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"Preparing students for successful careers is a major part of every educator's job, but most preservice and professional development programmes don't cover the skills employers are currently seeking - things like 'emergent' leadership, adaptability, humility and ownership." Illustration above by Linda Tieu.
Beth Dichter's insight:
We so often hear of the 21st century skills our learners need? Common Core tells us that learners need to be critical thinkers/problem solvers, communicators, collaborators and creators. What skills are employers looking for? More than just the four Cs. This post by InformEd provides background based on what employers say they need as well as 30 tips to teach soft skills. Four tips (quoted) are below. * Demonstrate alternate paths to content mastery. * Start grading students on how well they listen to their peers. * Assign group exercises that give people the opportunity to speak, listen, write, organize and lead. * Design opportunities for students to build and demonstrate resilience. There are many more tips in this post. Click through to learn more. 
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"Like cheating on a test, ignoring a friend’s phone call, wallowing in self-pity, or eating a pint of ice cream in one sitting, being wrong feels the worst when someone else is around to witness it. Unlike these things, being wrong is unjustly stigmatized as unacceptable. Everyone answers a question incorrectly now and then, but it’s the shame associated with being wrong, especially in front of others, that harms us more than the fault itself."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Many students are afraid to fail. Therefore they may be afraid to try new things or to ask questions. Too often we may hear the words "I don't know" because the student may feel embarrassed if the give an incorrect answer. This post discusses this topic in some detail before it provides 20 suggestions on ways to work with students to help them overcome the fear of being wrong. Five of the suggestions are below. Additional information on each is in the post as well as fifteen additional suggestions. * Learning has two definitions and one is failure. * Always respond to an answer with more than No." * Turn wrong answers into a learning experience for all. * The "wrong" answer is often more educational than the "right" answer. * Remember that everyone is wrong sometimes.
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
March 18, 2014 2:48 PM
We will never grow if we don't make mistakes and then learn from them. I am sure Bill Gates and James Dyson would agree. Look up any interview with them as they talk about their products.
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"Resilience begins with beliefs. If you believe in the capacity of all individuals to demonstrate resilience, you won't give up on them. Your actions, words, and behaviors will project that message and will awaken and foster resilience in your students."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This September the publication "Educational Leadership" is focused on Resilience and Learning. There are many articles available at the ASCD website and this one provides a list of 11 reflections on resilience, available as text only or as the infographic (downloadable as a pdf). Several other items listed in this are below. * Resilience is a process, not a trait. * Everyone, regardless of age or circumstances, has the capacity for resilience. * Resilience isn't just for people from high-risk environments... Each of these has additional detail and an additional 7 are available in the post.
Jennifer McGuff's curator insight,
August 1, 2015 1:14 PM
I chose this article because it delves into ways to mitigate adversity and develop personal strength.
Erin Ryan's curator insight,
October 19, 2015 8:31 PM
Resilience is believing in what you do and even when it gets so hard and you feel so defeated, you just don’t give up. It is believing that you can rise above and achieve something in the face of disaster, disappointment and struggle. Resilience is needed in education or you will not survive. Each day you spend in school building, you carry the hopes and dreams of your students. You also carry their tragedies and trauma. Why do we do this every day over and over again? Because we are believers. We are resilient and we know we hold the potential to change lives and promote success in all of our students.
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"In psychology, intelligence is not the primary predictor of success. It is the ability to persevere in hardship, persist and learn after failure, and have a resilient spirit in the face of obstacles. Intelligence is a gift that can be developed and nurtured, but continuing on a difficult path when the gratification is far away? That is an invaluable skill for all of us to learn."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Grit seems to be getting a lot of press these days, and this post provides 16 suggestions on what we might do in our classrooms to help students " resilient spirit". You may already be using some of the ideas provided in the post but there will probably be a few new ones you might like to incorporate. Five ideas are listed below. Click through to the post to read all sixteen (and to see additional information on each). * Give an assignment that isn't meant to have a perfect ending * Use educational simulation games * Offer positive distractors to help during difficult tasks * Avoid the "all or nothing" disease
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Beth Dichter's insight:
This infographic comes out of a recently published book, 'Reducing the Risk, Increasing the Promise: Strategies for Student Success.' The book explores ways to help "at-risk students achieve success in and out of the classroom." This infographic proivdes six skills that students need to do this: * Resilience * Resourcefulness * Responsibility * Relationships * Respect * Reading The infographic includes some specific details for each of the skills. A great resource that may be shared with students.
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I've posted about The Other 21st Skills and Attributes. This post provides links and resources about these skills as well as an educator self-assessment. This assessment contains questions to ass...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Jackie Gerstein has written quite a number of posts that look at The Other 21st Century Skills and Attributes. This post provides an infographic that includes two or three questions that you should ask yourself to see if you are 'facilitating these skills and attributes in the learning environment. Gerstein also includes links to previous posts where she discusses the specific skills and attributes in more detail.
David Baker's curator insight,
February 17, 2015 10:54 AM
The power of the Infographic is that it references both teacher and student actions and habits. I have shared it with my teachers. This might become a solid self-assessment tool for coaching conversations with teachers. 
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
April 3, 2015 12:05 PM
Interesting graphic with some great ideas on interpreting 21st century skills as they pertain to teaching
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'Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process.'
Beth Dichter's insight:
What do creative people do that may be different from others. This post explores this stating: 'While there's no "typical" creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. The post shares 18 ideas, each of which are explained in detail if you click through...but five are listed below. * They observe everything * They turn life's obstacles around * They ask the big questions * They constantly shake things up You may find that some of the ideas presented make you think of specific students in your classroom. As teachers are we recognizing that some of our students are more creative in their learning and may improve if we differentiate the instruction to help them engage their creativity?
David Baker's curator insight,
March 16, 2014 11:06 AM
The traits and habits of creative people are things we all do sometimes. How dynamic might learning be if I purposefully built these ideas into my teaching and made it a part of my students routines? 
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
March 17, 2014 2:01 PM
This includes a list of things creative people do. Many of the things on this list we should all be doing - like making time for solitude.
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"Due to the interest of my post The Other 21st Skills, I decided to individually discuss each of the skills or dispositions I proposed that are in addition to the seven survival skills as identified by Tony Wagner. This post focuses on resiliency. The first post focused on Grit: The Other 21st Century Skills. Some would categorize Grit and Resiliency as the same skill, but it is my belief they are involve two different, but interconnected, skill sets. While grit focuses on persistence, resilience is about bouncing back in the face of challenges and/or failure."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Jackie Gerstein continues to discuss "the other 21st skills" addressing resilience in this post. As you read this post think about your students. Do you provide them with opportunities to grow these skills/dispositions? Research in this field shows that teachers make a difference. Below are a few of the points from the post. * All individuals have the power to transform and change * Teachers and schools have the power to transform lives * It’s how teachers do what they do that counts * Teachers’ beliefs in innate capacity start the change process As you read through this post think about your classroom, your students, and ask yourself if there are new ways you might help your students build their resiliency. As always additional information as well as links to resources are available by clicking through.
Kaylin Burleson's curator insight,
June 30, 2013 2:43 PM
We must not forget that in order to accomplish the four Cs it takes timer and effort. One must not be afraid to try and try again if needed to succeed.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
This post looks at the seven dimentsions of effective "learning power" as well as the "new" four Rs (as opposed to the traditional three Rs). The seven dimensions are in the image above. The new four Rs are: * Resilience * Resourcefulness * Reflection * Relationships The final portion of the post looks at how the dimensions and 4 Rs are impacting classrooms, noting that the shift to the new dimensions of learning are found in classrooms that more self-directed, where students learning how to learn. Additional information on these concepts are in the post.
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Thx Beth Dichter