This document discusses the concept of lifelong learning and the skills needed for the 21st century. It encourages students to think about their dreams and set goals for the future. Some of the skills highlighted as important for lifelong learning and future careers include core subjects, global awareness, financial literacy, creativity, critical thinking, communication, technology skills, leadership, and adaptability. The document advises students to track how they spend their time, set a schedule, and focus on self-improvement rather than comparing themselves to others.

1. Continuing Education: Life Long
Learning
Eve Smith, M. A.
Senior English Language Fellow
Ukraine

2. What is life long learning?
• We have been discussing continuing education
and life long learn in different ways. Please
use your notebooks and write for ONE minute
on the following question: What does life long
learning mean to you?

3. Professor Bashir, NCA
“The age of learning never
stops. Same is that case for me.
I continue to learn new things.
The process of learning will
continue the whole of my life. “

4. Who will we have to be in the 21st
Century?
• You have heard many presenters
discussing how education is
changing and will change in the
21st century. What is your
opinion? Who will we have to be
in the 21st Century?

5. SCHOOL FOCUSED SKILLS
The academic side

6. Core Subjects
• English, reading or language arts, world
languages, arts, mathematics, economics,
science, geography, history, government and
civics.

7. SCHOOL AND INDIVIDUAL
DEVELOPED SKILLS

8. Other necessary subjects
• Global Awareness
• Financial, Economic, Business and
Entrepreneurial Literacy
• Civic Literacy
• Health Literacy
• Environmental Literacy

9. Learning and Innovative Skills
• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Communication and Collaboration

10. Information, Media and
Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT (Information, Communications and
Technology) Literacy

11. Life and Career Skills
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity and Accountability
• Leadership and Responsibility

12. FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS (AND
PAYING ATTENTION).
Develop many of these skills by:

13. If you could be anything, what would
you be?
• In your notebook, write what you would like
to be in the future. Remember, you don’t have
to limit it to one thing. You can list as many as
you would like.
• EX: Write, traveller, adventurer, marine
biologist, photographer, scuba diver, etc.

14. Be Clear
• After writing your dreams, think about the
details. If you want to be a banker, what kind
of banker do you want to be. Start to look at
the profiles that bankers have and see what
skills you need.

15. Making it happen.
• Setting goals:
– In ten years…
– In five years…
– In one year…
– In six months…
– In three months…
– This month…

16. Categories of Goals
• Lifestyle
• Finance
• Family
• Education

20. ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR GOALS, YOU HAVE
TO CONSIDER HOW TO ACHIEVE THEM.

21. We are given the same 24 hours
each day. How we choose to spend
our time makes the difference
between success and failure.
-Kenneth Brodeur

22. How are you spending your time?
• Track your time over the course of a week.
– Write EVERYTHING down.
• Set a schedule.
– Write EVERYTHING down.

23. On Being Competitive
• The only person you should be competing
with is yourself.
• Be a trustworthy person. Don’t speak badly
about others.

24. The hallmark (sign) of a second-
rater is resentment of another’s
achievement.
-Ayn Rand

25. Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein

26. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.
ANY QUESTIONS?
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin
where he was.” Richard L. Evans