West+Virginia

=== __West Virginia__ **A System Redesign:** 21st cetnruy learning is a redesgin of the education system that affects how district offices, schools, and classrooms are structured and has at its core the mission to develop self-directed, motivated learners who can demonstrate the skills and knowledge that are foundational for the workforce of the future. **Focused on Rigorous World-Class Content and 21st Century Skills:** 21st century learning is bulit on world-class curriculum standards for both content and skills. It graduates students who have mastered core content while also cultivating an understanding of global awareness, financial economic and business literacy, civic literacy, and personal health and wellness. It features the importance of 21st century skills focusing on the development of (1) Information and Communication PRocessing Skills (2) Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills, and (3) Personal and Workplace Productivity Skills. **Taught and Assessed Using Engaging, Relevant Processes:** 21st century instructional processes develop learners who have deep understanding of and the ability to apply knowledge to authentic real-world situations. Instruction in a 21st century classroom places emphasis on student self-direction and developing the ability, confidence and curiousity to learn. Foundational to 21st century leaaring is the use of 21st century technology tools and classroom assessments for learning that guide the instructional process. **Prepares all students to Succeed in the Globally Competitive Society in Which They Will Live:** By focusing the educational system on 21st century learning, students will be prepared to embrace the challenges of the global society in which they will live. By developing deep understanding of knowledge and enduring thinking and learning skills, students will be able to adapt to a rapidly changing world and assume productive roles as family members, citizens, workers, and leaders in a complex competitive digital age of the 21st century.   ...The learner's pre-k thorugh 12 curriclula should result in prodficiency in three borad areas:  **1. 21st Century Skills and Technology Tools:** 21st century skills are categorized in three broad areas that integrate the use of technology with the development of specific skills. The areas are: (1) Information and Communication Processing Skills (information and media literacy; visual literacy; and oral, written, and multimedia communication skills), (2) Thinking and problem-Solving Skills (critical thinking, systems thinking, problems solving, and creating and innovation), and (3) Personal and Workplace Productivity Skills (Interpersonal and collabaoration skills, self directions, adaptability, ethical behavior, social/personal acountability, leadership and project planning and development).  **2. Core Subjects:** The core curriculum for the 21st centruy is expanded beyond the traditional basics to include the following subjects as essential for all students: reading and English/language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, histroy, geography and the arts. At each programmatic level, specific requirments related to these core subjects are defined in policy. Across the curriculum sequence, there must be an overall emphasis on increased rigor and higher standards for student performance.  **3. 21st Century Interdisciplinary Content:** Within the curriculum sequence, 21st century curriculum content themes permeate the life of the school in both classroom and schoolwide activities. These themes are global awareness; financial, economic, and business literacy, civic literacy; and personal health and wellness. These themes are developed at each programatic level based on the characteristics and needs of the learners; experiences around each theme should result in learners who have the knowldege, skills, and dispositions to be personally responsible and act as informed citizens of their school and community. The specifics of how each area is integrated into the life of the school are determined through a collaborative staff planning process that results in a consistent and pervasive focus on 21st century content.   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;"> ===