The document discusses the essential skills needed for 21st century teachers. It identifies creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and being a lifelong learner as key skills. It also outlines several categories of 21st century skills needed for students, including learning and innovation skills, digital literacy skills, and career and life skills.

4. The 21st Century Teacher
There are essential skills for the
Digital learners that the teacher
should consider in giving
appropriate activities and
assessments to their learners.

5. The 21st Century Teacher
• The one who is adequately equipped and is
highly collaborative, a lifelong learner, is
accountable for results and the information,
media and technology literate.

6. K to 12 Classifications of the 21st Century
Skills

8. Curriculum Exits

9. • Creativity
• Curiosity
• Critical Thinking
Problem Solving Skills
• Risk Taking

10. • Flexibility and Adaptability
• Leadership and Responsibility
• Social and Cross-cultural Skills
• Initiative and Self-direction
• Productivity and Accountability
• Ethical, Moral and Spiritual
Values

11. • Teaming
• Collaboration
• Interpersonal Skills
• Local, National and Global
Orientedness
• Interactive Communication

12. • Visual and Information
Literacies
• Media Literacy
• Basic, Scientific,
Economic, and
Technological Literacies
• Multicultural Literacy

13. • 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.
VISUAL LITERACY

14. • The ability to identify what information is
needed, identify the best sources of
information for a given need.
• It is most essential in the conduct of research.
INFORMATION
LITERACY

15. • The ability to critically analyze the messages that
inform, entertain and sell to us everyday.
• 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.
MEDIA LITERACY

16. • Encompasses written, numerical, and digital
literacy as they pertain to understanding science,
it’s methodology, observations, and theories.
• The knowledge and understanding of scientific
concepts and processes required for personal
decision making , participation in civic and
cultural affairs, and economic productivity.
SCIENTIFIC
LITERACY

17. • The ability to apply basic economic concepts in
situations relevant to one’s life.
• It encompasses a familiarity with
fundamental economic concepts such as
market forces or how monetary system works.
ECONOMIC
LITERACY

18. • Computer Skills and the ability to use
computers and other technology to improve
learning , productivity, and performance (US
Department of Education, 1996).
TECHNOLOGICA
L
LITERACY

19. • The ability to responsibly use appropriate
technology to:
• Communicate;
• Solve Problems;
• Acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st
century; and
TECHNOLOGICA
L
LITERACY

20. • Access, manage, integrate, evaluate, design
and create information to improve learning in
all subject areas.
TECHNOLOGICA
L
LITERACY