Life Skills for All Learners: How to Teach, Assess, and Report Education's New Essentials
In early 2024, we released a groundbreaking book on cultivating essential life skills for student success in our complex world. Authored by our Founder and CEO, Antarina Amir, with Dr. Thomas Guskey, a renowned assessment expert from the University of Kentucky, this book provides practical guidance on teaching, assessing, and reporting student progress.
Recognizing a critical gap in education—the lack of a comprehensive system for nurturing these vital skills—we created this resource. With educators still seeking clarity on these skills nearly a quarter into the 21st century, we're proud to offer a complete solution.
“Want to know how to teach and assess 21st century skills in both elementary and secondary classrooms? Then read this book! Ms. Amir and her colleagues have written an invaluable "how-to" that is filled with clear and practical advice.”
Tony Wagner, M.A.T, Ed.D
- Best-selling author and senior research fellow
- Learning Policy Institute
John Hattie
University of Melbourne
“I have long been in search of a resource about how to teach students to think aloud, expose and enhance their thinking skills, and apply this improved thinking to tackle more complex tasks. I've found it—this book! The authors have developed a symbiotic relationship between research and practice with the aim to make learning visible. To focus on meta-learning and the intentional process of reflecting on one's own and others' thinking, the goal is to teach students to think aloud so as to develop critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaboration skills. By design, they help students observe the thinking involved in success cases, replicate this thinking, and add value to the thinking.”
Learner Outcomes Rubrics Development For Life Skills
Redea Institute aims to develop “total child” quality in its students--that is for students to develop academically, intrapersonally, interpersonally, and physically. To bring this mission into action, we develop the Redea Institute Learner Outcomes. This is our formulation of a set of life skills our graduates will master once they graduate from our school. The life skills were designed within a comprehensive learning and assessment system. We conducted literature research and field observation to develop the rubric as the assessment.
Learner Outcomes Achievement of Grade 12 Students (2016)
Redea Institute endeavors to ensure that a designed school program is aligned with an objective to produce graduates who are future-ready. Graduates who are ready for the future encompass a number of qualities or life skills, such as expert thinking, creativity and innovation, audience-centered communication, and synergistic collaboration, among others. These life skills are referred to as the Redea Institute Learner Outcomes. In 2016, the Learner Outcomes assessment system was in its early stage of development. We believe that it is imperative to study our grade 12 students' Learner Outcomes achievement since the early stage of development, to capture opportunities for improvement.
Teachers' Understanding & Practices In Applying Highscope Indonesia Learner Outcomes
This research is a continuation of the 2016 research, examining the factors influencing student achievement of the Learner Outcomes. It examines how teachers implement the seven key components of the school's learning process: rigorous learning content, comprehensive assessment, strategies, atmosphere, environment, activities, and support. We believe that the implementation of these components affects the quality of our students' achievement in the Learner Outcomes.
