A competency is defined as a capability or ability necessary to be competitive in real life and the workforce, such as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes defined at the 2nd APEC Education Reform Symposium. International organizations have identified core 21st century competencies including learning to do, learn, be, and live together. Key competencies in countries like New Zealand include thinking, using language and text, managing self, relating to others, and participating and contributing.
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1. What is a competency?
A competency is defined as a capability or ability.
At the 2nd APEC Education Reform Syposium in
Xi'an, China, 21st Century Competencies were
defined as the knowledge, skills and attitudes
necessary to be competitive in real life and
workforce.
2. Developing 21st Century Competencies:
An International Concern
International commission on Education for the
21st Century developed 4 pillars:
? 1) Learning to do
? 2) Learning to know
? 3) Learning to be
? 4) Learning to live
together
4. The Partnership for 21st Century in the
United States defines competencies as:
5. Key competencies in 21st Century New
Zealand
? 1.Thinking
? 2 Using language, symbols and text
? 3 Managing self
? 4 Relating to others
? 5 Participating
and contributing
6. According to the Asia society, students
must develop the knowledge and skill to:
? Investigate the world
? Weigh perspectives
? Communicate ideas
? Take the action.
7. The global classroom
? Technologies: Are the tools students use to
create knowledge and to create personal and
social change.
? Computer and Internet
? T V in classrooms
? DVDs
? Projectors screen ect.
8. El Salvador Education in 21st Century
? CON?CTATE
? EduNet
? myPortal
? One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC) project
? Digital Learning Centers¡¯ project
? PIENSA (THINK) program
9. ? Yo?re never too young, or too old,
to make your voice heard and
create change that
make the world a
better place.