Integrating a 21st Century

Mindset

About the speaker • James Hall has been working with young learners since 2004

• English Teacher in Canada & Korea

• Teacher Trainer in Canada, USA, Mexico, Egypt, Korea, Japan, China, Thailand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Peru, Ecuador, Cambodia, & Taiwan

• Content Development Professional as a writer and editor for more than twenty publications

• Academic Consultant providing course design and curriculum planning to educational institutions

• Publisher with Compass Publishing

About today’s mission! • Learn about CLIL content and use in the classroom with the

awesome new book Integrate

• Examine the changing world of learning

• 21ST Century Learning overview – Communication

– Collaboration

– Creativity

– Critical Thinking

– Digital Literacy

• Activities that help us practice 21C learning

• Get SUPER MOTIVATED to change the world!!

Integrate Basic 1-4 & Building 1-4

CLIL Contents

Language Focused Learning Support

1

• Comprehension to ensure

understanding

2

• Reading skill: develops

critical thinking and higher

order thinking skills

3

• Apply the reading skill to

summarize the content

learned in the passage

Reading Skill Development

1

• Writing skill: develops critical

thinking and higher order

thinking skills

2

• Writing plan: synthesizes

reading skill from Lesson A &

Writing skill from Lesson B

3

• Apply the synthesized reading

& writing skill to complete a

h/w assignment in the PB

Video

21C LEARNING

The changing needs of learners

What do today’s students need from their education?

What will they need in the workplace?

Apply and

assess info

Memorize

info

Education is changing…

IMPO

RTA

NCE

Success is no longer about knowing more than another person.

Movement away from rote learning and accumulation of knowledge

21C skills require application and assessment of knowledge (creativity and critical thinking) within

meaningful context (communication & cooperation) through new forms of input and

output (digital literacy)

Communication (with a cultural mindset)

Communication

Students’ ability to

• persuade

• share information, thoughts, and opinions clearly

• motivate others

• instruct others

• listen effectively

• Different formats: – Spoken, written, and multimedia messages

We learn language to communicate!

Language is a thinking mechanism.

Developing a Cultural Mindset • Provide scaffolding and higher-order thinking skills to

allow learners to develop their ideas within the context of their L2 rather than simple transference of the idea from their L1 to the L2.

• Create the environment through communicative-content mindset structures, which support learners to understand and explain their ideas with mindfulness and reasoning in a cultural context.

Cultural awareness The ability to think and understand concepts across cultures

Learning with a Cultural Mindset

• The goal of learning cultural instruction is to

– de-center learners from their own culture-based assumptions

– develop an intercultural identity which results from an engagement with additional cultures.

• The borders between self and others are explored, scrutinized, and redrawn.

The main point of language through communication is taking down walls… not putting them up

21C communication means

Learners need: • exposure to information about other cultures • explicit instruction about cultural differences

and similarities • exposure to different varieties of English

(vocabulary and accents)

Accountable Talk • Teacher prepares a set of “stems” (sentence

starters) – More advanced expressions that will push

students to communicate more elaborately and respectfully

• Students have a dialog, taking turns using the stems

• Examples: – I think (that)… – I (dis)agree because…

1 point 2 points 3 points

I think (that)… I don’t think (that)…

I (sort of) agree with …. because

….

It’s surprising (that)…

It’s interesting (that)…

So, what you’re saying is…

I don’t understand why…

I wonder why… Couldn’t it also be true that…

Collaboration (in the real world)

Collaboration

Students’ ability to…

• work with others to accomplish a goal

• show mutual respect

• compromise and be flexible

• share group responsibility

• build consensus

Learning to speak English means

learning to INTERACT

with people in other cultures

Needs for 21C Collaboration

• Focusing beyond just language teaching is essential to developing a life and career in a world filled with the realities of globalization.

• Learners need to develop the language competency to collaborate while also considering the ethical and cultural dynamics between language and culture.

English as primary/official language

English proficiency by country

Proficiency trends by country

Collaboration Goals

• Language is not a one-way path for information; it is a framework for collaboration within a diverse, global landscape.

• Preparing learners to operate in the real world through a combination of language with critical thinking about global perspectives, ensures they will be ready to succeed through collaboration with and in the global context.

Collaborative Communication Activity

1. Describe the picture (using specific language structures or vocabulary)

2. Put students into small groups of 4-5

3. Give students 1 minute to brainstorm all the words/phrases they can think of related to a unit title

4. Discuss pre-reading questions (from the book or have students generate their own ideas)

5. Have students work in groups to predict what they think they will be reading about (general or specific)

Creativity

Creativity

Involves…

• ideation (brainstorming)

• elaboration

• risk-taking

• refining ideas

• cycling of build-learn

• being responsive to new ideas from others

• making ideas tangible and useful to others

Abstract Meaningless

Inauthentic Emotional

Detachment

Systematic

Forgetting

Context Meaningful

Authentic Emotional

Commitment

“Deep” learning

experience Creativity

Rote Learning Contextual Learning

Critical Thinking

What is Critical Thinking?

Students’ ability to

• draw conclusions

• analyse and synthesize

• interpret and make connections

• reflect critically and evaluate

• solve problems

Why teach Critical Thinking?

• Help students learn how to reason effectively

– Use different reasoning (inductive/deductive)

– Think systematically

– Make good judgments and decisions based on information and sound arguments

– Solve problems; identify and ask important questions to clarify other’s view and lead to better solutions

The Critical Thinking Paradigm

Improving our critical thinking

Importance of Critical Thinking • The 21C world combines ubiquitous, unabated access to

information with ever-blurring lines of accuracy • Gone are the days of learners working from a rote

memorization of vocabulary and language points which focus on one-way narrative of knowledge acquisition.

• Learners need more than ever to discern between alternative facts, fake news, real news, and everything in between.

• Exposure to authentic real-time content from multiple sources has never been higher.

• Learners’ opportunity has both never been more attractive and never been more daunting when it comes to distinguishing fact from fiction.

Tap-In Debate 1. Choose a controversial topic and divide students into two groups: those who agree and

those who disagree

2. Students prepare their argument

3. Arrange chairs, so that there are two hot seats facing each other and place chairs behind the hot seats

4. When you say “start”, the first two students sitting in the hot seats start the debate, trying to defend their group’s point of view

5. After a few minutes tap two students, one in the hot seat and one that is not.

6. Once the student in the hot seat is tapped, s/he must stop the conversation. The new student takes that place.

7. The new student must resume the conversation exactly where the other left it, even if it is in mid-sentence. S/he must make their argument coherent and follow the previous opinions and statements.

Critical Thinking Activity

Digital Literacy

Passages with Modern Forms of Communication

Class Booster Blended Learning

Interactive activities designed to motivate learners

• Engage in game-like activities to earn points.

• As the points add up, the learners’ English competency will improve and their game avatar will grow.

Class Booster LMS

Class Booster Activities

Word Flash Word Match Quiz

Unscramble Summary Video

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality

Classroom Digital Materials – Teacher’s Class Kit

Compass’ newest teaching tool, Teacher’s Class Kit is an interactive ebook that allows teachers to show the student book content in classrooms. Features • Embedded video and audio

links • Easy navigation tools • Accessible through the

Compass homepage with an access code

• One-time teacher registration for one-year access

Here’s to the crazy ones

• Educators need to prepare learners with a new blueprint for learning. – Intercultural communication,

– Collaborative,

– Creativity

– Critical thinking

• Learners should develop the ability to exhibit purposeful and mindful use of new competencies in the real world.

Reflective Mindset Activity Step 1: Photolog of your daily life. Step 2: 20 years later, imagine the same photos taken today, what is different now? Step 3: 65 years later, which is the one photo you would have changed?

http://www.thecrazyones.it/spot-en.html

How will you and your students

change the world?

Questions?

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