The 21st Century

Teacher
What do you
think the
Traditional
Classroom is?
Is Traditional classroom is
the 21st century Teaching
method?
 What do you
think the skills
of 21st century
teachers should
have?
 The traditional Classroom
Content delivered by the teacher in the
classroom.
• Lectures and reading from textbooks are
the main sources of learning.
• Students are assessed primarily on
knowledge learned.

Hello!
The 21st Century Classroom

The teacher facilitates by

directing students to rich
learning sources and asking
students to demonstrate
what they know and can do.
 21st Century Skills

Effective Communication Skills

Learning and Innovative Skills
Life and Career Skills
Info, Media and Technology skills
Effective Communication Skills

1. Teaming
2. Collaboration
3. Interpersonal skills
4. Local, national and global orientedness
5. Interactive communication
Learning and Innovation Skills

CREATIVITY

CURIOSITY

Critical Thinking and Problem

Solving
 Learning and Innovation Skills

• Creativity and Innovation Think

1. Creatively
2. Work Creatively30%
3. Implement Innovations
with Others 20%
The written work you
have completed over a
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
period will account for
30% of your grade.

1. Reason Effectively
2. Use Systems Thinking
3. Make Judgments and Decisions
4. Solve Problems
 Learning and Innovation Skills

• Communication
1. Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and
nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
2. Listen effectively30%to decipher meaning, 20%including knowledge,
values, attitudes, and intentions.
The written work you
3. Use communication
have completed overfora a range of purposes (e.g., to inform,
instruct, motivate, and persuade)
period will account for
30% of your grade.
4. Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge
their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact.
5. Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-
lingual)
 Learning and Innovation Skills

• Collaboration
1. Demonstrate ability to work effectively and
respectfully30% with diverse teams. 20%
2. Exercise flexibility
The written work you
and willingness to be helpful in
making necessary
have completed overcompromises
a
period will account for
to accomplish a common
goal. 30% of your grade.

3. Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work,

and value the individual contributions made by each
team member.
 Life and Career Skills

1. Flexibility and adaptability

30% 20%
2. Leadership and responsibility
The written work you

3. Social and cross-cultural skills

have completed over a
period will account for

4. Initiative and self-direction

30% of your grade.

5. Productivity and accountability

 Life and Career Skills

• Flexibility and Adaptability

Adapt to varied roles, jobs responsibilities, schedules

and contexts.
Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing
priorities.
Incorporate feedback effectively .
Deal positively with praise, setbacks and criticism.
Understand, negotiate and balance diverse views. and
beliefs to reach workable solutions particularly in
multi-cultural environments.
 Life and Career Skills

• Leadership and Responsibility

1. Guide and Lead Others
2. Be Responsible to Others

• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills

1. Interact Effectively with Others
2. Work Effectively in Diverse Teams
 Life and Career Skills

• Initiative and Self-Direction

1. Manage Goals and Time
2. Work Independently
3. Be Self-directed Learners

• Productivity and Accountability

1. Manage Projects
2. Produce Results
 Info, Media and Technology Skills

1. Visual
30% and information
20%literacies
2. Media literacy
The written work you

3.Basic, scientific, economic and

have completed over a
period will account for
30% of your grade.

technological literacies
4. Multicultural literacy
 Info, Media and Technology Skills

• Visual literacies
1. Ability to interpret and make meaning from information
presented in the form of an image.
2. Ability to evaluate,
30% apply, or create conceptual
20% visual
representations.
The written work you
have completed over a
• Information literacy
period will account for
30% of your grade.
1. Ability to identify what information is needed
2. Identify the best sources of information for a given need.
3. Locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and
share that information.
 Info, Media and Technology Skills

• Media literacy
1. Ability to critically
30% analyze the messages
20% that inform,
entertain and sell to
The written work you
us everyday.
2. Ability to bring
have completed critical
over a
period will account for
thinking skills to bear on all
forms of media30% of yourasking
grade. pertinent questions about what
is there and noticing what is not there.
3. Ability to question what lies behind media production
 Info, Media and Technology Skills

• Scientific literacy
1. It encompasses written, numerical, and digital literacy as they pertain
to understanding science, its methodology, observations, and theories.
30% 20%
2. Knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes
required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural
The written work you
affairs, and economic productivity.
have completed over a
period will account for

• Economic literacy30% of your grade.

1. Ability to apply basic economic concepts in situations relevant to one's

life.
2. About cultivating a working knowledge of the economic way of thinking.
 Info, Media and Technology Skills

• Technological Literacy
Ability to responsibly use appropriate technology to:
30%
1. Communicate 20%
The written work you
2. Solve problems
have completed over a

3. Access, manage, integrate, evaluate, design and create

period will account for
30% of your grade.

information to improve learning in all subject areas

4. Acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st
century
"If we teach today as we taught yesterday,
we rob our children of tomorrow.
- John Dewey
THANK YOU