Tuesday, November 19: Advancing Global Competency: Assessing Student Learning of Twenty-First-Century Skills - a webinar cohosted by the Alliance and Asia Society from 1 to 2:15 PM EST

Laura Hamilton, PhD, Senior Behavior Scientist, RAND Corporation

Mariana Haynes, PhD, Senior Fellow, Alliance for Excellent Education

Anthony Jackson, PhD, Vice President for Education, Asia Society

Gen Ling Chang, Associate Director, Toronto District School Board (Ontario, Canada)

Please join the Alliance for Excellent Education and Asia Society for a webinar on measuring twenty-first-century skills - the central focus of a RAND report presented at the October 2013 meeting of the Global Cities Education Network in Singapore. The Asia Society organized the Global Cities Education Network, which works to identify internationally informed practices in urban school systems in North America and Asia to transform learning and achieve equity.

This webinar will focus on the design of "state-of-the-art" measures of student proficiency in critical thinking, problem solving, and related twenty-first-century skills essential to succeeding in a technologically advanced, interconnected global economy. The panelists will explore the challenges educators face in eliciting and assessing student outcomes beyond simple academic content knowledge. They will examine what this means for designing curricula and models of professional development that provide teachers with the knowledge and skills to help all students attain high-level cognitive and interpersonal skills. Panelists will also address questions submitted by webinar viewers from across the country.