Dance Educators Training Institute Monday, August 5, 2013 UMBC Suzie Henneman

How the “21 st Century Skills” came to be… President’s New Commission for Skills for the Workplace – Tough Choices, Tough Times A Nation of Opportunity: Building America's 21st Century Workforce ce

This is a world in which a very high level of preparation in reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, science, literature, history and the arts will be an indispensable foundation for everything that comes after for most members of the workforce.

The best employers the world over will be looking for the most competent, most creative and most innovative people on the face of the earth and will be willing to pay them top dollar for their services. This will be true not just for the top professionals and managers, but up and down the length and breadth of the workforce. Those countries that produce the most important new products and services can capture a premium in world markets that will enable them to pay high wages to their citizens.

—School Reform, Improvement and Accountability: Schools, school districts, and the States should pursue a wide range of reforms to improve student academic achievement, focusing their efforts on aligning curricula, assessments, teacher professional development and management practices with rigorous academic content and student performance standards.

From Partnership for 21 st Century Skills

 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  Communication  Collaboration  Creativity  Innovation  Information Literacy  Media Literacy  Information, Communication, and Technology Literacy  Flexibility and Adaptability  Initiative and Self- direction  Social And Cross- cultural Skills  Productivity and Accountability  Leadership and Responsibility

1. Critical thinking and problem solving 2. Communication 3. Collaboration 4. Creativity and innovation

1. How are the 21 st Century Skills addressed in dance education?

1. What, in dance training/education, is not addressing the 21 st Century Skills; where are the gaps? 2. What are the issues, barriers?

Results of NDEO Gap Analysis: Analysis of The Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts and The 21 st Century Skills

Standards for Learning and Teaching Dance in the Arts NDEO: National Dance Education Organization

1. What are the gaps and how can we, as dance educators, address the gaps? 2. How are you going to apply the information from this presentation and discussion in your teaching?

1. Satisfy the changing customer's or client's needs. Your customer may be either external or internal and your output either a product or service. Most times customer satisfaction will require a process of innovation through team- oriented collaboration. 2. Become a creative, effective and efficient problem solver utilizing critical thinking skills to meet the customer's need in a response time that provides a sustainable competitive advantage through added comparative value and service. 3. In order to perform effectively, in an increasingly multicultural society, it is important to also have a global perspective with cultural understanding and sensitivity. 4. One must also be motivated and persistent for the right reasons; realizing that you can increase your motivation substantially to face unforeseen future challenges. The root of all effective motivation is a healthy amount of self- esteem. 5. Manage and take responsibility for one’s own career, including multiple and varied job assignments with an international perspective, to help develop the needed competencies. A formal career plan, along with feedback from candid and trusted friends for realism, and a mentor to assist you in navigating career moves is also critical. 6. Finally, live a balanced and healthy life with time devoted to family and outside work activities, a skill that is now recognized as essential to life and career success.

Daniel Pink “What’s important now are the characteristics of the brain’s right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big- picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields. “

“Students’ capacity to create and express themselves through the arts is one of the central qualities that make them human, as well as a basis for success in the 21 st Century.” 21 st Century Skills Map THE ARTS

 Partnership for 21 st Century Skills  21 st Century Skills Map THE ARTS s/P21_arts_map_final.pdf  NEA :Partnership for 21 st Century Skills  National Dance Education Organization  National Coalition for Core Arts Standards  National Teaching Standards for Dance Education room/arts_assessment/worddocs/Nat ionalPD_DanceStandards.pdf  National Career Development Association CDA/pt/sd/news_article/34201/_PAR ENT/layout_details_cc/false  Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind mind