21st Century Skills

Miss. Sahaya MaryHM

FACULTY , KVS ZIET MYSORE

WHAT’S YOUR TEACHING PHILOSOPHY?CLASSIFY THESE QUOTES INTO 20TH AND

21ST CENTURY IDEAS….

ACTIVITY

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier.

If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

-Barbara Colorose

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

-Henry Brooks Adams

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

—Jacques Barzun

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-Anonymous

Children are like wet cement; whatever falls on them makes an impression.

- Haim Ginott

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds hard to answer.

-Alice Wellington Rollins

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

-Bob Talbert

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child.Listen to the DON’TSListen to the SHOULDN’TSThe IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS.Listen to the NEVER HAVESThen listen close to me-Anything can happen, child,ANYTHING can be.”

-Shel Silverstein

The mediocre teacher tells.The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

-William A. Ward

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

-William Butler Yeats

Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.

-Unknown

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

-Albert Einstein

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

-James Baldwin

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

—Robert M. Hutchins

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

-Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.

-Unknown

Never do anything for a student that he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you’ll make him an educational cripple…a pedagogical paraplegic.

-Howard Hendric

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

-John Dewey

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+What is 21st Century Learning?

Do you have a clear understanding what is meant by 21st Century learning?

A.YesB.No

+21st Century Learning

What is 21st Century Learning?Student outcomes

Supports

+21ST CENTURY LEARNING strong academic skills thinking, reasoning and teamwork skills

proficiency in using  technology 

+21st Century Principles

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Digital Age Literacies, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, And High Productivity

FOUR CATEGORIES OF 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

+The Traditional Classroom

+Tip # 2The 21st Century Classroom

Partnership for 21st Century Skills

+ WHERE/WHAT’S THE SHIFT?

+THE FOUR PILLARS OF LEARNING

+TOOLS FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

+What are 21st century skills?The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The 21st Century Skills are listed under three categories:Learning Skills•Critical Thinking•Creative Thinking•Collaborating•CommunicatingLiteracy Skills•Information Literacy•Media Literacy•Technology LiteracyLife Skills•Flexibility•Initiative•Social Skills•Productivity•Leadership

+ KEY MESSAGE

+ THE BASIS FOR CLASSROOM STRATEGIES

+ CLASSROOM STRATEGIES

1. BEGIN WITH INQUIRY2. STRUCTURE SELF – DIRECTED

LEARNING3. INTEGRATE ACROSS

DISCIPLINES4. ESTABLISH COLLABORATIVE

LEARNING / GROUPS5. COMMUNICATION

/EXPRESSION using collaborative media

6. ASSESS RATHER THAN EVALUATE

+21st Century Set of Literacies

Students will be able to: Find information Validate it Synthesize it Leverage it Communicate it Collaborate with it Problem solve with it

+21st Century Learners