The 4Cs Research Series Skills for Today, is a series jointly released by Pearson and P21. Each paper summarizes what is currently known about teaching and assessing one of the 4Cs: Collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication. Our partnership on this series signifies a commitment to helping educators, policymakers, and employers understand how best to support students in developing the skills needed to succeed in college, career, and life. Available now: Subscribe to our newsletter and be notified of future publications. In collaboration with research partners at the University of Connecticut, P21 released a research series on key aspects of conceptualizing, developing, and assessing each of the 4Cs of Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity in 2015. Each of the briefs provides:
Examine What Makes a Literacy in the May/June Issue A few years ago, at an ALA Annual Conference, I found myself experiencing a very peculiar day. Besides my standard sessions on information literacy, I attended sessions on civic literacy and news literacy, as well. There were conversations in hallways about digital literacy, but also about disciplinary literacy and financial literacy. In the May/June issue of Knowledge Quest, we endeavor to shed light on why and how to teach specific literacies and to look at the larger question of how these seemingly disparate areas might jigsaw nicely into a meaningful and attainable school library program. Reference Thomas, Sue, et al. About the Guest Editors Tasha Bergson-Michelson is the instructional and programming librarian at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California. Jole Seroff is director of library and information services at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California. Read their Guest Editor Column “What Makes a Literacy?” Table of Contents Features Online Exclusive Articles Column Departments
Thinking Palette : Artful Thinking The framework takes the image of an artist’s palette as its central metaphor. Typically, a palette is made up of a relatively small number of basic colors which can be used and blended in a great variety of ways. The artful thinking palette is comprised of 6 thinking dispositions – 6 basic colors, or forms, of intellectual behavior – that have dual power: They are powerful ways of exploring works of art, and powerful ways of exploring subjects across the school curriculum. Click here for a Spanish version of the Artful Thinking Palette. The Artful Thinking palette comes alive through the use of “thinking routines.”
The 4 skills you need to become a global leader For many people in their twenties and thirties, career advancement trumps any quality in an employer. Why? Because the higher your function, the more opportunities you have to make a difference in your community. But what if we took a step back, and looked at the skills required to get there? “I picked up four things from my twenties that helped me hugely later in life,” he said. These skills, he said, allowed him to “move between government, private sector and academic life easily”. So how can young people looking to progress their career gain these skills nowadays? Make choices that give you flexibility “First, make sure to make choices that give you flexibility. Be aware that things don’t always go up “Second, be aware that things don’t always go up. Get as much exposure to other cultures as you can “Third, get as much exposure to other cultures as you can. Understand the importance of communication “And finally, understand the importance of communication. Share Written by