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The 21st century skills

At the beginning of the 21st century more than 200 organizations and leading companies in the world have introduced a list of skills that young people need to be successful in today's globalized and changing world.

The purpose of the educational approach at Novopecherska school is to develop 21st century skills of our pupils. They are:

Educational and innovative skills

Creativity and innovation:

  • the ability to be original and innovative;
  • developing, implementing and communicating new ideas to others;
  • openness to new diverse perspectives;
  • working on creative ideas for making a meaningful and useful contribution to the branch of knowledge in which innovation is implemented.

Critical thinking and problem solving:

  • understanding links between ideas;
  • determining the importance and relevance of arguments and ideas;
  • recognising, building and appraising arguments;
  • approaching problems in a consistent and systematic way;
  • defining a problem;
  • determining and setting the essential questions to clarify the different points of view, allowing to make better decisions;
  • designing, analysing and synthesizing of information in order to solve problems and answer questions.

Communication and cooperation skills:

  • effective formulation of thoughts and ideas through their clear and understandable expression and writing;
  • demonstration of the efficient collaboration with various groups;
  • flexibility and willingness to use necessary compromises to implement common objectives;
  • taking responsibility for collaboration;
  • understanding the role of effective communication, creation and usage of its various types such as verbal, written and, also, by using multimedia tools in different forms and conditions.

Ability to work with information, media and computer:

Information awareness:

  • ability to find information quickly and effectively, evaluate it critically and competently, use it correctly and creatively to solve problems;
  • basic understanding of ethical / legal issues related to the information access and its use.

Media awareness:

  • understanding the characteristics and principles of media messages, their purposes, and what tools and conditions they are made with;
  • figuring out ways to interpret the information by different people, the inclusion or absence of different points of view, depending on media awareness messages, norms and values, ​​perspectives and understanding of how media can influence thought and behavior;
  • understanding the background and basic principles of ethical / legal issues related to  information access and its use.

ICT Awareness

  • appropriate use of digital technologies, tools and communication networks for accessing, managing, integrating, evaluating and creating data information in order to function in society successfully;
  • using computer technologies for communication, research, organization, assessment, and understanding of the ethical / legal issues related to information access and usage.

Life and career skills

Flexibility and adaptability

  • adaptation to different roles and levels of responsibility;
  • effective work in conditions of ambiguity and changing priorities;

Initiative and self direction

  • awareness of personal education and understanding needs for it;
  • going beyond the current skill requirements and study program to expand their own experience and reach educational goals;
  • taking initiative to improve skills to achieve a higher professional level;
  • set key learning objectives and reach them without any supervision;
  • efficient time management and workload distribution;
  • willingness and ability to learn throughout life.

Social and multicultural skills

  • proper and productive work with others;
  • using the group cooperative intelligence to achieve goals;
  • recognition of cultural differences and use different perspectives to increase innovation and work quality.

Productivity and ability to find out and consider quantitative indicators

  • establishment and following high standards and goals for qualified and well-timed performance;
  • demonstrating diligence and good work ethic e.g. punctuality and reliability.

Leadership and responsibility

  • using interpersonal and problem solving skills to influence others and maintain their goals;
  • using strengths of the others in oder to achieve a common goal;
  • reveiling honest and ethical behaviour;
  • activities in accordance with interests of a wide community.
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