Module 2:

21st CENTURY SKILL CATEGORIES

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Identify the categories of 21st century skills

2. Apply the 21st century skills in preparing, planning and developing a lesson
3. Cite ways on how to enhance the 21st century skills of learners
4. Explain how 21st century skills be integrated in the teaching-learning process
5. Cite implications of 21st century skills to educators and to pre-service teacher
preparation
6. Draw relevant life lessons and significant values from the personal experience in
attaining 21st century skills
7. Analyze research abstract on 21st century skills and its implications on the
teaching-learning process
8. Craft a curriculum plan matrix imbued with 21 st century learning outcomes

INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION

Group Mapping Activity: this is a strategy where members of the class present their
prior knowledge on the topic 21st century skill categories through group
drawing/illustration.

Procedure:

1. Group the students into 4 or 5 depending on the class size.

2. Provide each group a topic on 21st century skill category to brainstorm about.
3. The group will synthesize their consolidated ideas and present in a form of
illustration or drawing in a cartolina or Manila paper using any medium of their
choice.
4. Each group will be given a chance to present the synthesis in class.
5. The class will find time for a brief reflection of the activity.

Topics to be assigned to the groups:

1. Life and Career skills

2. Information, Media and Technology skills
3. Learning and Innovation skills
4. Social and Cross-cultural skills
5. Leadership and Productivity skills
CONCEPT EXPLORATION

21st Century Skills refer to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character
traits that are deemed necessary in coping with today’s world and future careers and
workplaces. Thus, it can be applied in all academic subject areas and educational
settings throughout a student’s life.

The 21st Century Skills

The 21st Century skills may include the following:

1.) Critical thinking, problem-solving, reasoning, analysis, interpretation, synthesizing

information;
2.) Research skills and practices, interrogative questioning;
3.) Creativity, artistry, curiosity, imagination, innovation, personal expression;
4.) Perseverance, self-direction, planning, self-discipline, adaptability, initiative;
5.) Oral and written communication, public speaking and presenting, listening;
6.) Leadership, teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, facility in using virtual
workplaces;
7.) Information and communication technology (ICT) literacy, media and internet
literacy, data interpretation and analysis, computer programming;
8.) Civic, ethical, and social justice literacy;
9.) Economic and financial literacy, entrepreneurialism;
10.) Global awareness, multicultural literacy, humanitarianism;
11.) Scientific literacy and reasoning, the scientific method;
12.) Environmental and conservation literacy, ecosystem understanding; and
13.) Health and wellness literacy, including nutrition, diet, exercise, and public
health and safety,

Framework for 21st Century

According to the Partnership for 21st

Century Skills, this concept encompasses
a wide array of a body of knowledge and
skills that have to be categorized.
Moreover, this concept has been
interconnected with applied skills, cross-
curricular skills, cross-disciplinary skills,
interdisciplinary skills, transferable skills,
transversal skills, noncognitive skills and
soft skills.
The 21st century skills concept is grounded on the belief that students must be educated
in a more relevant, useful, in-demand and universally applicable manner. The idea
simply lies in the fact that students needs to be taught different skills and reflect on the
specific demand that will be placed upon them in a complex, competitive, knowledge-
based, information-age and technology-driven society. Therefore, 21 st Century
education addresses the whole child or the whole person (AACTE, 2010).

Hence, the curriculum should be designed to be interdisciplinary, integrated and project-

based. Tony Wagner (2010), in his book “The Global Achievement Gap”, advocated the
seven survival skills, namely: (1) critical thinking and problem-solving; (2) collaboration
across networks and leading by influence; (3) agility and adaptability; (4) initiative and
entrepreneurialism; (5) effective oral and written communication; (6) accessing and
analyzing information; and (7) curiosity and imagination.

The term “21st Century skills” refers to certain core competencies, such as collaboration,
digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that schools need to teach the
students for them to thrive in today’s world.

Learning and Innovation skills

These are the primary skills orchestrated in the 21 st century. They are attributes that
differentiate students who are prepared for a complex life and work environment from
those who are not. Therefore, there is a need to stress on creativity, critical thinking,
communication and collaboration in preparing learners for the future.

A.Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. These may include effectively analyzing
and evaluating evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs; and solving different kinds of
non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways.

Skill Sub-skills

1. Work together effectively in them Establish clear definitions and agreements

on the roles of partners in the collaborative
process
Keep communication open within teams to
carry out tasks
Carefully identify obstacles and address
problems cooperatively

Skill Sub-skills

2. Reason effectively Use various types of reasoning (inductive,

deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the
situation
Use systems thinking
Analyze how parts of a whole interact with
each other to produce overall outcomes in
complex systems