The 21st Century Teacher and Learner
K to 12 classifications of the 21st Century Skills
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Curriculum Exits
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Curriculum Exits
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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 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
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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
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
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The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
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
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The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
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
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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
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONhttp://www.teachthought.com/learning/25-critical-thinking-strategies-for-the-modern-learner/
What must 21st century teachers do to develop critical thinking in students?
•Commitment•Competence•Creativity•Compassion•Character
21st Century Teaching and Learning
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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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
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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.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
21st Century Teaching and Learning
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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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
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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/
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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