Student Competition
Celebrate learning and achievement by igniting your students’ competitive spirits.
Competition motivates us all to perform our best, especially if there’s a reward. For students, competition offers an opportunity to take calculated risks and use real world skills like problem solving, innovative thinking, and collaboration.
![Judges in front of a giant tropy](https://realworld.digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/10/tile_competition@3x.png)
How does this fit with my class?
![Proud students at an event](https://realworld.digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/10/hoang-le-dieu-huyen-HvVm5tYORmE-unsplash-1024x678.jpg)
Student competition skills are important compliments to classroom learning with a focus on academic performance. Plus, integrating real world professionals as judges provides students with invaluable feedback and experiences.
Objectives
- Collaborate with peers
- Practice public speaking and answer questions effectively
- Present information and materials to meet a standard or rubric
- Develop verbal and nonverbal communication skills
- Learn how to balance different viewpoints
- Understand and utilize feedback
- Develop self-confidence and motivation
- Learn to succeed through failure and value positive competition
Activity Location
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In school
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Out of school
Prep Time
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Scope
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What will my students gain?
From the Partnership for 21st Century Learning Framework:
Creativity & Innovation
- Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
- View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Effectively solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways
- Effectively identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
- Effectively interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
- Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
Communication & Collaboration
- Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
- Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
Information, Media, and Technology Skills
- Evaluate information critically and competently
- Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
- Use technology as a tool to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information
Life & Career Skills
- Deal positively with praise, setbacks and criticism
- Set goals with tangible and intangible success criteria
- Utilize time and manage workload efficiently