Starfire 21st Century Skills tutoring will help students learn study skills, study habits and time management skills. Guided by Starfire tutors, students learn to become global conceptual thinkers who make connections across disciplines, gain a deep understanding of concepts, improve their interpersonal, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation skills.

21st Century Skills tutoring gives students a lifelong learning edge.

Success Drivers for the 21st Century

• Growth Mindset

• Grit

• Time Management

• Study Skills, Study Habits and Attitudes Toward Studying

• Communication & Collaboration

• Creativity & Innovation

Outcomes

• Starfire tutors inspire, motivate, and encourage their students to grow and excel in their academic and creative endeavors. They develop a love of learning and inquisitiveness. Starfire strategies and techniques will help students with school and life in ways that will improve their performance, confidence, and belief in what they are capable of achieving.

Curriculum

• Personal Responsibility

  • Take responsibility for your personal growth and make a commitment to long-term goals

• Mindsets & Motivation

  • Adopt a growth mindset: understand that intelligence can be increased with effort
            Understand the connection between grit, learning, and accomplishment

• Goal Setting

  • Set goals and define objectives

• Organization & Time Management

  • Organize information

  • Prioritize

  • Plan & manage time

• Cognitive Processing

  • Become a better learner

  • Listen effectively

  • Take useful notes

  • Improve focus and increase concentration

  • Absorb new knowledge into long term memory

• Communication and Collaboration

  • One-to-one

  • Work with others to achieve a shared goal

• Higher Level Thinking

  •  21st century mind: Global conceptual thinker who makes connections across academic disciplines

  • Apply concepts

  • Analyze

  • Synthesize

  • Evaluate

  • Reason deductively: Hypothesize - make predictions based on generalizations

  • Reason inductively: Draw generalities from specifics

  • Problem solve

  • Think critically

  • Think creatively

  • Decision making

• Create & Innovate

  • Skill development and mastery

  • The role of exploration, innovation, and tinkering

  • Problem solving, product development, framing new questions