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The document emphasizes the critical need to integrate the 'four Cs'—critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity—into educational curricula to prepare students for the complexities of modern society and the global workforce. It outlines the definitions, importance, and interconnections of these skills, providing practical classroom integration examples for educators. By fostering these competencies, students can better address global challenges and enhance their employability in a rapidly evolving job market.
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- 1. Integrating 4 C’s Into Teaching
- 2. “The Importance of Teaching the “Four Cs”
- 3. About this templateImportance of Teaching the “Four Cs” Nowadays society is a host of challenges, connectivity, communication and self-direction. Issues such as Global warming, immigration reforms, pandemic diseases, and financial meltdowns are just a few of the issues today’s students will be called upon to address. Therefore, today’s students must be prepared to solve these challenges. If today’s students want to compete in this global society, however, they must also be proficient communicators, creators, critical thinkers, and collaborators (the “Four Cs”). Students need to master additional subject areas, including foreign languages, the arts, geography, science, and social studies. Educators must complement all of those subjects with the “Four Cs” to prepare young people for citizenship and the global workforce.
- 4. ◉Increased in jobs involving nonroutine, analytic, and interactive communication skills. ◉Today’s job market requires competencies such as critical thinking and the ability to interact with people from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds (cultural competency). You can also split your content “Today’s students need critical thinking and problem-solving skills not just to solve the problems of their current jobs, but to meet the challenges of adapting to our constantly changing workforce.” Importance of Teaching the “Four Cs”
- 5. The “Four Cs” In this section, you will find an overview of each of the “Four Cs”: critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation.
- 6. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- 7. Definition of Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Involves the analysis of an issue, by the use of an objective reasoning in order to draw judgments and decisions, in addition of solving problems.
- 8. ◉The link between critical thinking and education is obvious: one can’t learn well without thinking well. ◉Learning critical thinking leads students to develop other skills, such as a higher level of concentration, deeper analytical abilities, and improved thought processing. ◉The solutions to international problems, such as global warming, require highly developed critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. ◉In everyday work, employees must employ critical thinking to better serve customers, develop better products, and continuously improve themselves within an ever-changing global economy. Importance of Critical Thinking and Problem solving
- 9. Relation to Other C’s According to philosophers Richard Paul and Linda Elder, “…sound thinking requires both imagination and intellectual standards.” When one engages in high-quality thinking, one functions both critically and creatively; one produces and assesses, generates and judges the products of his or her thought. Critical thinking also draws on other skills, such as communication and information literacy, to examine, then analyze, interpret, and evaluate it.
- 10. Ways to Integrate Critical Thinking and Problem Solving into Your Classroom This section includes examples of what critical thinking skills might look like in core academic content classrooms.
- 11. Integrating Critical Thinking into Your Classroom Students individually articulate different ways to interpret the same musical passage. Students then compare the various interpretations and determine which one is most effective. Students research how the physical and chemical properties of different natural and humandesigned materials affect their decomposition under various conditions. In small groups, students create a plan for involving students in making technology decisions in the school. Students explore the napkin ring problem: if a hole of height “h” is drilled through the center of a sphere, the volume of the portion of the sphere that remains does not depend on the size of the original sphere; it depends only on h. In groups, students explore how selected societies of the past used their natural resources for fuel.
- 12. Critical thinking may be used within any subject or grade, adjusting its properties to the environment and needs.
- 13. Communication
- 14. Definition of Communication Involves the effective articulation of thoughts and ideas using oral, written, and nonverbal skills in a variety of forms and contexts. In addition of listening effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions, according to a range of purposes, aided by the usage of multiple media and technologies.
- 15. ◉Students must be able to effectively analyze and process the overwhelming amount of communication in their lives today. Which information sources are accurate? Which ones are not? How can they be used or leveraged effectively? ◉The power of modern media and the ubiquity of communication technologies in all aspects of life make teaching strong communication skills even more important. ◉As technology gives rise to global work teams that span time zones, nations, and cultures, it is imperative that tomorrow’s graduates communicate clearly and effectively in a variety of languages. Importance of Communication
- 16. Relation to Other C’s While it is important to emphasize communication skills, it can be difficult to separate them from the other C’s—especially collaboration. As represented in the 21st Century Skills Framework, communication competencies such as clearly articulating ideas through speaking and writing are closely related to collaboration skills, such as working effectively with diverse teams, making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal, and assuming shared responsibility for collaborative work. Communication cannot be effective unless the message is received and understood. Communication skills are intertwined with information, media, communication, and technology skills.
- 17. Ways to Integrate Communication into Your Classroom This section includes examples of what communication skills might look like in core academic content classrooms.
- 18. Integrating Communication into Your Classroom As part of a unit on community development, students communicate with a Peace Corps volunteer, community activist, or local leader who is fluent in the target language and has fieldwork experience. Students exchange information related to the work/projects being undertaken in that country or locally. Students research existing site-based choreography to analyze the impact a location makes on the choreographic composition and the messages communicated from both the specific site and movement governed by that site. Students interview local scientists (e.g., university researcher, local television meteorologist, medical technician) about the ways in which computer models inform their work. Working in small groups, students choose an area from their state’s history, organize a storyboard on the person/place/event, and use digital tools to create a presentation that teaches their topic to the remainder of the class. Students work in groups to design a bedroom. One student in the group plays the role of client, and the others act as the design team.
- 19. Collaboration
- 20. Definition of Collaboration Involves demonstrating ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams, being flexible and showing willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal. Also, assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member.
- 21. ◉Collaboration is essential in our classrooms because it is inherent in the nature of how work is accomplished in our civic and workforce lives. ◉Collaboration is not only important but necessary for students and employees, due to globalization and the rise of technology. ◉Not only does a collaborative effort create more holistic results than individual efforts, but it also creates knowledge for a greater number of people. ◉As a result of students working collaboratively, the group can generate more knowledge, making collaboration a key ingredient to student success in today’s global society. Importance of Collaboration
- 22. Relation to Other C’s It is related to other other C’s in the sense that in society people are not isolated, but rather in constant communication and interaction, therefore, it is reasonable to consider that collaboration takes place and plays a role in everyday life. Within critical thinking, communication, creativity and innovation, we find that people work together to achieve common goals, or in the case of an individual need, in certain way we depend on each other, and in the way we approach to each other mindsets, diversity, and coexist harmoniously, we are more likely to achieve those goals. Relying on each each other, and helping one another is a good way to path our way to success.
- 23. Ways to Integrate Collaboration into Your Classroom This section includes examples of what collaboration skills might look like in core academic content classrooms.
- 24. Integrating Collaboration into Your Classroom Students team with another class in a target language country to identify and compare endangered species in both countries. Students form investigative teams. Each team is asked to investigate the crime rate in a particular city, represented by the variable “x”. Each team then formulates a question about a posible causal variable “y”. Students collaborate with senior citizens in a digital storytelling workshop. The teams bring to life a story from a senior’s history as they collaborate on writing and creating the video, including recording the narration and selecting images and music. Working in small groups, students survey favorite forms of recreation among local teens. Also research the local history of recreational youth facilities for teens and the potential sources of political and economic support. The information is graphed and analyzed, and each group creates a business plan for developing a local recreation center/club for teens. Working in collaboration with other classes in the school, students investigate water runoff on their school grounds and use Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies to create relevant maps.
- 26. Definition of Creativity and Innovation Involves creating a wide range of` new and worthwhile ideas. Refining, analyzing, and evaluating others’ ideas to improve and maximize creative efforts, being open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives.
- 27. ◉Innovative capacity and a creative spirit are fast becoming requirements for personal and professional success. ◉In a world in which good design is increasingly used as a means of differentiating objects of mass production, creative design skills are highly desired in the labor force. ◉Pink sums it up best, “In a world enriched by abundance but disrupted by the automation and outsourcing of white- collar work, everyone must cultivate an artistic sensibility. We may not all be Dali or Degas. But today we must all be designers.” Importance of Creativity and Innovation
- 28. Relation to Other C’s Creativity is closely intertwined with some of the other skills previously identified. Innovation today has a social component and requires adaptability, leadership, teamwork, and interpersonal skills. Increasingly, today the capacity to innovate is linked to the ability to connect with others and with a facility for communication and collaboration.
- 29. Ways to Integrate Creativity and Innovation into Your Classroom This section includes examples of what creativity and innovation skills might look like in core academic content classrooms.
- 30. Integrating Creativity and Innovation into Your Classroom After studying a composer’s work, students compose a theme, then create variations on that theme in that composer’s style. Students investigate alternative energy projects in a target language country (e.g., Solar Decathlon Europe) and use ideas gleaned from their investigation to design and explain an original design of an electric car, solar house, or renewable energy alternative specific to their school. Student teams design plans for a device that will assist people with disabilities and create 3-D sketches of their device using simple computer-aided design software. Students collect a variety of newspaper and magazine articles on a social or environmental issue. In small groups, they decide on an issue and a theme and style for a poem.
- 31. 10 Ways you can Integrate Technology with each of the 4 C’s into your Classroom
- 32. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Use Google Doc, a collaboration feature in Canvas, and tell students to keep a journal in which they reflect on what they are learning. Pose debate questions in a discussion forum in Gmail, and give students instructions to take a side of the debate and cite course readings to support their arguments. Make intuitive suggestions of what a result might be using Khan Academy videos. Project images and ask students to make inferences about the topic.
- 33. National Education Association. Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society. Retrieved from http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/A-Guide-to- Four-Cs.pdf on June 1, 2016. Reference