The 21st Century Teacher, Learner and Skills
K to 12 classifications of the 21st Century Skills
Curriculum Exits
Curriculum Exits
Characteristics of a 21st Century Learner
1. Self-directed Lifelong learners
2. Visionary Leaders
3. Collaborative Communicators
4. Aware, adapt information managers
5. Adapt, Literate performers
6. Healthy humans
7. Caring, global citizens
8. Flexible, critical thinkers
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Characteristics of a 21st Century Learner
1. Create identities
2. Maintain dossiers
3. Be creators
4. Promote Information Quality
5. Navigate Information Overload
6. Manage Media Violence
7. Be Innovators
8. Be Learners
9. Be activists
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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.
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
1. The Adaptor
2. The Communicator
3. The Learner
4. The Visionary
5. The Leader
6. The Model
7. The Collaborator
8. The Risk Taker
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1. The Adaptor
21st Century Educators are able to adapt:
the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways;
software and hardware designed for a business model into tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and abilities to a
dynamic teaching experience.
teaching style to be inclusive of different modes of learning.
2. The Communicator
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.
3. The Learner
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.
4. The Visionary
The 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
5. The Leader
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
6. The Model
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
7. The Collaborator
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
8. The Risk Taker
The 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
21st Century Skills
21st Century Teaching and Learning
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
20th Century Learning VS 21st Century Learning
-20th Century Learning = learning content
- 21st Century Learning = learning the tools and skills to remake the content to become the producer and creator
~Diana Rhoten
21st Century
We wont know what children would know 10 years from now, so inquiry is the process children learn how to learn and
apply those skills in the learning of everything for the future…
-Kelly Holm Teacher
21st classroom is highly augmented with technology that allows kids to be one on one. It’s like to have a play time rather
than to have people sitting around with a teacher in front.
-David Kelley Founder of IDEO
21st Century Skills (4 C’s)
1.Critical Thinking
2.Creativity
3.Communication
4.Collaboration
1. CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Meaning: Looking at problems in a new way and linking learning across subjects & disciplines.
Instruction: Teacher poses a problem and asks students to solve it or research for answers
Traditional way: Students copied information from a given table.
Modern way: Students answered a problem question and gathered information to answer the problem.
2.Communication
Meaning: Sharing thoughts, ideas, questions & solutions
Instruction: Teacher raises an issue or topic and students express their ideas with varied media.
Traditional way: Students read the information they copied.
Modern way: Students reported their findings to a moxed group.
3.Collaboration
Meaning: Working together to reach a goal. Putting talent, expertise, and smart to work.
Instruction: Teacher provide a task and students work in teams.
Traditional way: Students worked alone.
Modern way: Students worked in teams.
4.Creativity
Meaning: Trying new approaches to get things done equals innovation & invention.
Instruction: Teacher presents a challenge and students design a solution or an innovation.
Traditional way: Students sketched a picture based on a reference.
Modern way: Students made a presentation using different media.
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