Skills for the 21st Century

1. Skills for the 21st Century

2. Main Points • A new renaissance is upon us • Career development is workforce development • Career counselors have powerful tools to support optimal career development

3. Modernity and Self-Identity • Historical Context of Work • In search of the “good ole days”

4. Traditional Career Theory • PE Fit Models • Life-Span/Life-Space • Social Cognitive Career Theory

5. Contemporary Development Theory • Developmental Contextualism • Selection, Optimization, Compensation • Self-Determination Theory

6. Secretary’s Commission for Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) • Personal Qualities • Responsibility • Self-Confidence • Social Skills • Honesty • Basic Skills • Reading and Writing • Mathematics • Communication • Thinking Skills • Decision-making • Creative Thinking • Problem-Solving • “Learning How to Learn”

7. SCANS Competencies • Ability to Manage Personal Time and Resources • Use of Effective Interpersonal and Leadership Skills • Ability to Gather and Manage Information • Understanding of Interrelatedness of Various Systems • Effective Use of Technology

10. 21st Century Skills • Learning Skills • Thinking Skills • Life Skills • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving • Collaborative Communication Skills • People Skills • Personal Responsibility • Ethics • Adaptability Source: Wisconsin’s Leadership for 21st Century Skills

11. Resilience • Building Confidence • Establishing Stronger Relational Connections • Managing Academic Stress • Promoting Well-Being • Increasing Motivation

12. Social/Emotional Antecedents of School Success Motivation .22 Academic Success .66 .43 .47 Connections Retention .17 .23 .12 Confidence Health .25

13. Classifying Risk Levels • Most Vulnerable • Vulnerable • Disengaged • Resilient • Moderately Resilient • Not At Risk

15. International Classification of Functioning Model of Development Development Performance Birth Adolescence Adult

16. 21st Century Optimal Career Development Indicators • Adaptability • Self-Determination • Engagement • Career Search Self-Efficacy • Resilience • Agency

17. Career Development Is Workforce Development

18. Wisconsin Industry Clusters • Manufacturing – • 528,000 jobs; • 20 percent of the state’s personal income. • Agriculture • 20% of all jobs • Tourism • 323,000 jobs; • $6.6 billion in revenue Source: http://commerce.wi.gov/BDdocs/BD-PR-ClusterPaper102703.pdf

19. WI Industry Clusters http://commerce.wi.gov/BDdocs/BD-PR-ClusterPaper102703.pdf

20. Emerging Industry Clusters • Biotechnology and medical equipment • 28,000 jobs • $4.9 billion in revenue • Information Technology • 94,000 jobs http://commerce.wi.gov/BDdocs/BD-PR-ClusterPaper102703.pdf

21. Key to Strategic Alignment for Economic Growth Effective workforce development begins with business, school, and post-secondary education, and support centers establishing a common and shared definition of the problem and working together to articulate solutions

22. Business Roles • Occupations • Youth apprenticeships • Role models who participate in schools • Training and retraining • Witnessing efforts • Supporting innovation • Designing new learning environments

23. Education Roles • Be open to collaboration and change • Expand school mission into community workforce development and learning centers • Incubate innovation and change

24. Post-Secondary Education • Technical colleges coordinate the collaborative efforts • Two-Year and Four-Year UW Colleges and Universities follow and bring resources to support the collaborative efforts

25. Support Centers • Job Centers • Shelters • Correctional Institutions • Day Treatment Centers • Religious Affiliations

26. Sample Career Development Resources • WISCareers and WC-Connections • Success Highways

27. …if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. –Malcolm X

28. Individualized Interpretations

29. Individualized Interpretations

30. Mastery and Vicarious Experiences embedded in Written Exercises

31. Building social connections between students, adults and peers • Using strategic conversational dialogues to engage students in defining their own challenges and solutions

32. Generating Conversations PRESSURE pressure: an oppressive condition of physical, mental, social, or economic distress; feeling the burden of multiple obligations

34. First Semester Impact

35. Longitudinal Impact on Grades 3 + Lessons 2 or Less

36. V. Scott Solberg, Ph. D., is Director of Wisconsin Careers, a unit within the Center on Education and Work and author of Success Highways, a research based dropout prevention curriculum for at-risk youth. www.cew.wisc.edu www.wisconsincareers.wisc.edu ssolberg@education.wisc.edu WISCareers Login Code: Click register then enter wbm-p435