LESSON 6: THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHER

If we teach today as we taught yesterday

we rob our children of tomorrow.
John Dewey
1. Enumerated and discussed the four skills of
the 21st Century Teacher
2. Identified the specific skills under each of the
category of the skills of the 21st century
teacher
3. Created and awareness on oneself if you
possess the skills as a teacher of the 21st
century.
4. Make a self evaluation of you belong to the
21st century teacher who possess these skills.
 Four Categories of the 21st Century Skills

Communication
Skills

Information,
Media and
The 21st Learning
and
Technology Century Innovative
Skills Skills
Skills

Life and
Career Skills
 A teacher must possess them in order to
survive in this 21st century and be able to
contribute to the development of the 21st
century learners.
Under each of these four clusters are specific skills:

Effective Communication Skills

Teaming
Collaboration
Interpersonal skills
Local, national and global orientedness
Interactive communication
 Learning and Innovation Skills

Creativity
Collaboration
Critical thinking problem solving skills
Risk Taking
 Life and Career Skills:

Flexibility and adaptability

Leadership and responsibility
Social and cross-cultural skills
Initiative and self-direction
Productivity and accountability
Ethical, moral and spiritual values
 Information, media and technology skills:

Visual and information literacy

Media literacy
Basic, scientific, economic and technological
literacy
Multicultural literacy
 Discussion
Visual Literacy is the ability
to interpret, make meaning
from information presented
in the form of an image. It is
also the ability to evaluate,
apply, or create conceptual
visual representations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Information_literacy
Information Literacy is
the ability to identify
what information is
needed, identify the best
sources of information for
a given need, locate those
sources, evaluate the
sources critically, and
share the information.
Information literacy is
most essential in the
conduct of research.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Information_literacy)
Media literacy is the ability to
critically analyze the messages
that inform, entertain and sell to
us every day. Its the ability to
bring critical thinking skills to
bear on all forms of media asking
pertinent questions about whats
there and noticing whats not
there. It is the ability to question
what lies behind media
productions the motives, the
money, the values and the
ownership and to be aware of
how these factors influence
content of media productions...
http://www.media-
awareness.ca/english/teachers/m
edia_literacy/what_is_media_lite
racy.cfm
Scientific Literacy
encompasses written,
numerical, and digital literacy
as they pertain to
understanding science, its
methodology, observations,
and theories. Scientific literacy
is the knowledge and
understanding of scientific
concepts and processes
required for personal decision
making, participation in civic
and cultural affairs, and
economic productivity.
http://www.literacynet.org/sci
ence/scientificliteraacy.html
Economic literacy is the
ability to apply basic
economic concept in
situations relevant to ones
life. It is about cultivating a
working knowledge of the
economic way of thinking
understanding tradeoffs,
recognizing the importance
of incentives. It
encompasses a familiarity
with fundamental economic
concepts such as marked
forces or how the monetary
system works.
(http://www.econliteracy.or
g/)
Technological literacy
is defined as
computer skills and
the ability to use
computers and other
technology to improve
learning, productivity,
and performance
(http://www.ncrel.org/
sdrs/areas/issues/met
hods/technlgy/te4lk7.
htm)
Technological Literacy is the ability to responsibly use
appropriate technology to:

Communicate
Solve problems
Access, manage, integrate, evaluate, design and create
information to improve learning in all subject areas
Acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st
century
(http://www.coloradotechliteracy.org/documentation/
module1/definition.htm)
 Ways of thinking
Ways of working
Creativity, critical thinking,
problem-solving, decision- Communication and
making and learning collaboration

21st Century
Skills
Skills for living in the world
Tools for working Citizenship, life and career,
Information and and personal and social
responsibility
communications http://ate21s.org/index.php
technology (ICT) and /about/what-are-21st-
information literacy century-skills/
 WRAP-UP

The 21st century teacher is one who is

adequately equipped with :

Communication skills
Learning and innovation skills
Information, media and technology skills
Life and career skills
 He/she collaborates and interrelates with others
from all walks of life.
He/she is innovative and embarks on lifelong
learning.
He/she uses technology to the maximum and to
the optimum to improve his/her learning and
productivity.
He/she critically analyzes and evaluates
information derived from various sources and
is able to read message from media whether
directly given or given in a subtle manner.
 The 21st century teacher:
is highly collaborative,
a lifelong learner,
is accountable for results and
is information, media and technology
literate.
QUIZ Choose the letter of the correct answer: