21st century skills
Vantage Education is an enrichment learning resource organisation, producing teaching and educational materials for primary schools, secondary schools, parents, home educators, special educational needs, adult education and international markets.
Our aim is to ‘drive the conversation about the subjects that will be beneficial to children in the years ahead, creating resource information that can be used and taught by teachers in a variety of styles’.
Increasingly, there is a movement towards introducing important ‘soft’ skills, which are the character traits and interpersonal attributes that characterise a person’s relationships with other people. In the workplace, soft skills are considered a complement to hard skills, which refer to a person’s knowledge and occupational skills.
The modules are designed to cater for Upper KS 2 (Ages 10 – 11 / Years 5 – 6) and for Lower KS 3 (Ages 12 – 13 / Years 7 – 8) pupils.
See what key skills our skills-based modules develop
Our objective is to create:
- Successful learners who enjoy learning; make good progress and achieve excellence
- Confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
- Responsible citizens who can make a positive contribution to society
See what modules we have available for you
The 21st Century Skills offer two branches
1. Our Learning Assessments
The differentiated learning assessments act as guidelines for facilitators to understand key focal points that are of need to each student.
Teachers are to deliver these quick and fun assessments in PSHE lesson time, over a period of weeks, to their pupils. Teachers can select the best and most appropriate assessment subjects per class.
As schools only test pupils academically, this is an opportunity for pupils to develop other key life skills areas.
This is designed for parents to understand what hidden aptitudes their children (ages: 14-18) may have, make any provisions in their child’s development and take on new home-based education subjects to develop these subject skills.
Each assessment contains: situational-based multiple choice questions. Each assessment is to last between 5-10 minutes each, in a classroom environment, per pupil. There are no right or wrong answers, only feedback on a child’s psychological thinking.
At the end of each term (12 weeks), teachers can send home the data sheets (answers to the questions) to parents for their review. These can discussed during parent evenings as well.
2. Skills-based modules
These include:
- Group Based learning – eg. Communication skills, Integrity, Individuality
- Emotional learning – eg. Persistence, Anger, Courage, Emotional Empathy
- Improving confidence and listening – eg. Self-esteem, Negotiation skills
These modules were developed to:
- Create an aspirational high achievement culture
- Take into account individual needs and styles
- Allow everyone to experience success
- Raise standards of attainment
- Provide a targeted support and additional challenges to ensure all students make at least national rates of progress
Our modules cater for pupils’ differences in learning styles including:
- Visual (spatial): You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding
- Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music
- Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing
- Physical (kinaesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch
- Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems
- Social (interpersonal): You prefer to learn in groups or with other people
- Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study
The critical skills that Vantage Education examines
1) Skills related to interacting with others in the world
2) Skills related to thinking about the world
3) Skills related to adapting to the world
4) Skills related to solving problems in the world
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