The Five Cs, Plus One by Pat Bassett NAIS Bassett Blog 11/9/2012

The “Five Cs” of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, character and the bonus “Sixth C” I’ve recently added: cosmopolitanism (cross-cultural competency)

Now that most of our schools have finished “backward designing” and “mapping” subjects (math, language arts, science, foreign language, social studies/history, the arts, etc.), it’s time to do so for the six Cs: What’s your K-12 creativity map? Your collaboration map? Your character map? Your cosmopolitanism/cross-cultural competency map?