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ACTIVITY 2.1

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1. Describe the categories of 21st Century?

2. skills. How can the attainment of 21st Century skill contribute to the realization of educational goals
3. How can you prepare, plan and deliver a lesson with an end goal of attaining the 21st Century skills?
4.How can you integrate 21st Century skills in the teaching learning process?
5. What activities can help learners enhance their 21 Century skills?

Life and Values Integration

Share a personal experience in which you were able to develop any of the 21 Century skills.
What life lessons and values have you realized and learned?

RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATION

Direction: Analyze the following research abstract and cite its implication to teaching-learning.
You may download the full paper of this research on the website given below.

Twenty-first century skills: A needs assessment of school-based agricultural education teachers Weeks
(2019)

Preparing students to be career-and-work ready is concern of educators and schools

nationwide. Twenty-first century skills prepare students to enter the workforce or higher education with
the ability to think critically and creatively, collaborate with others, take the initiative when approached
with a task, and use technology to its fullest potential. If students are not learning. the skills needed for
success, it is because educators and schools are not teaching them. When students possess these skills,
they are prepared to work in teams, think critically and creatively about a problem, display leadership
and social skills, and communicate effectively with others. This research sought to identify school-based
agriculture education teachers' perceived importance, and ability to teach these 21" century skills in the
classroom. Results showed that agriculture teachers nationwide find 21 century skills to be important,
but they are less knowledgeable and able to teach them. The research concluded that professional
development is needed to increase teachers' knowledge of and ability to teach 21st century skills.
Professional development will allow school-based agricultural education teachers to gain specific and
applicable strategies for implementation. With the application of 21st century skills in the school-based
agricultural education classroom, students will become better prepared to enter the workforce or higher
education upon graduating high school.

(Weeks, K. (2019). Twenty-first century skills: A needs assessment of school-based agricultural education
teachers: Utah State University. https://digita/commons.usu.edu/ cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=8652&context=etd)

Group Mapping Activity: This is a strategy where members of the class present their prior knowledge on
the topic 21st Century skill categories through group drawing/illustration.

1. Analysis: How can 21 Century skills prepare students to enter workforce and higher education?

2. Implication: Why do you think professional development on teaching 21 Century skills is needed
by teachers in the field?

SYNTHESIS AND LEARNING REFLECTION

THE 21ST CENTURY SKILL CATEGORIES

- The term 21st century skills refers to a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits, and character
traits that are critically important in today's world, particularly in collegiate programs and
contemporary careers and workplaces.
- The Partnership for 21st Century Skills encompass a wide-range body of knowledge and skills
that are interconnected with applied skills, cross curricular skills, cross-disciplinary skills,
interdisciplinary skills, transferable skills, transversal skills, noncognitive skills, and soft skills
- To succeed in life and in their future career, students must hone and empower themselves with
learning and innovation skills, information, media and technology skills, life and career skills, and
social and cross-cultural skills.
- The integration of 21st Century skills must be continuously practiced along standards and
assessments, curriculum and instruction, professional development, and learning environments.
- Considering that teachers are the greatest mobilizers of 21st Century education, therefore, pre-
service teachers must rigidly trained on these skills to prepare them for their future professional
career roles.

Direction: Write your own concept of 21st Century Skills in each of the rainbow lines depicted by the
categories. Then, on the box below, write your brief explanation to indicate your clear understanding of
this topic.

Learning Reflection
CURRICULUM APPLICATION

Direction: Craft a sample of outcomes-based curriculum plan imbued with 21 Century learning
outcomes. Use the template sample provided below.
SAMPLE OBE CURRICULUM PLAN
Subject Area:
Learning Outcome Topic Time Teaching Assessment Material/
Allotment Learning Task References
Activities
A. Learning and Innovation Skills

B. Information, Media and Technology Skills

C. Life and Career Skills