across a range of media, recognize when information is needed, locate, synthesize and use it effectively, and accomplish this using technology, communication networks and electronic resources.
What is Information Literacy?