21st Century Skills Vital to SUCCESS

The Arts Teach Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

• Articulating thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively using oral, written and non-verbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
• ​Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.

The Arts Teach Communication

• Demonstrating originality and incentiveness in work.
• Being open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives.
• Acting on creating ideas.
• View failure as an opportunity to learn: understand tat creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes.

The Arts Teach Creativity

• Demonstrating ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Exercising flexibility and willingness in making compromises to accomplish a common goal.
• Assuming shared responsibility for collaborative work, and the value the individual contributions made by each team member.
• Making complex choices and decisions
• Understanding the interconnectedness among systems.
• Framing, analyzing, and synthesizing information in order to solve problems.

The Arts Teach Collaboration

• Exercising sound reasoning in understanding.
• Making complex choices and decisions.
• Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems.
• Interpret information and draw conclusions bast on best analysis.
• Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes.