5. Teachers of the Early
Generations
VS
Teachers of the 21st Century
6. T e a c h e r s o f t h e E a r l y G e n e r a t i o n s V S
T e a c h e r s o f t h e 2 1 s t C e n t u r y
Teachers of Yesteryears Teachers of the 21st Century
Disseminate information through lectures
Require students memorize contents form
textbooks.
Make use of textbooks and workbooks as their
reference.
Give assessments through written examination
Focus on their responsibility and relationship with
the students as receipts of knowledge.
Followers of policies prescribed by the school.
Use lecture as teaching method.
Deliver the same lessons every year.
Allow students to solve real world problems.
Allow students to construct their own
understanding of the subject matter.
Make use of manipulative materials; makes use of
multitude of prints and electronic sources.
Give performance – based assessments
(Performance based)
Widen their responsibility and their relationship
with colleagues, community and other
stakeholders.
Participate in the decision – making in schools.
Use of variety of teaching methods appropriate in
the student’s learning
Spend time in researching new updates
7. T e a c h e r s o f t h e E a r l y G e n e r a t i o n s V S
T e a c h e r s o f t h e 2 1 s t C e n t u r y 8
Teachers of Yesteryears Teachers of the 21st Century
Too focused on self – achievement.
Target to finish the lesson within the period
Autocratic in which teachers are in control of
everything in all events of the classroom
Holder of knowledge/ Gatekeeper of information
Technology illiterate
Mentor new teachers
Target the learners to be ready in the challenges
of today’s learning.
Democratic in which teachers allow students to
take responsibility in their learning.
Facilitator of learning
Technology or digital literate
8. 21st Century Teacher
Channel – Teachers serves as a channel in connecting curriculum, software,
hardware and dynamics of teaching in their instructions.
Communicator – it doesn’t only refer to good language in communicating
knowledge to the students, but being a teacher who can communicate with
their students anytime and anywhere with the use of tools and technologies.
Learner – Teachers never ceases learning new knowledge. Learning the technologies
of today will give them a big leap in the advances of today and tomorrow’s
teaching and learning.
Futurist – not only on what they want their students to achieve at the end of the
lesson, but on how they will deliver the lesson with the use of the emerging
tools and other web technologies.
9. Leader – leads their students to the proper and appropriate use of learning materials
including technologies.
Exemplar – Teachers are models when it comes behavior, language, dealing with
colleagues and students, use of facilities and others.
Collaborator – not only inside the classroom but also in space. Teachers therefore
must pull up their collaborative tools to be able to continue to share and
contribute their knowledge to the learners.
Venture Player – taking chances to apply new knowledge, practices and
technologies especially if these will level up the students understanding and
learning.
11. Students of the Early
Generations
VS
Students of the 21st Century
12. S t u d e n t s o f t h e E a r l y G e n e r a t i o n s V S
S t u d e n t s o f t h e 2 1 s t C e n t u r y
Students of Yesteryears Students of the 21st Century
Receiver of facts and information
Learning is based on repetition
Textbook users
Passive recipients of information
Competitive learners
Factual thinkers
Unilateral thinkers
Inactive process of learning
Dependent learners
Single Taskers
Single sensory input provider
Active creators of knowledge
Interactive knowledge constructor
Internet users access a vast of information.
Actively engaged in class activities
Collaborative learners
Reflective, critical and creative thinkers
Divergent thinkers
Dynamic processes of learning
Self – managing learners
Multi taskers
Multisensory input provider
13. With the existence of technology, there is much that is expected
from the students. They have to get away with being passive
learners.
They have to:
1. Learn to generate their own ideas and construct
their own understanding of the lesson;
2. Create works that are original
3. Communicate clearly with other students and with
their teachers
4. Collaborate with one another to achieve higher
standard of learning; and
5. Innovate learning and their outputs
15. Instructions of the Early Generations
VS Instructions of the 21st Century
Traditional Learning Environment New Learning Environment
Teacher – centered instruction
Single – sense stimulation
Single – path progression
Single medium
Isolated work
Information delivery
Passive learning
Factual, knowledge – based learning
Reactive response
Isolated, artificial context
Student – centered learning
Multisensory simulation
Multipath progression
Multimedia
Collaborative work
Information exchange
Active/exploratory/ inquiry – based learning
Critical thinking and informed decision making
Proactive/planned action
Authentic, real – world context
Adapted from Gunter, G. & Gunter R. (2015) Teachers Discovering Computers (8th Edition)
17. 21st Century Skills are Relevant to Students Professional Growth
1. LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS – Communication and collaboration,
critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation.
2. LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS - Leadership and responsibility, productivity and
accountability, social and cross-cultural skills, initiative and self-direction, flexibility
and adaptation.
3. INFORMATION, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS –
Media Literacy; Information and Communication Literacy;
18. Suggested Key Elements Fostering 21st Century Learning
1. Emphasis on the Core Subject– is beyond basic competency (reading, writing,
arithmetic) this is more on understanding to the core academic content to a higher
level (English, Reading, or Language Arts, World Languages, Arts, Mathematics,
Economics, Science, Geography, History, Government and Civics.
2. Emphasis on Learning Skills – it should not be limited to what is being learned at
schools but also learning persistently throughout their lives most especially in learning
ICT, Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills and Interpersonal and self-directional skills.
3. Use 21st Century Tools – Students need to learn and be proficient in the use of ICT
tools to access, relate, manage, evaluate and construct new knowledge or information.
19. Suggested Key Elements Fostering 21st Century Learning
4. Teach and learn 21st Century content – when the students are more engaged
in the lesson and the lessons are more relevant in their daily living students then
understand better the lesson and can truly say that they learn.
5. Teach and learn 21st Century context – including the curriculum and teaching
extensively the significant content areas like in global awareness , financial economic
and business literacy; civic literacy would help the students to be more competitive
globally.
6. Use 21st Century assessments that measure 21st century skills – Improving
and going beyond the standardized test will give the students quality learning.
Teachers must give the assessments that would measure student’s creativity and skills
that could be applied in real-life situations.
