the 21st century teacher and learner

The 21st Century Teacher and Learner

K to 12 classifications of the 21st Century Skills

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Curriculum Exits


Curriculum Exits


1. Visual and information literacies

2. Media literacy3. Basic, scientific,

economic and technological literacies and multicultural literacy

4. Global awareness

1. Creativity and curiosity2. Critical thinking

problem solving skills3. Risk taking

1. Collaboration and interpersonal skills

1. Flexibility and adaptability

2. Initiative and self-direction

3. Social and cross-cultural skills

4. Productivity and accountability

5. Leadership and responsibility

6. Ethical, moral and spiritual values

Creativity and innovation

Critical thinking and problem solving

Communication and collaboration

Learning and

Innovation Skills

Access and evaluate informationUse and manage informationAnalyze mediaCreate media productsApply technology effectively

Info, Media,

Techskills

Life and Career Skills

• Flexibility and adaptability

• Initiative and self-direction

• Social and cross-cultural skills

• Productivity and Accountability

• Leadership and responsibility

Characteristics of a 21st Century Learner


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by Palfrey and GasserKnowledge Network for Innovations in

Learning and Teaching (KNILT)

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The AdaptorThe Communicator The Learner

The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker

Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher

21st Century Educators are able to adapt

1. the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways;

2. software and hardware designed for a business model into tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and abilities to a dynamic teaching experience.

3. teaching style to be inclusive of different modes of learning.



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker


The 21st Century teacher, as a communicator, must be fluent in tools and technologies that enable communication and collaboration anywhere, anytime. They do not only know how to do communication, they also know how to facilitate, stimulate, control, moderate, and manage communication.



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker


The 21st Century teacher, as a learner, must • be lifelong learners;• continue to absorb

experiences and knowledge;• endeavor to stay current;• change and learn as the

horizons and landscape changes.



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker

Characteristics of a 21st Century TeacherThe 21st Century teacher, as a visionary, must have rich imagination to:• see the potential in, grasp, and

manipulate the emerging tools and web technologies;

• look at others’ ideas and envisage how they would use these in their class;

• looks across the disciplines and through the curricula and make links that reinforce and value learning in other areas; and

• make other fields as leverage to reinforce their own teaching and the learning of their students



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker


The 21st Century teacher, as a leader,• leads by example by

championing processes and modeling skills—walks the talk;

• is an advocator, early adopter—a maverick;

• set clear goals and objectives crucial to the success of a project



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker


The 21st Century teacher, as a model, should model• the behaviors that they expect from

their students—tolerance, acceptance, a wider view than just their curricula areas, global awareness, and reflection

• reflective practice by monitoring and evaluating their teaching via blogs, twitter and other medium where educators can look both inwards and outwards



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker


The 21st Century teacher, as a collaborator, must be able to• leverage collaborative tools like

Linkedin, Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces, Bebo, MSN, MySpace, Slideshare, Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook to enhance and captivate our learners

• Share, contribute, adapt and invent using these collaborative tools



The Visionary

The Leader

The Model

The Collaborator

The Risk taker

Characteristics of a 21st Century TeacherThe 21st Century teacher, as a risk taker, must • have a vision of what s/he wants and

what the technology can achieve to be able to identify goals and facilitate learning

• take risks and sometimes surrender to the students’ knowledge and use the strengths of these digital natives to

understand and navigate products

have students teach each other

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What must 21st century teachers do to develop critical thinking in students?

•Commitment•Competence•Creativity•Compassion•Character

21st Century Teaching and Learning


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IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

1.Teachers and students are all learners

2.The focus is more on questions, less on answers

3.Understanding is more important than knowing

4.Innovation and exploration are part of learning

5.We connect and learn with the world




.21st century teaching and learning must be based on the following broad skills:

1.Collaborative inquiry to solve real and

relevant problems

2.Creativity and innovation

3.Critical thinking and

problem-solving

4.Communication




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Technology, then, is what supports and enables this kind of learning and engages students by:1.Providing learning—anywhere, anytime2.Supporting teacher innovation and capacity

building3.Enhancing equity of access through the use of

personal devices and internet resources4.Using social media to support inquiry and

communication while building social responsibility and digital literacy

5.Strengthening connections with parents

20th Century Learning VS 21st Century Learning


20th Century Learning = learning content21st Century Learning = learning the tools and skills to

remake the content to become the producer and creator

~Diana Rhoten

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Provide crossword and word search puzzles for your students in order to address vocabulary or to introduce new topics in your lessons.

You may visit this site:http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com

Some Quick Suggested TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

RUBISTAR www.rubistar.4teachers.org

"The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.“ – Maria Montessori

Thank You!

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