Core Skills Presentation Slides v1 AH

21st Century Skills
Adama
26th – 27th June 2021
British Council Ethiopia
www.britishcouncil.org 1
Objective of the training
• To create shared understanding about what 21st

Century skills are all about.
• To have a discussion on why the core skills are

important.
Introductions - facilitators
Your facilitators:
• Zenebech
• Ermias
• Bethelehem
Introductions - you
How about your roles at the MoE
• Your name
• Your title
• Something you like which begins with the first

letter of your name
Activity: Skill gaps
• What kind of young people is our education

system producing?
• What are the key skills gaps among young

people in Ethiopia?
• Discuss in groups and give feedback (10’)
What is the current reality?
Globally and in Ethiopia
The Global Learning Crisis
• Children go to school but they don’t learn!
• Education crisis is a teaching crisis.
• One big reason the learning crisis persists is that

many education systems across the developing
world have little information on who is learning
and who is not.
Learning Crisis
• More children enrolled in school ever before
• Schooling does not equal learning
• 53% of children in low and middle income countries

can’t read proficiently by age 10 (WB, 2016)
• Global learning crisis costing $129 billion a year

(UNESCO)
• ‘Going through school without learning critical

foundational skills is a tragedy’ UNESCO
www.britishcouncil.org 920/02/2018
All children learning
“What’s the point in an education if children emerge

after years in school without the skills they need?
New goals must make sure every child is not only in
school, but learning what they need to learn.”
- Pauline Rose, the director of the EFA Global

Monitoring Report.
The Learning Generation report
• Today’s generation of young people faces a
radically changing world. Up to half of the
world’s jobs – around 2 billion – are at high
risk of disappearing due to automation in the
coming decades. Only quality education for all
children can generate the needed skills!
…The Learning Generation
• Some 40 percent of employers globally are
finding it difficult to recruit people with the skills
they need.
• In 2030 in low-income countries, under present

trends, only one out of 10 young people will be
on track to gain basic secondary-level skills.
The skills gap
www.britishcouncil.org
The Youth Unemployment Crisis
www.britishcouncil.org
Ethiopian Context
• Drastic increase in school enrollment
• Educational outcomes declining since 2000 (National

Learning Assessments)
• Overall performance of students in English EGRA is

well below the standards set by the Ministry of
Education
Specific Example on Assessment
• Assessment of mother tongue, English and Maths
• Grade 3
• Around 3000 primary schools in Ethiopia
• 7 students from each school
• 9 questions in mother tongue, English and Maths
• 900 out of 3000 schools scored 0. We called them
ZERO SCORE SCHOOLS
World Bank report seems to be true: Schooling but no
learning!
EGRA Zero Scores by Grade
Percentage of Children with Reading
Comprehension Scores of 0%
Activity: learning crisis
• What is your experience of the learning crisis?
• What can we do to overcome this challenge?
• Discuss in groups and give feedback
Deep learning versus surface
learning
• Learning behaviours such
as those related to higher
order thinking skills for
example explaining reasoning,
can lead to deeper
learning when combined with
learning behaviours
related to lower order thinking
skills such as
remembering.
• Learning behaviours related to lower order thinking
skills displayed on their own are likely to lead to
learning that is less deep i.e. surface learning.
Bloom’s taxonomy (upside down)
The highest order thinking
skills (analyse/evaluate/
create) are deep on the
ocean floor
The lowest skills

(remember/understand) are
peaking out on the surface
of this volcanic island
Categorize –Deep /Surface
1. Active search for meaning

2. Anxiety
3. Confidence
4. Examine the logic of argument
5. Failure to distinguish principles from examples
6. Focus on discrete facts without integration
7. Higher long-term retention
8. Low long-term retention
9. Memories for assessment
10.Relate concepts to everyday experience
11.Relate evidence to conclusion
12.Relate innovative ideas to previous knowledge
13.Unreflective about purposes and strategies
14.Vigorous interaction with content
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Professional Learning Session PM
1. Active search for meaning
3. Confidence
4. Examine the logic of argument
7. Higher long-term retention
10. Relate concepts to everyday experience
11. Relate evidence to conclusion
12. Relate innovative ideas to previous
2. Anxiety knowledge
5. Failure to distinguish principles from
14. Vigorous interaction with content
examples
6. Focus on discrete facts without
integration
8. Low long term retention
9. Memories for assessment
13. unreflective about purposes and
strategies
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Deep Surface
Actively Construct Knowledge Are Passive Learners
Fail to tie information

Give Meaning to Material
to a larger framework
Focus on Internal Rewards Focus on external reward
Externally Motivated
Self Motivated
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That is why we need to discuss 21st
Century Skills
questioning
Is globally aware thirst for knowledge
confident independent
listens and reflects willing to have a go
makes a gets on well with others

difference
perseveres generates ideas
critical literate
flexible
shows initiative
communicates well curious
acts with integrity

self-esteem shaper
learns from mistakes
creative ‘can do’ attitude thinks for themselves

With thanks to QCDA
www.britishcouncil.org 2620/02/2018
QUALITY EDUCATION
What's your point of view -POV

21st Century LEARNER
Self-Directed
lifelong Create
LEARNERS
Identitie
Flexible, s Maintain
Visionary Be
Critical Dossier
LEADERS
THINKERS Activists
s
Be
Be
Learner
Caring 21st Creators
21st Century s
Global Collaborative Century
Learner COMMUNICATORS
CITIZENS Learner
Promote
Be Informat
innovator
s ion
Aware, Quality
Healthy Adept
HUMANS INFORMATION Manage Navigate
MANAGERS Media Information
Adept, Violence Overload
Literate
PERFORMERS
CHARACTERISTICS OF 21st CENTURY TEACHER
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk Taker
21ST CENTURY TEACHING AND LEARNING
Ideal Learning Environment
1. Teacher and Student are all learners.
2. The focus is more on questions, less on answers.
3. Creating and Co-Creating is more important than knowing.
4. Innovation and exploration are part of learning.
5. Learning is connected to real life experiences.
20TH CENTURY LEARNING VS. 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
20th Century Learning =Learning Content

21st Century Learning =Learning the tools
and skills to remake the content to become
the producer and creator
-Diana Rhoten
KSC
Activity: What are the Core Skills?
• What do you understand about core skills?
• Write your thoughts on a post it note and then

post them on the flip chart.
• Feedback session
Core Skills
• The name core + 21st century skills
• Different names/categories
• British Council’s Core skills
Creativity and Critical
imagination thinking and
Citizenship problem
solving
British Council
core skills
Student Digital
leadership literacy
and personal Collaboration
development and
communication
What are Core Skills?
⚫ New ways of working
⚫ New ways of thinking
⚫ New ways of living in the world
⚫ New tools for working

Core skill 1
Critical thinking & problem solving

• produces new and innovative ideas
and solves problems
• reflecting critically on learning
experiences
• making effective decisions.
Core skill 2
Collaboration &
communication
• Communication (orally, and in writing)

actively listening to others
• Understanding verbal and non-verbal communication;
• The ability to work in international teams
• Shared responsibility,
• Cooperating, leading, delegating
Core skill 3
Creativity & imagination
• Imagining novel ideas
• Developing innovation and curiosity.
Core skill 4
Citizenship
•Globally-aware citizens
•Work towards a fairer world
•Mutual respect
•Understanding of what it means
to be a citizen of their own country
•Understand their own country’s
values.
Core skill 5
Digital literacy
•Developing the skills to
communicate using
technology
• Using technology to deepen
learning
•Using technology for
international collaboration.
TRANSFORMATION
Providing Quality Education to the 21st Century Learner 6/27/2021 12:34 PM.
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EVOLUTION
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Core skill 6
Student leadership and personal
development
•Honesty and empathy; recognising
others' needs
•Recognising others safety
•Perseverance
•Resilience
•Self-confidence
•Exploring leadership responsibility
•Personal health and well-being
Activity: Core Skills
• Which core skills are very relevant for your
context?
• Think of practical example of how you can

incorporate some of the core skills in your current
job
So why core skills?
to be successful our young people need to be able to:
• Generate new ideas
• Make new ideas happen
• Use digital tools
• Apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems

Why Core Skills?
• To equip children with 21st century skills so that
they compete globally
• To facilitate deep learning in classrooms
Looking at 2 Core Skills in detail
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Creativity and Imagination
‘We need to educate our children for their future,
not our past’
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Thank you

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21st Century Skills

• To create shared understanding about what 21st

• To have a discussion on why the core skills are

• Something you like which begins with the first

• What kind of young people is our education

• What are the key skills gaps among young

• Discuss in groups and give feedback (10’)

• Education crisis is a teaching crisis.

• One big reason the learning crisis persists is that

• Schooling does not equal learning

• 53% of children in low and middle income countries

• Global learning crisis costing $129 billion a year

• ‘Going through school without learning critical

“What’s the point in an education if children emerge

- Pauline Rose, the director of the EFA Global

• In 2030 in low-income countries, under present

• Educational outcomes declining since 2000 (National

• Overall performance of students in English EGRA is

• What is your experience of the learning crisis?

• What can we do to overcome this challenge?

• Discuss in groups and give feedback

The lowest skills

1. Active search for meaning

Fail to tie information

Focus on Internal Rewards Focus on external reward

listens and reflects willing to have a go

makes a gets on well with others

acts with integrity

creative ‘can do’ attitude thinks for themselves

What's your point of view -POV

The Risk Taker

Ideal Learning Environment

1. Teacher and Student are all learners.

2. The focus is more on questions, less on answers.

3. Creating and Co-Creating is more important than knowing.

4. Innovation and exploration are part of learning.

5. Learning is connected to real life experiences.

20th Century Learning =Learning Content

• What do you understand about core skills?

• Write your thoughts on a post it note and then

• British Council’s Core skills

⚫ New ways of working

⚫ New ways of thinking

⚫ New ways of living in the world

⚫ New tools for working

Critical thinking & problem solving

• Communication (orally, and in writing)

• Think of practical example of how you can

• Generate new ideas

• Make new ideas happen

• Use digital tools

• Apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems

• To facilitate deep learning in classrooms

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Creativity and Imagination

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