CIF+and+21st+Century+Skills

**CIF and 21st Century Learning **  **Every student reads, writes, thinks and talks in every classroom everyday.**

**Lesson Synopsis **  Relationship between CIF and 21st Century Skills **Big Idea ** **The skills learned in high school will effect students' success in life.** **Learning Outcomes - Students will be able to:** 
 * 1. Make connections between the CIF and 21st Century Skills. ||
 * 2. Use concept of 21st Century skills to assess rigor in lesson design. ||
 * 3.<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> **Identify and plan activities that require students to use this skill to solve a problem in the content areas.** ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**21st Century Skills-Participants identify at least 3 used in this lesson.** <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">1. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">2. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">3. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;">**Lesson Activities** <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Guiding Questions <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">How do the instructional strategies correlate to 21st Century Skills? How might you ensure students are required to use 21st Century Skills daily?

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questioning <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">CT <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Scaffolding <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">WTL || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Provide instructions for activity and materials needed. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Students will write for 5 minutes expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas about adding rigor to lesson plans. Swap partners and create response to: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">How did we add rigor to lesson plans? || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">15 min. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Step 1 ** |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Review from last workshop adding rigor to lesson design ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Instructional Strategy ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Teacher Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Student Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Time (min) ** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">CGW

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">CGW <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questioning <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Scaffolding <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">CT || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Provide articles, Free Form Mapping protocol || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">As a whole group, make a list of skills you consider 21st Century. Record on poster. With a partner read Rigor Redefined and The Road to 21st Century Learning, and Keys to 21st Century Learning. Participate in the Free Form protocol. Post visual representations and share with group. Return to the brainstormed list revise/add. || <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">30 min. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Step 2 ** ||||||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Instructional Strategy ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Teacher Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Student Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Time (min) ** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">WTL

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">CT <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Questioning || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Provide list of skills and scaffold for poster Strategies and Outcomes || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Review and discuss Strategies and Outcomes, then complete the Strategies and Outcomes chart. Share responses with group. How will you ensure students are experiencing 21st century skills? **What classroom activities would require students to use this skill to solve a problem in your content area?** ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Step 3 ** ||||||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Instructional Strategy ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Teacher Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Student Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Time (min) ** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">WTL

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Assessments of Learning Outcomes**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Lesson Closing ** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Instructional Strategy ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Closing Teacher Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Closing Student Activity ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">Time (min) ** ||
 * ||  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Return to lesson plan examined by partner. Identify the 21st Century Skills students will experience during the lesson. Write for 5 minutes, how did your lesson today require students to use a 21st Century Skill? ||   ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Resources: <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Rigor Redefined Article <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">21st Century Skills List <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Free Form Mapping Protocol <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">
 * # <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Chart of skills and connections to the CIF created by participates
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Identify skills used in this lesson.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">What classroom activities would require students to use this skill to solve a problem in your content area? ||