Four Life-Long Skills Taught, Assessed, and Reported in WTS
What will students learn to do?
Throughout this course, WTS learners track and reflect on their progress as they learn how to:
- Manage their growth as independent and team-based learners.
- Be strategic and empathic change agents.
- Communicate clearly and effectively to understand and be understood.
- Share the stories of their most valuable unexpected learning.
What content will students learn?
WTS students learn the content knowledge (vocabulary/terminology) associated with:
- the topic they pursue;
- the art of storytelling;
- making multimodal narratives;
- systems and change theory;
- learning in a digital ecosystem;
- teamwork.
What will students come to understand?
Throughout the course, learners will revisit these big ideas:
- We are smartest when we work together toward a common cause.
- Storytelling is one of the oldest, most effective, and most valuable ways to communicate and persuade.
- Successful change agents seek to understand issues in all of their complexity to become clear about purpose, audience, stakes, and strategy.
- Learning (and effecting positive change) requires risk-taking, mistake-making, timely feedback, and perseverance.
- Learning works best when learners pursue their most pressing questions in a supportive, collaborative, and resource-rich setting.