MODULE 1 BENLAC

21st Century School

 Project based curriculum for life that would engage students in addressing real life or world problems
and humanity concerns and issues.
 Teacher will transform their role from being dispensers of information becoming facilitators of learning
and help students translate information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom.
 Create a culture inquiry (research) (freedom and opportunity to explore word and has the opportunity)
(questioning and learning)
CHANGES IMPLICATION FOR TEACHER:

 Teacher must discover student interests by helping them see what and how they are learning to
prepare them for life in the real world.
 Instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong learning.
 Must be flexible in how they teach/
 Must excite learners to becomes more resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside the
formal school.
 Students manifest significant improvement in basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening,
researching, scientific explorations, multi - media skills and others.

21st Century Curriculum

- Curriculum Guide (Recommended)
- 4 Learning Domains (Social, Affective, Cognitive, Physical)
1. Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary
2. Project – based
3. Research – driven
4. Higher – order thinking skills
5. Multiple Intelligences
6. Technology and multimedia
7. Multiple Literacies
8. Authentic Assessments, including (service – learning) (Traditional & Authentic)
9. Focused on Differentiation
10. Instruction turns to be more thematic, project based, and integrated with skills and
competencies purely not confined to themselves, but are explored through research and
concept application in project and outputs.
11. Learning is connected to previous knowledge

21st Century Environment

- Cooperative Learning
- Collaborate with their peers exchanging of ideas, coaching, mentoring, sharing of knowledge and
skills

Technology in the 21st Century Pedagogy

 Tools for the students for personal and social change full access of the technology (laboratories and
learning centers).
 Technology serves as a bridge from science and society
 Science is an idea output of technology
 Integrate in teaching
 Pedagogy – The methods in teaching
 Extrinsic Motivation
 Understanding 21st century
 Preschoolers navigates technology

21st Century Skills, Outcome and the Demands in the Job Market
21st century skills are set of abilities that students need to develop to succeed in the information age.
 Types of 21st Century Skills

 Learning Skills – critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborating and communicating

 Literacy Skills – information literacy, media literacy and
 Life Skills – flexibility, initiative, social skills, productivity and leadership
According to the Partnership for 21 st century skills, various industries look for employees who can
think critically, solve problems creatively, innovate, collaborate and communicate, Therefore for a
perfect match between academe and industry demands schools need to embed time tested industry –
demanded work skills in the curriculum.
The Value of a 21st Century Education
Success looks different now that it did in the past. High achieving people are frequently
choosing to top out of the traditional job market and create their own jobs. Successful people
increasingly expect to be able to :

 Live and work anywhere in the world

The 21st Century Learning Implications

1. Teacher should practice teaching cross – disciplinary skills in related courses, such as integrating
research in various disciplines; articulating technical scientific concepts in verbal, written, and graphic
forms; presenting laboratory reports to a pool of specialist, or use emerging technologies software
programs and multimedia applications as an extension of an assigned topic.
2. Accrediting organizations and regulatory bodies may require 21 st century skills in the curriculum.
Assessment tools should also contain these skills. They may design or adopt learning standards that
explicitly describe multi-disciplinary skills that students should acquire and master.
3. Schools may allow students to pursue alternatives, in which students can earn academic merits and
satisfy graduation requirements by completing in internship, apprenticeship or volunteer experience.
4. Students can practice a variety of practical, career – based, work-related skills and values while equally
completing the academic coursework and meeting the same learning standards required of students.
5. Schools need to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning that reflect a changing world.
The purpose of the school should be to prepare students for success after graduation and therefore
schools need to prioritize the knowledge and skills that will be in the greatest demand, such as those
deemed to be the most important by college professors and employers.
6. Teaching students to perform well in school or pass the test alone is no longer sufficient.

A Paradigm Shift For 21st Century Education

Outcome – based education (OBE) is an education in which an emphasis is placed on a clearly
articulated idea of what students are expected to know and be able to do, that is, what skills and
knowledge they need to have, when they leave the school system.

Before 21st Century Education 21st Century Education

Time - Based
Focus: memorization of discrete facts
Lower order thinking skills in Bloom’s
Taxonomy, such as knowledge and
comprehension
Textbook - driven
Passive Learning
Learners work in isolation and confined in the
classroom (walled classroom)
Teacher – centered: teacher is dispenser of
knowledge, information and attention
Little to no student freedom
‘Discipline problems’- no trust between
educators and students. Little student
motivation
Fragmented Curriculum
Grades taken from formal assessment measures
Outcome - Based
Focus: what students know, can do, and are like
after all the details are forgotten.
Higher order thinking skills (metacognition)
such as, application, analysis, synthesis and
evaluation
Research - driven
Active Learning
Learners works collaboration with classmates
and others around the world (global classroom)
Student – centered: teacher is facilitator coach
of students learning
Great deal of student freedom
No ‘Discipline problems’- students and teachers
have mutual respect and relationship as co
learners. High student motivation
Integrated and Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Grades are based on student performance as
 entered in the class record for reporting evidence of learning outcome
purposes
Assessment is for marking purposes and placed Assessment is an important aspect of
as part of lesson plan structure instruction to gauge learning outcome
Low expectation. What students receive is what High expectations that students succeed in
they get learning to high extent
Teacher is judge. No one else sees student Self, peer and others serve as evaluators of
work. Outputs using structured metrics. student learning using ide range of metrics and
authentic assessment
Curriculum is irrelevant and meaningless to the Curriculum is connected to students interests,
students experiences, talents and the real world.
Print is the primary vehicle of learning and Performances, projects and multiple forms of
assessment media are used for the learning and assessment
Student diversity is ignored Curriculum and instruction address student
diversity
Students just follows orders and instructions Students are empowered to lead and initiate
while listening to teacher’s lecture while creating solutions and solving problems
Literacy is the 3 R’s ( Reading, wRiting, and Multiple literacies of the 21st century aligned to
aRithmetic) living and working in a globalized new society
Factory model based upon the needs of Global model based upon the needs of a
employers for the industrial age of the 19 th globalized high – tech society.
century

The Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher

a) Multiliterate = teachers know how to use various technologies in teaching
b) Multi – specialist = teachers are not only knowledgeable in the course subject they teach but also in
other areas so that they can help the learner build up what they gain in the classroom and outside the
school and make sense of what was learned.
c) Multi – skilled = teachers cope with the demand for widening learning opportunities by being skillful
not just in teaching but also in facilitating and organizing groups and activities.
d) Self – directed = teachers are responsible for various aspects of school life and know how to initiate
action to realize the learning goals of the students and the educational goals of the country.
e) Life – long learner = teachers embrace the ideal that learning never ends. Teachers must be constantly
updated on the latest information related to their subject and pedagogic trends. They also share what
they are learning with their students and colleague with high sense of professionalism.
f) Flexible = teachers are able to adapt various learning styles and needs of the learners. They can
facilitate learner-centered teaching with flexibility using alternative modes of delivery.
g) Creative Problem Solver = teacher create innovative ideas and effective solutions to the arising
problems in the field, in the classroom, in the school or the profession as a whole.
h) Critical Thinker = teachers are critical thinkers as they encourage students to reflect on what they have
learned, and rekindle in them the desire to ask questions, reason out, probe, and establish their own
knowledge and belief.
i) Has A Passion For Excellent Teaching = possess passion in the teaching profession to ensure students
are motivated to learn under their guidance and care.
j) High Emotional Quotient (EQ) = teachers do not just have the head but also the heart to teach.
Teaching is emotionally taxing but an influential job as it involves interaction with human beings.

Common 21st Century Technology Tools For Learning

1. Affinity group – these are groups or communities that unite individuals with common interest.
Electronic spaces extend the range of possibilities for such groups.
2. Blogs – interactive websites often open to the public that can include web links, photographs and
audio and video elements
3. E – portfolio – it refers to students works that are generated, selected, organized, stored and revised
digitally. Electronic portfolios are accessible to multiple audiences and can be moved form one site to
another easily. It can document the process of learning, promote integrative thinking, display final
work and provide a space for reflective thinking.
 4. Hypertext – these re electronic text that provide multiple links and allow users to trace ideas in
immediate and idiosyncratic direction. Hyper media adds sound, video animation, and or virtual reality
environments to the users choices.
5. Podcast – these are digitalized audio files that are stored on the internet and downloaded to the
listeners computer or most likely to MP3 players. The term podcast comes from IPOD, the popular MP3
player.
6. Web 2.0 – this refers to a second generation of web – based communities that demonstrate the
participatory literacies that students need for the 21st century.
7. My space – it is a social networking website that offers an interactive user – submitted network of
friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. Students can rate
professors, discuss books and connect with high school and college classmates here.
8. Second life – it is an internet – based 3 – D virtual world that uses avatar (digital representations) to
explore, socialize, participate in individual or group activities create and trade items and services.
9. Semantic web – it is an extension of the current web that puts data into a common format so that
instead of humans working with individual search engines to locate information, the search engine
themselves feed into a single mechanism that provides this searching on its own. Sometimes called
Web 3.0, this technology enables integration of virtually all kinds of information for more efficient and
comprehensive retrieval.
10. Webkinz – it is an internet simulation wherein children learn pet care and other skills.
11. Wiki – it refers to software that fosters collaboration and communication online. Wikis enable students
to create, comment upon, and revise collaborative projects. One of the most prominent is Wikipedia
an online multilingual free – content encyclopedia, which has 7.9 million articles om 253 languages.
12. YouTube – it is a popular website for video sharing where users can upload, view and share video
footage, including movie
13. Google docs – it allows students to collaborate with other people and document materials that need
to be complied, processed, transacted and analyzed.
14. Prezi – it allows individuals to use pre-made, creative presentation templates.
15. Easybib – it allows individuals to generate citations in any given
16. Social media platforms -
17. Smartboards and audience response systems – these are replacement for traditional chalkboards or
whiteboards in classrooms.
18. Read write think org – it is a repository of standards-based literacy lessons that offer teachers
instructional ideas for internet interaction.
19. WebQuest Page – it provides webquest on an array of topics across content ares with a template for
creating one’s own.
20. Literacy web – an online portal that includes a large number of new literacy resources for new
literacies for teachers.

Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education

A 21st century education is one that responds to the economical, technological and societal shifts that
are happening at an ever-increasing pace. Its an education that sets children up to succeed in a world where
more than half of the jobs they’ll have over their careers don’t even exist yet. April 23, 2019 21 st century
literacy is more than just writing and reading. It is knowing how to learn and know. Utilizing scientific research
om cognition and meta cognition, students need to understand how the brain creates and uses subjective
knowledge, and the different processes that create objective
THE 4’C
a) Communication – sharing thoughts, questions, clues and solutions
b) Critical Thinking – looking at problems in a new way and linking learning across subject disciplines
c) Collaboration – working together to reach a goal, putting in talent, expertise and smart to work
d) Creativity – trying new approaches to get things done equals innovation and invention

The Four C’s of 21st Century Skills

1. Critical Thinker – solving problems
2. Communicator – understanding and communicating ideas
3. Collaborator – working with others
4. Creator – introducing high quality work
1) Integrated and Interdisciplinary
- Characterize by linkages among various subject areas in an integrated manner.
- We need to review the school curriculum and identify strategies or ways on how different subjects
can be effectively linked to enhance the learning experiences of our students.
2) Technologies and Multimedia
- It makes full use of available information and communication technology like computers and
internet as well as multimedia (audio and video based instruction to improve teaching and learning
activities.
- Digital Literacy – ability to find, evaluate, utilize and create information using technologies and
multimedia.
- Develop your digital literacy skills so that you can in turn pass these to your learners.
- Training is also needed for teachers users as part of a bigger ‘technology plan’.
3) Global Classrooms
- Aims to produce global activities by exposing students to the concerns of the region and other
countries.
- They are encouraged to react and respond to issues as part of the roles as global citizens.
- Need to include current global issues/ concerns such as peace and respect for cultural diversity,
climate change and
4) Creating / Adapting to Constant Personal and Social Change, and Life – Long Learning
- It is a belief that learning does not only happen inside the school and during one’s schooling years.
Learning can take place anywhere, anytime, regardless of one’s age.
- Teachers should facilitate students acquisition of KSAV that go beyond academics.
- Learning should take place not only for the purpose of passing exams but also transferring
knowledge to real life situations.
- The curriculum should be planned in such a way that the students will continue to learn even
outside the school’s portals.
5) Student – Centered
- Focused on students
- It is tailor fit to address the individual learning needs of each students.
- Differentiated instruction for planning and delivering instruction
- Teacher act as facilitator in teaching learning process
- Learners should be given opportunities to discover
6) 21st Century Skills
- It promotes the skills needed to be productive members of today’s society
- Go beyond the basic skills, so they can cope with life and work in 21 st century communities
- Collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking skills.
7) Project – based and Research Driven
- emphasis on data, information and evidence-based decision making
- it relies heavily on student – driven activities to encourage active learning
- teachers of the 21st century need to be knowledgeable about research to guide their students
learning through self - directed activities.
8) Relevant, Rigorous and Real World
- Education in the 21st century is meaningful because it is rooted in real life day to day activities of
learners
- Students will become active members of the society
- Using current and relevant information and linked to real life situations
- As teachers you need to be updated on the current trends