Communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity: The 4C's. With our fast paced world it is almost impossible to be able to dictate what exact knowledge and skills our children will need in the future. Curricular approaches like the Project Approach and Emergent Curriculum naturally support the above "standards" or what Sylvia Chard and Lillian Katz (along with others) describe as dispositions. The 4C's are no longer just a checklist of knowledge and skills, but dispositions (how we approach teaching, learning and problems).
To generate some thinking about the 4C's I am posting this wonderful story/video created by one of my favorite children's authors, Peter Reynolds called Above and Beyond. How do you consider the 4C's and how do you respond to this challenge of the 21st centruy. How do you think schools are or should be supporting the 4C's?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMM387HNQk&feature=player_embedded
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