Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

This book describes important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills- such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn.

This report describes how skills relate to each other and to more traditional academic skills and content in the key disciplines of reading, mathematics, and science. The report summarizes the findings of the research that investigates the importance of such skills to success in education, work, and other areas of adult responsibility and that demonstrates the importance of developing these skills in K-16 education. In this report, features related to learning these skills are identified, which include teacher professional development, curriculum, assessment, after-school and out-of-school programs, and informal learning centers such as exhibits and museums.

This book informs and provides guidance to educators, policy makers, and decision makers in school districts; government agencies; curriculum developers; business leaders; scholars; research sponsors; and parent and education advocacy groups.

Contents
Summary
1 Introduction
2 A Preliminary Classification of Skills and Abilities
3 Importance of Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills
4 Perspectives on Deeper Learning
5 Deeper Learning of English Language Arts,, Mathematics, and Science
6 Teaching and Assessing for Transfer
7 Systems to Support Deeper Learning
References
Appendixes
A: 21st Century Skills and Competencies included in the OECD Survey
B: Reports on 21st Century Skills used in Aligning and Clustering Competencies
C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

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