1. Parent Focus Session 1.
Past V
Present

2. What’s Your
Stance?

3. What is your stance?
STANCE

4. Today’s
Classroom
Video 1. Sir Ken
Robinson: Do
schools kill
creativity?
Video 2. A
Kunyung Classroom

5. How are the ideas presented connected to
what you already knew?
What new ideas did you get that extended or
broadened your thinking in new directions?
What challenges or puzzles have come up in
your mind from the ideas and information
presented?
Connect-Extend-Challenge

6. Skills needed for the 21st
Century

7. What are the skills
you use?

8. Think
Write three answers or ideas you have about
this question or problem.
Pair
Discuss your ideas with a partner. Check any
ideas above that your partner also wrote down.
Write down ideas your partner had that you did
not have here.
Share
Review all of your ideas and circle the one you
think is most important. One of you will share
this idea with the whole group.
As you listen to the ideas of the whole group, write down three you liked.
Think- Pair – Share

9. Thinking
Acquisition of knowledge;
comprehension; application; analysis,
synthesis, evaluation, dialectical
thought, metacognition.
5 Skill Sets

10. Social skills
Accepting responsibility; respecting
others; cooperating, resolving conflict;
group decision-making; adopting a
variety of group roles.

11. Communication skills
Listening; speaking; reading; writing;
viewing; presenting; non-verbal
communication.

12. Self – management
skills
Gross motor skills; fine motor skills;
spatial awareness; organization; time
management; safety; healthy lifestyle;
codes of behaviour; informed choices

13. Research skills
Formulating questions; observing;
planning; collecting data; recording
data; organizing data; interpreting
data; presenting research findings

14. BUS STOP

15. The Mission Statement