2. Session II: Shifting Lenses: Applying 21st Century Skills to Your Lessons Presented by Gabriela Montoya-Stier, Lauren Bain, and Neal Tipton

3. Session II: Objectives ●Take a closer look at 21st Century Skills ●Discuss how these skills apply to the Revised TEKS ●Look at a lesson based on the Revised TEKS and 21st Century Skills

4. History of 21st Century Skills ●Started in 2002 as a coalition of groups from the business community, educational leaders, and policy makers ●The mission: To start a conversation on skills our students need to have to be successful in the 21st century

5. What are the Key Points? ●Learning and Innovation ●Information, Media, and Technology Skills ●Life and Career Skills

6. Activity: We are... ●going to take a closer look ●going to form discussion groups ●discuss each key point one at a time and share with the whole group

7. Guiding Question How do 21st Century Skills apply to your revised lessons based on the Revised TEKS?

8. Learning and Innovation ●Creativity and Innovation ●Critical Thinking and Problem Solving ●Communication and Collaboration musical example video

9. Information, Media, and Technology Skills ●Information Literacy ●Media Literacy ●Information, Communications, and Technology Literacy musical example video

10. Life and Career Skills ●Flexibility and Adaptability ●Initiative and Self Direction ●School and Cross- Curricular Skills ●Productivity and Accountability ●Leadership and Responsibility

11. Our Journey: Part 2 ●In this session, we will focus on: ●Grade 5, (4)(A) create rhythmic phrases through improvisation and composition ●Neal’s lesson model will be based on the Orff process

12. Lesson Model ●Which skills did this lesson focus on?

13. Lesson Planning Time ●Please continue to collaborate with your group to create your lessons ●Please connect your lessons with 21st century skills ●For the last 15 minutes of this session, we would like at least 2 groups to share their work so far

14. Time to Share! What connections did you discover between the new TEKS and the 21st Century skills? How did your group determine which skills were critically important to the lesson? Which might be better taught through another lesson?