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1. Which of the 21st Century Skills that business and industry say are necessary for a 21st Century workforce do you feel are a. embedded in your curriculum? __ Foundational Skills __ //Basic Skills:// Lots of Listening, Reading and Arithmetic but not so much Writing and Speaking. //Thinking Skills:// Lots of work on Creative Thinking, Decision-making and Problem Solving but not so much Knowing how to Learn. //Personal Qualities:// I'm covering Responsibility, Social Skills and Integrity/Honesty; I could improve on Self-management.

__ Functional Skills __ //Resources//: I'm including lots of work on Time Management, and Material and Facility Resources but very little about Managing Money and nothing about Managing Human Resources. //Systems and Technology:// I teach technology-based classes so I have that covered, but I am not sure I am doing a good job supporting student learning on Understanding Systems. //Informational Skills:// I currently cover Acquires and Evaluates Information and Organizing and Maintaining Information but could improve in Interpreting and Communicating Information. //Interpersonal Skills:// I currently include Teaches Others, Serving Clients and Customers, and Works with Cultural Diversity very well, but can improve on Participating as a Team Member and Exercising Leadership.

b. emphasized at your school as a whole?

__ Foundational Skills __ // Basic Skills // I think we have Reading, Writing and Arithmetic covered well; we are working on Listening but I haven't seen much improvement yet; as a school we need to work on Public Speaking but have not identified it as a priority. //Thinking Skills//: As a school we do not really have a focused effort around any of these skills although some individual teachers do them well. Personal Qualities: All four of these skills have been addressed to differing degrees of success, as they have been identified as needs.

__ Functional Skills __ //Resources//: Time Management has been addressed as a priority and, to a minor extent, Managing Material and Facility Resources but we're not currently working on Managing Money or Human Resources at all. //Systems and Technology//: I would give us a "C" for Using Technology and we are really failing at Supporting Understanding of Systems. //Informational Skills//: All of these skills have been identified as needs and we are working on them. //Interpersonal Skills//: We do an average job of addressing all of these skills but Serving Clients and Customers, which we are not addressing at all.

2. Which of the 21st Century Skills that business and industry say are necessary for a 21st Century workforce do you feel are a. not emphasized in your curriculum? See above b. not embraced by your school as a whole? See above

3. Based on what you read and learned from the videos, explain why it is important to assure that all students are acquiring 21st Century skills? Given the realities of the golobal economy, in order to preserve or even improve our students' quality of life, we need to prepare them to be leaders in entrepreneurship and innovation in knowledge services. As I have the privilege of living and working in the Silicon Valley, which is known as a world leader in innovation and ingenuity, we have even more responsiblity to prepare our students with 21st Century skills in order to maintain America's edge in the increasingly competitive global marketplace. What makes these skills even more imperative are the pressures of global climate change and hugely diverse belief systems.