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Four Life Skills Example Projects for High School Students

4/25/2025

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What are some essential life skills and how can you as a teacher help your high school students build these essential skills? With experiential learning! This post offers some life skills example projects to inspire you! Let’s take a look!

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How to Help Students Build 21st-Century Skills with Inquiry-Based Learning Strategies

3/17/2025

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Creating opportunities in the classroom for students to build 21st-century skills should be a priority for today's educators. ALL of them.

How do you infuse 21st-century skills seamlessly into the curriculum or learning day? I like to promote 21st-century skill-building with inquiry-based learning strategies.

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What are 21st-Century Skills in Education and Why are They So Important to Teach?

3/11/2025

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What are 21st century skills in education? Teaching 21st-century skills to 21st-century learners is essential and this blog post shares why.
What are 21st-century skills in education and why are they so darn important to teach to our kids and teens? In short, these skills are essential for modern day life and the workplace. Therefore, teaching 21st- century skills, in my experience, is as important, if not more (unpopular opinion) than teaching content.

But why? Let me paint you a little picture...

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Why I Don't Give My Students Worksheets and What I Do Instead

8/26/2024

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Are worksheets good or bad? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but no worksheets is my class motto. See why I don't use worksheets and what I do instead. Find free worksheet alternative inside.
Are worksheets good or bad? That is the question.

For those of you that follow my blog closely you have probably formulated a guess as to my answer to this question. I'm going to start by saying that I don't think worksheets are "bad". I believe that they have a place in this world, but in very very very very very small doses. There are ample alternatives to worksheets, and I hope you'll consider them.

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3 Super Simple Ways to Teach Self-Direction Skills to Student-Led Learners

3/4/2024

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I often get asked about tips for helping students build self-direction skills. Teachers commonly enter the world of student-led learning inspired and confident but quickly discover that many of their students are unable to self-direct, and that can be frustrating not just for you but for your students as well.

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6 Easy Ways to Incorporate 21st-Century Skills Into the Learning Day

10/15/2023

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Teaching 21st-century skills in your classroom doesn't have to be difficult. 21st-century learners have the wherewithal to take these skills and run with them, but the opportunities need to be there and that is your job; the job of a 21st century teacher. These activities naturally incorporate skill-building as well as content and fun. Check it out.
Teaching 21st-century skills is essential for 21st-century learners. That is the truth of it. Content knowledge is important, but soft skills are as well. As the world around us transforms, the value of and need for particular skills shifts.

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How Are You Engaging Learners in 21st-Century Skill-Building?

6/22/2021

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Teaching the 21st-century skills does not have to be a replacement for developing content knowledge. Educators can and should teach the 21st-century skills while encouraging the understanding of essential concepts.

How to Teach the 21st-Century Skills and Content Knowledge

Content knowledge and 21st-century skills? Can educators teach both to 21st-century learners? The answer is yes, they can do it all, and at this point, they must.

Not long ago my husband and I got into a conversation about the importance of 21st-century skills. What is more valuable, skills or content knowledge? I argued (and have argued here before), that you can't have one without the other, and it is one of our greatest responsibilities as educators to provide opportunities for development in both.

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Pedagogy that Encourages Active and Reponsible Citizenship

6/14/2020

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Help students gain content knowledge and develop critical life skills such as community participation and engagment, with these instructional methods. Choose pedagogy that promotes active and responsible citizenship.
The year 2020 has been a doozy. In a matter of six months there has been a pandemic, school closures, economic collapse, "murder hornets", countless instances of racial injustice, and an uprising, one that has been a long time coming. I've been thinking about how these unprecedented events have impacted the lives of my students and what power they have to shape the uncertain future of this world.

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10 Ways to Help Students Develop Collaboration Skills

10/8/2019

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The ability to form partnerships within a community  and use those partnerships for the greater good is an important skill for students have has they enter into life and careers in the 21st-century. The skill is collaboration. How are you helping students develop collaboration skills? Try some of our suggestions to get you started.
Here comes another "C"! Have you noticed that many of the skills I've been covering in my 21st-century skills series start with a "C"? Those are the 4 C's of education; critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration.

​There are many 21st-century skills, but the 4C's lay the foundation for the others, in my opinion.

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Learning Activities That Build Problem-Solving Skills

10/1/2019

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The ability to problem-solve is arguably the most important 21st-century skill. Educators must play a role in helping children develop this essential skill. Try out these learning activities for your home or classroom to boost problem-solving skills.
Last night my three-old tried to climb out of the bathtub by herself. I helped her back in the tub and explained to her that the bathtub ledge is smooth and wet, and therefore, slippery.

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