The document discusses the characteristics and skills of 21st century teachers and learners. It identifies creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and learning as key innovation skills. 21st century teachers should be adaptable communicators, lifelong learners, visionaries, leaders, models, collaborators and risk-takers. They must develop these same skills in their students through project-based and transdisciplinary learning. Technology supports new learning approaches but teachers remain crucial as facilitators.

1. The 21st Century Teacher
and Learner

2. K to 12 classifications of the 21st Century Skills
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3. Curriculum Exits
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4. Curriculum Exits
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1. Visual and information
literacies
2. Media literacy
3. Basic, scientific,
economic and
technological literacies
and multicultural
literacy
4. Global awareness
1. Creativity and curiosity
2. Critical thinking
problem solving skills
3. Risk taking
1. Collaboration and
interpersonal skills
1. Flexibility and
adaptability
2. Initiative and self-
direction
3. Social and cross-
cultural skills
4. Productivity and
accountability
5. Leadership and
responsibility
6. Ethical, moral and
spiritual values

5. Creativity and innovation
Critical thinking and problem solving
Communication and collaboration
Learning
and
Innovation
Skills

6. Access and evaluate
information
Use and manage information
Analyze media
Create media products
Apply technology effectively
Info,
Media,
Tech
skills

7. Life and
Career
Skills
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Initiative and self-direction
• Social and cross-cultural skills
• Productivity and Accountability
• Leadership and responsibility

8. Characteristics of a 21st Century Learner
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/knilt/index.php/Unit_1_-
_The_21st_Century_Learner http://roryjonmanning.com/Scholar.html
by Palfrey and Gasser
Knowledge Network for Innovations in
Learning and Teaching (KNILT)

10. http://nicholasroseth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/21st+Century+Word+Cloud.jpg

11. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
21st Century Educators are able to adapt
1. the curriculum and the requirements
to teach to the curriculum in
imaginative ways;
2. software and hardware designed for
a business model into tools utilizable
by a variety of age groups and
abilities to a dynamic teaching
experience.
3. teaching style to be inclusive of
different modes of learning.

12. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a
communicator, must be fluent in
tools and technologies that enable
communication and collaboration
anywhere, anytime. They do not only
know how to do communication, they
also know how to facilitate, stimulate,
control, moderate, and manage
communication.

13. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a
learner, must
• be lifelong learners;
• continue to absorb
experiences and knowledge;
• endeavor to stay current;
• change and learn as the
horizons and landscape
changes.

14. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a visionary,
must have rich imagination to:
• see the potential in, grasp, and
manipulate the emerging tools and
web technologies;
• look at others’ ideas and envisage
how they would use these in their
class;
• looks across the disciplines and
through the curricula and make
links that reinforce and value
learning in other areas; and
• make other fields as leverage to
reinforce their own teaching and
the learning of their students

15. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a
leader,
• leads by example by
championing processes and
modeling skills—walks the talk;
• is an advocator, early adopter—
a maverick;
• set clear goals and objectives
crucial to the success of a
project

16. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a
model, should model
• the behaviors that they expect from
their students—tolerance,
acceptance, a wider view than just
their curricula areas, global
awareness, and reflection
• reflective practice by monitoring and
evaluating their teaching via blogs,
twitter and other medium where
educators can look both inwards and
outwards

17. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a
collaborator, must be able to
• leverage collaborative tools like
Linkedin, Ning, Blogger, Wikispaces,
Bebo, MSN, MySpace, Slideshare,
Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook
to enhance and captivate our
learners
• Share, contribute, adapt and invent
using these collaborative tools

18. https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
The Adaptor
The Communicator
The Learner
The Visionary
The Leader
The Model
The Collaborator
The Risk taker
Characteristics of a 21st Century Teacher
The 21st Century teacher, as a risk
taker, must
• have a vision of what s/he wants and
what the technology can achieve to
be able to identify goals and facilitate
learning
• take risks and sometimes surrender to
the students’ knowledge and use the
strengths of these digital natives to
understand and navigate
products
have students teach each other

19. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONhttp://www.teachthought.com/learning/25-critical-thinking-strategies-for-the-modern-learner/
What must 21st century teachers do to
develop critical thinking in students?
•Commitment
•Competence
•Creativity
•Compassion
•Character

20. 21st Century Teaching and Learning
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://www.peelschools.org/aboutus/21stCentury/byod/parentresources/Documents/Vision%20for%2021st
%20Century%20Teaching%20and%20Learning.pdf
.
IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
1.Teachers and students are all learners
2.The focus is more on questions, less on answers
3.Understanding is more important than knowing
4.Innovation and exploration are part of learning
5.We connect and learn with the world

21. 21st Century Teaching and Learning
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://www.peelschools.org/aboutus/21stCentury/byod/parentresources/Documents/Vision%20for%2021st%20Century%20Teaching%20and%20Learning.pdf
.
21st century teaching and learning must
be based on the following broad skills:
1.Collaborative inquiry to solve real and
relevant problems
2.Creativity and innovation
3.Critical thinking and
problem-solving
4.Communication

22. 21st Century Teaching and Learning
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://www.peelschools.org/aboutus/21stCentury/byod/parentresources/Documents/Vision%20for%2021st%20Century%20Teaching%20and%20Learning.pdf
.
Technology, then, is what supports and enables
this kind of learning and engages students by:
1.Providing learning—anywhere, anytime
2.Supporting teacher innovation and capacity
building
3.Enhancing equity of access through the use of
personal devices and internet resources
4.Using social media to support inquiry and
communication while building social
responsibility and digital literacy
5.Strengthening connections with parents

23. 20th Century Learning VS 21st Century Learning
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
20th Century Learning = learning content
21st Century Learning = learning the tools and skills to
remake the content to become the
producer and creator
~Diana Rhoten
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c0xa98cy-Rw#!%20

24. Provide crossword and word search puzzles for
your students in order to address vocabulary
or to introduce new topics in your lessons.
You may visit this site:
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
Some Quick Suggested
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

25. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

26. RUBISTAR www.rubistar.4teachers.org

29. "The greatest sign of a success for a
teacher...is to be able to say, "The
children are now working as if I did
not exist.“
– Maria Montessori

30. Thank You!
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://fis-pyp-wiki.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Transdisciplinary+Learning