1. 21st
-Century Teaching Skills and Competencies
Teaching in higher education still requires disciplinary accomplishment and appropriate credentials, just as it has for
centuries.
However, becoming student-centered and student-ready educator requires more than attaining status as a disciplinary
expert. We must also be capable of managing our responsibilities as educators and delivering a world-class learning
experience to our students.
Although some of these skills will come naturally to many educators, most are the result of formal, structured
professional development.
1. Active Learning Teaching Techniques
2. Adaptability
3. Advising (if necessary)
4. Applied Learning
5. Assessment (Formative, Pre- & Post-,
Summative, Low-Stake, In support of various
accreditation)
6. Care (A Culture of Care)
7. Change Management
8. Collaboration
9. Communications (clear, effective, timely--
written and verbal)
10. Compassion
11. Confidence
12. Conflict Management & Resolution
13. Consistent & Cohesiveness in Instruction
Across Sections with Colleagues
14. Constructive Feedback
15. Course Mapping
16. Creativity
17. Critical Thinking
18. Cultural Awareness
19. Decision-making
20. Design Thinking
21. Emotional and Social Intelligence
22. Empathy
23. Ethics
24. First Principles Thinking
25. Goal Setting
26. Governance (Networked Governance)
27. Grading
28. Growth Mindset
29. HIPs (All of them)
30. Improvisation
31. Inclusivity
32. Information Literacy
33. Instructional Design
34. Leadership (and classroom management)
35. Learning Management System Familiarity
36. Lesson Planning
37. Linked Learning (ability to link learning)
38. Maslow + Blooms
39. Meeting Students Where They Are
40. Mentoring
41. Multitasking
42. Negotiation
43. Numeracy (calculating - grades/percentages)
44. Objectives (writing)
45. Optimism
46. Organization
47. Outcomes (writing, assessment, mapping)
48. Patience
49. Persistence + Retention + Completion + Re-
recruiting
50. Persuasion
51. Planning
52. Presentation Skills (Lecturing)
53. Proactiveness
54. Problem-Solving
55. Professionalism
56. Program Planning & Mapping
57. Project Management
58. Reflectiveness
59. Research
60. Resiliency (Grit)
61. Resource Management
62. Stress Management
63. Student-Ready
64. Systems Thinking
65. Teaching across multiple modalities with the
ability to pivot
66. Teamwork
67. TILT
68. Time Management
69. Understanding
70. Work Ethic