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21st century skills

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Transforming To 21st Century Learning Environments: Best Practices Revealed Through A Study Of Exemplar Schools, Kelly S. Wilbert Dec 2016

Transforming To 21st Century Learning Environments: Best Practices Revealed Through A Study Of Exemplar Schools, Kelly S. Wilbert

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Transforming to 21st Century Learning Environments: Best Practices Revealed through a Study of Exemplar Schools

by Kelly Wilbert

As the world’s economy shifted from the Industrial age to the Knowledge age, the prerequisites of current and future careers also transformed. Trends revealed that students in school now are preparing for jobs that do not currently exist. Investigating strategies to meet the challenge of transforming instructional practices was a focus of this research. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to identify and describe best practices used at elementary schools in California recognized as exemplary by the Partnership for …