tony wagner’s: creating innovators
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Influence. “Yesterday’s answers won’t solve today’s problems.”. Knowledge Workers. Undefined Work. LEADERSHIP. Real Voice. “ Even in our best schools, we are teaching kids to memorize much more than to think, and in the 21 st century, mere memorization won’t get you very far.”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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TONY WAGNER’S:CREATING INNOVATORS
7 Soft Skills Students Desperately Need
Undefined Work
Knowledge
Workers
Flexibility
Real VoiceProblem Solver
Influence
LEADERSHIP
“Yesterday’s answers won’t solve today’s problems.”
“Even in our best schools, we are teaching kids to memorize much more than to think, and in the 21st century, mere memorization won’t get you very far.”
Would you Hire Your Own Kids?
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Soft Skill #1
What is It?• Asking Good
Questions• Figure out
what’s important and what’s not
• Self-learning and inquiry
What It’s NOT?• Teaching to a
test• Only occurs at
secondary levels• Using textbooks
as sole resource
IDEAs• Open ended
questions• Essential
Questions• Big Ideas
“The idea that a company’s senior leaders have all the answers and can solve problems by themselves has gone completely by the wayside…The person who’s close to the work has to have strong analytic skills. You have to be rigorous: test your assumptions, don’t take things at face value, don’t go in with preconceived ideas that you’re trying to prove.”
-Ellen Kumata, consultant
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MATH PRACTICE 1
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
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Collaboration Across Networks and Leading By Influence Soft Skill #2
What is It?• Team Work• Collaboration• Relational skills• Reaching across
boundaries• Teacher as
facilitator
What It’s NOT?• Whole Class
instruction• Step by Step
instructions• Teacher-
centered
IDEAs• Wikis• Sharepoint• Cooperative
Learning• Discussions
“The biggest problem we have in the company as a whole is finding people capable of exerting leadership across the board….Our mantra is that you lead by influence, rather than authority.”
-Mark Chandler, Sr. VP at Cisco
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MATH PRACTICE 3
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
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Agility and Adaptability Soft Skill #3
What is It?• Reflect and
Revise• Experimentatio
n• Risk taking• Opportunities to
fail• Learning
process
What It’s NOT?• Only one right
answer• Answer more
important than process
• Lecture and rote memorization
IDEAs• Debates• Presentations• Inquiry Based
Problems• Problem Based
Learning
“I’ve been here four years, and we’ve done fundamental reorganization every year because of changes in the business…I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills.”
-Clay Parker, President of Chemical Management
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MATH PRACTICE 1Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
MATH PRACTICE 5Use appropriate tools strategically
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Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Soft Skill #4
What is It?• Proactive, self-
starters• Creativity• STRETCH goals• Out of the box
thinkers
What It’s NOT?• Status Quo• Teacher
Dominated • Boring, dull,
non-engaging lessons
IDEAs• Teams• Project Based
Learning• Students
monitoring growth
“For our production and crafts’ staff, the hourly workers, we need self-directed people…who can find creative solutions to some very tough, challenging, problems.”
-Mark Maddox, Human Resources Manager –
Unilever Foods
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MATH PRACTICE 4
Model with mathematics
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Effective Oral and Written Communication
Soft Skill #5
What is It?• Clear and
concise• Focus, energy
and passion• Reason and
persuade• Write with voice
What It’s NOT?• Focus on
grammar, punctuation, and spelling
• Worksheets
IDEAs• Reporting• Newspapers• Blogging• Websites• Presentations
“The biggest skill people are missing is the ability to communicate: both written and oral presentations. It’s a huge problem for us.”
-Annmarie Neal, VP of Talent Management at Cisco
Systems
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MATH PRACTICE 6
Attend to precision
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Accessing and Analyzing Information
Soft Skill #6
What is It?• Evaluating
information from a variety of sources
• Synthesize findings
• Always changing
What It’s NOT?• Definitions• Sole Sources
(textbook)• One answer
IDEAs• Research• Use of varied
sources• Technology
infusion• Multiple
approaches
“There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren’t prepared to process the information effectively, it almost freezes them in their steps.”—Mike Summers, Vice President for Global Talent Management at
Dell
+MATH PRACTICE 7
Look for and make use of structure
MATH PRACTICE 8Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
+ What is It?• Inquisitive
Thinkers• Problem Solving• Unique and
meaningful tasks
• Innovation
What It’s NOT?• Rigid Structure• Close-minded• Fear of failure
IDEAs• Make Learning
Fun• Real world
problems
“Our old idea is that work is defined by employers and that employees have to do whatever the employer wants…but actually, you would like him to come up with an interpretation that you like—he’s adding something personal—a creative element.”
—Michael Jung, Senior Consultant at McKinsey and
Company
Curiosity and Imagination
Soft Skill #7
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MATH PRACTICE 2
Reason abstractly and quantitatively
+Resources: www.tonywagner.com http://quizlet.com/5556999/tony-wagners-7-survival-ski
lls-flash-cards/
http://www.edutechmag.org/2009/06/28/reviewing-tony-wagners-seven-skills-students-desperately-need/
http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/would-you-hire-your-own-kids-7-skills-schools-should-be-teaching-them-291.php
http://wiki.bath.ac.uk/display/charlescornelius/Tony+Wagner%27s+Seven+Survival+Skills
Wagner, T., & Compton, R. A. (2012). Creating innovators: The making of young people who will change the world. New York: Scribner.