Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

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THECLASSROOMSTRATEGIESSERIES book provides an excellent synthesis of theory, research, instructional design, and assessment techniques “forThehelping students learn 21st century skills. ” — CHRIS DEDE, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Marzano and Heflebower have made a valuable contribution to the growing 21st century skills movement. “Their book offers both a sound theoretical framework and many useful starting points for practitioners. ” —TONY WAGNER, Innovation Education Fellow, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard

Marzano and Heflebower skillfully bridge the gap between a well-articulated framework of 21st century skills “and practical approaches useful to teachers who wish to promote such skills in the classroom. Teaching and

Assessing 21st Century Skills provides an important balance between the cognitive and conative skills necessary for our students to be both professionally and personally successful in our fast-changing world. The clear-cut rationale for these abilities, the highly practical examples, and the assessment methods offered by the authors will no doubt render this book an invaluable tool to educators who wish to equip their students with the thinking and emotional skills of the highest order.

Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

—GERARD J. PUCCIO, Chair and Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State—The State University of New York ROBERT J. MARZANO

Part of The Classroom Strategies series, this clear, highly practical guide follows the series format, first summarizing key research and then translating it into recommendations for classroom practice.

TAMMY HEFLEBOWER

Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills presents a model of instruction and assessment based on a combination of cognitive skills (academic) and conative skills (interpersonal) necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Using the strategies of authors Robert J. Marzano and Tammy Heflebower, K–12 teachers can prepare every student for the highly varied and ever-changing knowledge economy of the 21st century.

ROBERT J.

MARZANO

TAMMY

HEFLEBOWER

Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skil s

Visit marzanoresearch.com/classroomstrategies to download the reproducibles in this book. Marzano Research is a joint venture between Solution Tree and Dr. Robert J. Marzano. Marzano Research combines Dr. Marzano’s forty years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling.

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