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21 -century curriculum for
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the 21 -century learners

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21 -century skills equip the learners with a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and
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character traits that enable them to face the challenges of the 21 -century world that is globally
active, digitally transforming, collaboratively moving forward, creatively progressing, seeking
competent human-resource and quick in adopting changes.

Learning & Innovative Skills Life & Career Skills Literacy Skills

• Critical Thinking & Problem • Flexibility & Adaptability • Information Literacy
Solving • Leadership & Responsibility • Media Literacy
• Creativity & Innovation • Initiative & Self-Direction • Technology Literacy

• Communication & • Productivity & Accountability
Collaboration
• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills

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15 Freedom
Freedom
India-centric content freedom. Theme: Animals
Time to start
Time to start
Time to start
What do you understand by freedom? Tick (3) the situations which depict
1. You participated in a debate in class.
Content that is strongly rooted in the Indian 4. You are afraid to speak in the morning assembly.
2. You are alone at home for a day. You can do whatever you want.
3. Your mother asked you to buy vegetables from the market.
and local context and ethos in order to ensure Now, read the poem.
5. Your father encourages you to pursue a career in music.
that education is maximally relatable, relevant, I claim for you my motherland!
Freedom from fear is the freedom
interesting, and effective for the learners. breaking your back, blinding your eyes to the beckoning
Freedom from the burden of the ages, bending your head,
call of the future;
Freedom from the shackles of slumber wherewith
Pages 16, 111, 129, 140 mistrusting the star that speaks of truth’s adventurous paths; shackles: (here) something
you fasten yourself in night’s stillness,
what you want to
140 freedom from the anarchy of destiny that prevents you from doing
anarchy: a state of disorder
4. His father served in the . Royal Air Fighter
Regal Air Force Regal Air Fighter
Royal Air Force
5. He read works of . Charles Dickens All of them
Charlotte Brontë Rudyard Kipling Art integration
Time to speak
Suppose you are Binya. Tell your classmates about your experience of losing the blue
umbrella and what made you give to Ram Bharosa. You may begin like this.
21 st c collaboration and communication
art integration role-play
One day, I was out with my goats in the jungle. It was afternoon and the hot sun made me drowsy. I fell
asleep under the cool shade of a tree when…
Time to write A cross-curricular approach based on collaboration
Informal letters are letters written to friends, parents, relatives and siblings, so the tone is usually
Suppose you are Ram Bharosa. You feel sorry for stealing Binya’s umbrella and at the between the teaching of subject with the teaching
friendly and casual.
same time want to thank her for giving you the umbrella. Write a letter expressing both
your guilt and gratitude towards the little girl. You may use the format given below.
(sender’s address) of art that encourages creativity, collaboration
(date) and social skills among learners by taking part in
(salutation)
(body) different activities and performing in groups.
(complimentary close)
(signature) 41
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