Spice Rack- Future-Ready Skills

Spice Rack

Future-Ready Skills

Look-Fors

Innovate

• Ask open-ended questions
• Encourage students to question everything (don’t be afraid to challenge students assumptions and beliefs)
• Teach students how to evaluate information
• Use technology to engage students
• Use technology to differentiate instruction
• Brainstorm a list of real-world problems, research the problems, come up with realistic solutions and then develop ways to implement those solutions.

• identify real-world problems and develop creative solutions
• think critically and ask questions that produce a deeper understanding
• leverage technology as a tool for improvement

Respond

Look-Fors

Being respectful of people from different cultures and backgrounds. Being aware of the social norms and expectations of the surrounding community. Managing one’s time and creating an appropriate balance between work and personal time.

• show compassion and respect towards the feelings of others
• manage emotions and make responsible decisions based on social awareness
• balance demands with free time and seek help when needed

• Students understand the difference between communicating in a formal/professional/academic tone and an informal tone

• Communication is happening from student to student, not just between teacher and student
• Teachers plan ahead what questions they will ask
• Teachers ask questions to ensure students are actively listening
• Students are communicating with the purpose of building relationships and making connections with other students who are different than them
• Students understand importance of tone and body language (nonverbal)

Communicate

• clearly articulate ideas in a variety of ways
• build connections by listening and learning from diverse viewpoints
• ensure sources of information are accurate, reliable, and relevant

Look-Fors

• Students are writing in various formats, essays, short answers, discussion posts, emails
• Students are asked to write and speak in a formal/professional/academic voice

• One provides gentle feedback about others’ words and tone to foster an environment of respect
• Students display active listening skills- teachers model and teach what this looks like
• Students display empathy
• Problem-Solving
• Accountability- in group work all members play a role and contribute to the success of the group. Teachers redirect students when all are not participating, and help create social contracts
• Students collaborating in person and online, with people in the classroom and beyond the walls of the school

Collaborate

• identify shared goals and negotiate strategies for success
• recognize and include the strengths of all individuals
• demonstrate confidence in personal ability to make the group better

Look-Fors

• Teachers are creating opportunities for students to work together and are setting clear expectations for group work
• Words and tone indicate respect and sensitivity to others- teachers may provide sentence starters

Contribute

Look-Fors

• Opportunities for students to make “real-world” or personal connections with the material
• Learning Objectives or Future-Ready Targets to address daily goals
• Students publishing work in Canvas, online, Amazon Publisher, essay contests, etc.

• serve local and global communities through actions that positively impact society
• set goals based on individual passions, interests and strengths
• create a positive and productive digital/online presence

• Volunteer Participation
• Students are Self-Motivated
• Time-Management- students are managing their pace through assignments or projects
• Collaboration in which students are comfortable asking questions and supporting one another
• Growth Mindset Language- students say “I can learn from this” or “Let’s try another approach.”
• Goal Setting- Students are setting realistic goals that push them
• Reflection- students can describe their learning, how it changed and how it might relate to future learning experiences
• Voice and Choice- Students get to choose how to learn or how to demonstrate their knowledge

Embrace Challenges

• develop a growth mindset to learn from mistakes
• perservere by applying new strategies
• reflect and build on struggles, failures, and successes

Look-Fors

• Volunteer Participation
• Students are Self-Motivated
• Time-Management- students are managing their pace through assignments or projects