1. Being a Critical Thinker in the 21st Century
Tracey Sinclair

2. Contents
Progress with Proverbs 21st Century Skills Examples Suggestions and Advice Conclusions

3. Progress with Proverbs
More haste, less speed. (England) The more one sleeps, the less one lives. (Portugal) Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. (China) The sea is made bigger even by one drop. (Russia) No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow. (Republic of Congo) Quick work, double work. (Montenegro)

4. 21st Century Skills

5. Let’s compare
What were the 20th Century Skills? Go on...ask the person/people next to you. See if you agree.

6. Any of these come up?
Male/female roles Maths and dealing with money Ways of doing things for free (or at a low cost) Manual labour and versatility - DIY Knowledge of geography (America) Cleanliness – self and home

7. What do we call these skills today?
There are others…..
What do we call these skills today?

8. 21st Century Skills
Civic Literacy Financial, Economic, Business, Entrepreneurial Literacy Global Awareness Health Literacy Environmental Literacy

9. 21ST Century Skills

10. cont.

11. Examples for today’s classes
Relating to us
Examples for today’s classes

12. Basic Examples
Pair work and group work Projects What happens/would happen if ... ‘Grandmother’s Rule’ Wikipedia: not the be all and end all ... (critical thinking) Oral communication

13. Collaboration & Responsibility
Making a class contract at the start of the year Students’ role in the class Teacher’s role in the class School rules National laws

14. Global Awareness
Watch/read the news every day Critical thinking re the news Multi national classes Ethnicity CLIL – geography, social studies, history, etc

15. Working towards creating citizens of an unknown future.
21st Century Skills
Working towards creating citizens of an unknown future.

16. Progress

17. Error is always in a hurry. (England)
Proverb
Error is always in a hurry. (England)

18. Pin steps
The dynamic Romberg Test Aka heel-toe walk

19. Example
Any contents page of a course book. ( I hope )

20. 21st Century Skills
- Oral And Communication Skills

21. Vocabulary with a twist
21st Century Skill - Flexibility

22. Body parts related to - animals - sports - weather
Critical Thinking
Body parts related to - animals - sports - weather

23. Multi cultural
21st Century Skill
– Global Awareness

24. Critical thinking
Mixed race Or
Mixed heritage?
Linda Bellos

25. There’s actually critical thinking here too. Independence ...
(aka freedom from
adults)
Also pair/peer and group work.
There’s actually
critical thinking
here too.

26. Critical thinking
Ingredients for..... City/country famous food (good for CLIL) Why some foods are not available all year round (slow food, season, etc) Best place to buy a certain ingredient

27. Environmental Literacy
CLIL, global awareness, civic literacy, critical thinking, digital literacy,...

28. Outside of box What are YOU doing to save our planet?
Don’t get TOO political....
What are YOU doing to save our planet?
Countries that recycle
PLASTIC!!!

29. Digital Literacy
Videos Digital books Computer languages PPT ELi material encourages it.

30. The examples go on and on and on and on .....
What are YOU doing in your classes?

31. What we did today
Progress with Proverbs 21st Century Skills Examples Suggestions and Advice Conclusions

32. Being a Critical Thinker in the 21st Century
Tracey Sinclair