BUILDING AND

ENHANCING LITERACY
ACROSS THE
CURRICULUM WITH
EMPHASIS ON THE 21ST
CENTURY SKILLS
(EDUC 10 ISKL1)

Name of Students : Keddy S. Nakila

Romnick M. Handayan
Madonna Emboy
Program/Year Level : BTLEd-IA III
School Year : 2020-2021
Semester : 2nd Semester
Name of Students : Dr. Natalie L. Daminar
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
 The type of organizer we use for this activity, is what we called as
the “Spider Web Organizer or Semantic Map” which is one of the widely used graphic
organizers in investigating and enumerating ideas or concepts related to the center
idea (main idea). The concept is like a spider web, it has 2 parts – the spider and the
web, the spider is at the center which represents the main idea, main topic or main
concept, and the extenders or branches which we also called as the “Web” are the
branching ideas of the main topic which may give description, discussion or further
understanding to the main topic.

In this activity, the main topic or concept is the Attributes of the 21 st

Century Teaching and Learning, which describes the different characteristics of
teaching and learning process in the 21 st Century Classrooms inside the 21st Century
Curriculum. According to our further research, there are 8 Critical Attributes of the
21st Century Teaching and Learning, these are the (1)integrated and interdisciplinary,
(2) technologies and multimedia, (3) global classroom, (4)creating/adapting to
constant personal and social changes and lifelong learning, (5) student centered, (6)
21st century skills, (7) project based and research driven, and (8)relevant, rigorous
and real world. Integrated and interdisciplinary is described as the interrelatedness of
information across different areas in the integrated manner, what this means is that
students will be able to link their knowledge in different areas into one for a much
more effective learning. Technologies and multimedia is described as the full use of
available ICT (Information and Communication Technology) tools as well as other
media platforms to improve teaching and learning, digital literacy is the ability to
utilize and create information with the help of ICT tools. Global classroom is the
product of globalization, an international exchange of knowledge, cultures, science
and technology across the world. Global classroom means allowing the student to
become global citizens and globally competent by exposing them to different cultures,
traditions, challenges and problems. The ability to creating/adapting to constant
personal and social changes and lifelong learning is another attribute which implies
that learning takes place anywhere, anytime at any age, and that the ability to adapt to
changes means another opportunity for learning and growth. Another attribute of the
21st century teaching and learning is that it is student centered, which implies that
students learns on their own by allowing them to experience the real world around
them, allowing them to acquire different skills which includes the 21st century skills,
which are set of basics skills like reading, writing, numeracy, critical and creative
thinking skills, problem-solving and decision making skills, and ICT literacy and
skills that would help them cope with life and work in 21 st Century communities.
Lastly, the 21st century learning and teaching is a project-based and research-driven
and relevant, rigorous and real-world, which allows the student to continually learn by
updating their knowledge through research, finding solutions to common societal
problems through real world exposure which activates their activates their natural
curiosity ang eagerness to learn.

These attributes describes the beauty of the 21 st Century Curriculum

and its much more advance, timely, effective and interesting way of teaching and
learning than its previous versions.