silent cry in the classroom

1. REBRANDING SCHOOLS
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
LEARNERS
YOUR ROLES AS LEADER

2. WHO IS 21STCENTURY LEARNER ?
AND WHY SILENT TEARS IN
THE CLASSROOMS
DR. ABDUL KOKORI

3. WHAT IS EDUCATION?
• Education according to Ugwude (2019) is the
process that provides pupils with a basic
understanding and skills of various subjects as a
foundation of their academic career through
teachers
• The general objectives of education is to equip an
individual with appropriate skills, values and
knowledge to function effectively and contribute
meaningfully to his or dynamic society.

4. WHO IS 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS?
This refers to a student under the age of 25 who
is considered a digital native and has been
school age within the last 20 years. The 21st
century learners need to understand how to
command the digital and informational world.
This requires skills necessary to exist on the
global scene.

5. WHO IS 21ST CENTURY LEARNER?
21st century learner might also
be called "the net
generation" or "digital
natives" and is often defined
as those born after 1980 (that
is, after the realization of the
personal computer).

6. WHAT IS 21ST CENTURY LEARNING?
• Twenty-first-century learning embodies an
approach to teaching that marries content to
skill.
• Without skills, students are left to memorize
facts, recall details for worksheets, and relegate
their educational experience to passivity.
• Without content, students may engage in
problem-solving or team-working experiences
that fall into triviality, into relevance without
rigor.

7. WHAT IS 21ST CENTURY LEARNING?
• Instead, the 21st-century learning paradigm
offers an opportunity to synergize the margins
of the content vs. skills debate and bring it
into a framework that dispels these
dichotomies.
• Twenty-first-century learning means
hearkening to cornerstones of the past to help
us navigate our future

8. WHAT IS 21ST CENTURY LEARNING?
• Embracing a 21st-century learning model
requires consideration of those elements that
could comprise such a shift: creating learners
who take intellectual risks, fostering learning
dispositions, and nurturing school
communities where everyone is a learner.

9. WHY SILENT TEARS IN THE
CLASSROOOM ?

10. Anytime it’s school
time I get sad.
Yes I mean sad not
because I don’t like
school but because I
feel I don’t belong
there.

11. My teachers say
everyone is better
than me because
they get better
grades in tests and
exams.

12. My teachers always
compare me with others but
how can I dare tell them
that am different from them.
My teachers always say I
don’t do well even though
they teach me well but how
can I tell them that the
teaching method they use
doesn’t favour me even
though it favours the
majority.

13. How can I tell my teachers
that I just need motivation
not condemnation.
I wish I can be bold to tell my
teachers that I have to be
understood not to be
compared.

14. My maths teacher says I
am good for nothing
because am not good in
calculations.
My science teacher says I
am useless because I
always get low grades.
My English teachers say I
have no future because I
can’t express myself
fluently in the white
man’s language.

15. They seem to have forgotten that I
am the one that led the school
soccer team to win that trophy.
I am the same student that always
play those drums to the
admiration of all.
Sometimes when I ask why they
don’t consider what I do as
important they tell me WAEC
doesn’t ask those in examinations.

16. Tears always fill me but I can’t
pour them because no one
understands me.
My parents can’t even
understand me because my
teachers make them believe
I’m good for nothing.
I thought my parents will tell
them that I repair all the
electrical appliances in the
house without any training.
Who will hear me now
because i and many who are
like me are being destroyed

17. Who will help tell them
that even though we
might not be able to get
the certificate, we have
great talents?.
Who will help tell
teachers that they
should not force their
dreams on us but guide
us to nurture our God
given talents?

18. Who will hear our cry?
I am one of the voices of the many
silent voices in the class.

19. “Education is the passport
to the future, for
tomorrow belongs to
those who prepare for it
today.”
—Malcolm X.