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Eighty-five percent of the jobs our current students will have in 2030 don’t exist yet, according to a report from Institute for the Future. How are we, as teachers, supposed to prepare students for jobs that don’t exist yet?

I address this question as a K–5 media specialist by focusing on the four C’s: creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. A robot may be able to check your items out at the grocery store, but it can’t think critically for you. Here are four skills that are preparing my students not just for middle school, but for their future careers.

1) Typing

Typing may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of skills for the jobs of the future, but it is fundamental. Whether they graduate with degrees in engineering, business, computer programming or education, students will spend hours using a keyboard for both professional and personal reasons.