The 21st Century Skills

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 Technology Skills

The 21st Century Skills

Life and Career Skills

Learning and Innovative 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. It’s the ability to bring critical thinking skills to bear on all forms of media asking pertinent questions about what’s there and noticing what’s 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.mediaawareness.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 one’s 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, decisionmaking and learning

Communication and collaboration

21st Century Skills Skills for living in the world

Tools for working Information and communications technology (ICT) and information literacy

Citizenship, life and career, and personal and social responsibility http://ate21s.org/index.php /about/what-are-21stcentury-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: