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April 27, 2017
It all started with 4 C’s of the 21st – century education: critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. These are the skills that many of you teachers are familiar with and already implementing them in your classrooms. However, this is not where C’s are ending. In his blog post, Brian S. Miller first introduced the world to the new, augmented concept – the 6 C’s of education. He suggested the concept after talking to his colleagues, listening to their suggestions, and studying materials of education leaders of today. In this post, we’ll take a look at this concept.
The Importance of 6 C’s of Education
Before digging deep in the concept, it’s important to highlight the value of these new educational skills. The key purpose of educational institutions is preparing children for their future jobs. However, the problem educational institutions are facing is that future of today’s children is so unpredictable. Jobs we can’t even imagine are created every day.
Employers require creative and problem-solving skills and an ability to adapt to
changes. Those new skills and abilities kids can’t polish by solving standardized tests. That’s why teachers need to foster new skills in the classroom- skills of 6 C’s education.
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The 6 C’s of Education. Photo Credit: Michael Fullan & Sylvia Duckworth
6 C’s of Education
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the process of filtering, analyzing and questioning information/content found in various media, and then synthesizing it in a form that has a value to an individual. It allows students to make sense of the presented content and apply it to their daily lives.
Collaboration
Collaboration is a skill of utilizing various personalities, talents, and knowledge in a
way to create a maximum outcome. The outcome must provide a benefit to the entire community or a group. Due to synergy, the common outcome has a greater value than a sum of values of each individual outcome. Check how you can sparkle collaboration in your classroom with few easy games.
Communication
Communication is a skill of presenting information in a clear, concise and meaningful way. It also designates careful listening and articulating thoughts. Communication has various purposes: informing, instructing, motivating, and persuading.
Creativity
In the 21st century, an individual must be able to create something new or create something in a new way, utilizing the knowledge he has already acquired. It does not just signify art, but also various solutions to a problem in real life situations. In our last blog post, we have suggested few methods how to foster creativity in the math classroom.
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This is a part where various authors point out different skills. Miller states the culture as one of the pieces of 6 C’s, while Michael Fullan features citizenship. When we look closer, they are not so different, and actually, they go hand in hand with one another. It is important for
an individual to be in touch with everything that surrounds him – both culture and
community.
Character Education/ Connectivity
According to Miller, understanding the importance of human connectivity in the world filled with technology is a necessary skill to teach children. Fullan highlights character education as the last C. It includes school’s commitment to helping young people become
responsible, caring, and contributing citizens.
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mind blowing new ideas and competencies.
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believe that these skills bring new possibilities, however, it requires a lot of effort from the teacher and time to prepare for this new way of teaching skills
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mind blowing new ideas and competencies.
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believe that these skills bring new possibilities, however, it requires a lot of effort from the teacher and time to prepare for this new way of teaching.kills
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I believe thats the point were the new technologies enter. Now days it’s easier to organize our work as studies to better prepare our classes. With differente tools at our diposal we can do more with less.
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mind blowing new ideas and competencies.
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I am also interested into get to know more about this.
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I am very new to the education world and I am fascinated.
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As teachers we must be in contact with all the new knowledge that is available nowadays, so that we can make the difference in the classroom. The 6 C’s of Education are important tools to prepare children for the challenges of the 21st Century.
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The educational approaches like steam,PBL and the makers movement guide the students to become citizens of the world
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The 6 C’s helps to a better understanding of the text.
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It is not easy to apply all this, but it is truly necessary, specially in Brazil. I believe that when all of these abilities are combined we are more prepared for the world we live in.
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I believe that this dynamic is the most effective to make students learn English contextualized in the real life. It is the way that can keep students motivated to learn a new language.
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I totally agree
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mind blowing new ideas and competencies.
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mind blowing new ideas and competencies.
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I also agree that we need to improve our knowledges on those researches to help our students to achieve their own goals on the process of learning a language or any other subject
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I totally agree. I spent a lot of time teaching with the Communicative Aproach and now taht I’m learning the 21st centuries skills I feel more motivated and I see a difference in students behaviour
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I agree. The situation of global society demonstrates that it is necessary to adapt the teaching model. The world has changed, but during this transition we teachers need to understand that planning a class requires more creativity and society has not yet realized the important mission of the teacher.
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I think it’s really important to never get comfortably into thinking you know anything as a whole and I like how the author has managed to take a concept which has been shared a lot and complemented it so we may keep improving our practices.
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The 6C’s of Educationof Education is very important to develop skills and abilities for teachers and students
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yes, it is
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Everybody has to take care of themselves nowadays, so these skills are helping and will help the students become more responsible humans. So it is very important for school to include these skills in their classes.
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I reckon that this text introduces the 6 C’s as skills that bring new possibilities to the classroomroom. It is a way to the explore the learners’ interests,a possibility to bring they to the spotlight and have their passions acknowledged. It also challenges students and teachers to want more, think more, create new paths to the learning experience.
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It is crucial that every segment in our social system changes. Technology is evolving fast and we are forced into learning what are we supposet to value in this new perspective of life. It is more than ever necessary to raise the awarenes of what competences we do need to improve to be able to survive in a near future. I am glad to know that there are many studies in this area.
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The 6 C’s of Education is a step-by-step for those who believe that Education can be a open door to a better future for our children.
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I really think we need to change the way that we give class,for a new challenge, but there is a problem to me the school is prepared to this new missiom? talking about tech.
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Great! I really agree with the text, really nice.
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I agree!
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It’s always a challenge and it’s exciting to know about the possibilities.
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I agree! We, as teachers, have to spend more time thinking and preparing our classes to integrate the 6 C’s, but the results are worth it. It means our students will be capable of dealing with a variety of situations, live peacefully in society and use different tools to solve problems.
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It’s verry important that teachers use the C’s in classroom given that is a new way of educating, that comtemplates a new and globalized world.
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I agree
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Yes, I think the same way.
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These skills are the most important thing that students need to know
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The 6 C’s are an amazing approach to daily classes focusing on the learning process
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I believe in the training of future adults with skills for the classroom, for 2 + 2. Social, emotional and intelligence skills to solve everyday problems.
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I agree
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I think tha this ideas will change the way classes are taught. An I think it´s going to be much better fos teachers and students.
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Although the learning process is full of surprises, it is a path that delights me and awakens my curiosity and love.
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yeah, that’s a very good way to analyze if our classes are being the richer we could make them be!
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I agreed with you, working witth all skills require a lotof preparation and plannig.
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able contribute to a better society and a better world.
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I agree with you. And with the demands of the 21st century, we should, as teachers, always be aware of new studies that can help us, especially the students.
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The 6C’s of Education are not new skills. They represent a teaching approach in which young people are prepared to thrive in the realities of today’s world.
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believe that to achieve these competences, we teachers must prepare ourselves and keep in mind that the new will reach more the interest and learning of our students.
in bilingual education, where CLIL is applied, it will be very interesting to apply content FROM THE TEXT ON COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS.
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No doubts it is a great challenge. we need to teach a new approach to the English language. Include the student as part of this learning process.
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I agree with you. And this preparation is necessary in a daily basis.
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I agree that skills can provide a new world, but, it’s hard to master the skills or even teach new ones. We should always be prepared for that.
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Yes, the teacher needs to make an effort to prepare himself to do a good job in the classroom.
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teaching sometimes can be a mission for life, its not a gift and we must understand our students past experience so we can achieve what is expected from our classes
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21st-century competencies. Skills, abilities, and competencies. It’s a challenge for teachers and students. Both are learning and growing simultaneously. Critical thinking is the way they see life and its different meanings according to cultural differences. It is challenging for us, however, we are possibly able to achieve it.
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+ as well as it depends on the commitment of the school.
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The skills are impoortant for us as teachers (planning) and also to produce the uptake to learners.
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I enjoyed reflecting about this skills and felt challenged to see my students interacting with this new perspective. It will require some adaptation, but I feel like they are already drawn to ideas that reflect the world today.
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I couldn’t agree more that skills should be personalised by each person individualy from their own perspective of the world
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The text helped us to have a general idea of tthe 21st Century Competencies. First of all, the way that Miller improved the concept show us that how everuthing is in moviment andwe need to rethink what we are doing in our class. It’s a really challenge think and prepare a class that the focus is not a grammar topic or aa vocabulary lesson. It’s scary think about a class that the students have a huge role in his own process of education. However theses points are necessary. We are talkning about a society in a globalized world with flexible bordes so we need to change the way the we teach. To apply the 6C’s requires a lot of planning and studing. I think one of the paths to try them is a planning based in Bloom’s taxonomy. Also it’s necessary a material that ialogues with the proposal. It is not possible to think of critical thinking and creativity with embedded materials, for example. Lastly, it’s important to think about our own reality. We have to adapt the method, material, posture, according to our students and their real life.
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As society grows, the educational needs grow aswell. If we’re able to follow the C’s that contribute to a more critical and able world, we’re doing it right. I agree with everything you typed, we need a good foundation to go through with this proposal. It takes a lot of adapting, but it’s not impossible!
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It’s really educational to separate these 6 Cs. Easy way for the teacher to recognize all the aspects that contribute to turning little kids into full grown citizens of the world.
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The 6 c’s is the best way to teach in 21 century!
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I totally agree! We have to help them to develop their own talents, thorough good methods (like Genious hour) and also guide them to be better human beings than the last generations.
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I truly believe that teaching and learning through a PBL perspective is imperative for teachers and students. We live in a society in which we have to face frustration on a daily basis and, with the old systems, students were leaving schools without ever having faced failure. PBL gives students the opportunity to be creative, learn to communicate with one another, be critical in the way they think, collaborate, be citizens and build their character towards finding solutions to real problems they may even find during their adult lives.
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I take a bit of issue with this rationale. I believe we must foster creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking, and try to create opportunities for students to become responsible citizens, but that is not because I want them to become good employees – it is because I want to be part of a system that raises young humans to become sensible adults in the future.
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Nowadays it’s important to emphasize values and skills of our children. To get a job they need to develop problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt, all these will only be reached if we change the way we educate them, that’s why teachers need to be in constant evolvement and explore student’s talents.
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