The document discusses key skills for the 21st century: collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication. It provides examples of activities and strategies to develop each skill in the classroom, including group work, problem-based learning, self and peer assessment, questioning techniques, and idea generation methods. Developing these 4C skills is important for students to succeed in today's changing environment and workforce.

1. Developing Critical, Creative and Collaborative skills
Keys to
21st
Century
Skills
4 Cs

2. Collaboration
The learner
is the
primary
focus of instruction
Instruction
and “doing” are of
primary import
ant
Working in a
group
Structured
approaches
to
developing
solution to real-
world
problems
Fishbowl
debate
Think-
pair-share
/
Write-pai
r-share
Catch-up
Team based learning
Case study
Stump your partner
Problem-Based learning
Collaborative Learning
or
Group work activities
Allocating resources
and responsibilities
Brainstorming ideas in a
group
Decision - making
Delegating
Evaluating Goal setting
Leading a group
Resolving conflictsTeam building
Managing time
Collaborative Abilities

3. Steps that are necessary while designing group
work assignment
Managing large Group work project
Introduce
the task
Provide
enough
time
Group work Evaluation
General Strategies to keep in mind when
incorporating group work
 Introduce group work early in the semester to set clear
students expectations.
 Plan for each stage of group work.
 Carefully explain to students how group will operate and
how students will be graded.
 Help students to develop the skills they need to succeed
in going activities.
 Establish ground rules.
 Consider using written contracts.
 Incorporate self and peer assessment for group members
to evaluate their own and others’ contributions
 Think about course learning outcomes and
how might address them.
 How group will be organized
 How student learning and group process will
be supported.
 How students will be evaluated.
In the class consider:
 How activity can be introduce
 How group will be formed
 How to ensure that students are productive
 What technology might assist the group work
 What the students can do
 Provide opportunities for students to
develop rapport and group.
 Give students time to create group
 Establish ground rules.
 Assign roles to members.
 Allow students to rate each other’s
quality and quantity of contribution
 Check in with group intermittently
 Evaluate students on both their contribution to
group process as well as the final product.
 Create a detail explanation what our
expectation are.
 Provide scores for individual as well as group
 Use rubric
 Incorporate peer and self- assessment at
various milestones.
 Communicate clearly to students at the
beginning how we can calculate their grades.

4. CRITICAL THINKINGCritical
Thinking
Abilities
Critical Thinking in the classroom
 Critical thinking is a skill that we can teach to
our students. It draws on other skills, such as
communication and information literacy, to
explore a problem, then analyze, explain and
evaluate it.
 Learning critical thinking leads students to
develop other skills, such as a higher level of
concentration deeper analytical abilities, and
improved thought processing.
 Critical thinking is a literacy that evolves as
we develop.
 Today’s students need critical thinking and
problem-solving skills not just to solve the
problems of their current jobs, but to meet the
challenges of adapting to our constantly
changing workforce.

5. Importance of Developing
Critical Thinking Skills.
Develop Critical Thinking By
learning to:
 Use different kinds of reasoning (deductive and inductive, to
understand a situation).
 Analyze complex systems and understand how their
interconnected parts support the systems
 Gather relevant information.
 Ask important questions that clarify points of view and help
solve problems.
 Make decisions by selecting appropriate criteria and
identifying alternatives to make reliable choices.
 Thinking "out-of-the-box", challenging consensus and pursuing
less popular approaches.
Critical thinking is an essential part of creativity because we need
critical thinking to evaluate and improve our creative ideas.
Academic Performance:
 Understand the argument and beliefs of
others
 Critically evaluating those argument and
beliefs
 Develop and defined one’s own-supported
argument and beliefs.
Daily Life:
 Helps to avoid making foolish
personal decisions.
 Helps to reflect and get deeper
understanding of own and others’
decisions.

6. creativity
 Creative thinking is
expansive, open-ended
invention and discovery
of possibilities. when
people speak of , “right
brain” activity, they
most often mean
creative thinking.
 Creativity is the ability
to produce new,
diverse and unique
ideas'
 Creativity that is valued
is the ability to come up
with new and useful
ideas, ideas that serve
an important need or
creates a new trend that
makes an impact.
Innovation is the
implementation
of creativity-the
introduction of a
new idea,
process, or
product.
Creativity
provides the
necessary spark
to get the ball
rolling.
Entertaining
others
Imagining
ideas
Improvising
a
solution
Designing
something
Overturning
something
Brainstorming
ideas
Creating
something
Problem
Solving
Creative
Thinking
Abilities

7. Creativity in the classroom
 We are faced with countless
problems in our daily life, and it is
precisely creative thinking that
helps us come up with solutions to
these problems.
 Creativity is not a passive state of
mind.
 We must provide opportunity to our
students to be creative through
different activities
 Creativity and Innovation
 Think Creatively
 Use a wide range of idea creation techniques
 Create new and worthwhile ideas
 Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own
ideas in order to improve and maximize creative
efforts
 Work Creatively with Others
 Develop, implement and communicate new ideas
to others effectively
 Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspectives.
 Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work
and understand the real world limits to adopting
new ideas
 View failure as an opportunity to learn
 Implement innovations
 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and
useful contribution to the field in which the
innovation will occur
Barriers of
thinking
Creatively
Negative
Attitude
Fear Of
Failure
Executive
Stress
Lack Of
Direction
Following
Rules
Fear Of
Criticism

8. communication
Communication is a process whereby information is
enclosed in a package and is channeled and imparted by
a sender to a receiver via some medium. The receiver
then decodes the message and gives the sender a
feedback. All forms of communication require a sender, a
message, and an intended recipient, however the receiver
need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to
communicate at the time of communication in order for
the act of communication to occur.
To build effective Communication Skills students must learn to:
Communicate using digital media and environments to support personal and group
learning.
Share information efficiently and effectively using appropriate digital media and
environments.
Communicate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively to different audiences using
various media and formats.

9.  Analyzing the
situation
 Evaluating
messages
 Following
conventions
 Listening
actively
Communication
abilities
Students must be able to effectively analyze
and process the overwhelming amount of
communication in their lives today.
Which information sources are accurate and
which are not and how it can be used.
The power of modern media and the ubiquity
of communication technologies in all aspects
of life make teaching strong communication
skills even more important.
Importance of communication