The Effective Teaching

Strategies for the 21st

Century Learners

Dr. Corazon M. Flores, FRIEdr

May 29, 2019 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sevilla’s Hotel Infiniti

Hall
 Education is one of the
fundamental factors of development
of any society.

-excellent education can be only the

work of an excellent educator
1. Individually write down 3 practices that you do to
support learning in the classroom.
2. Turn to a partner. Share your work and write down
your partner’s example.
3. At your table, share one practice per person.

NOW…
In designing strategies in the classroom
1. In one sentence or less how do you measure success?
2. How does this help foster learning among your
student?
3. What will this approach mean to your student’s
success
The Teacher
vital part of
the educational
system
brand
ambassador
of particular
school
-Prof. Liwayway Memije-Cruz
The teacher
could feel the joy of a well-deserved
career from the fact that students in
his team are making progress in
every sphere of development.
 effective teachers
-know how to deliver the
materials
-know how to control the
students
-know how to handle
the students’ problem
-know how to
manage the class
How can you
describe the
education
system today?

What is the
status of the
education
system today?
Who are our students?
 Who are our students?
digital natives/ Multi-tasker
net generations
Who are our students?

• Googling
• Data mining
• Social
networking
Who are our students?

• Mobile
• Multi-tasking
• Collaborative
• Creative
Who are our students?

Digitized and born digital

Who are our students?
Knowledge resides in connections.

The ability to
learn is more
important than
knowing
content.
It’s a conceptual age...

4Cs of the 21st

Century
Learning
 Learning is a personal
interpretation of the world
Learning takes place by reflection
not by prescription
Learning is a social dialogical
process
Implication to school teachers

Adapt to the changes and

TRANSFORM
Information is not anymore a
monopoly of textbooks.
Lesson delivery must cater to all
learning styles.
The teacher must be a specialist
too in technology and internet.
Identify the following social
media icons...
the hawl and the pussy cat
How do I get my students to
think?

collaboration

Enhance
creativity
 Essential skills

Designing skills
layout skills
Typography
Multi media editing
folksonomy
Color Theory
21st Century Skills
 Pre-assessment Learning
Activity
•Share your observations and experiences the way
your teachers in the past deliver their lessons in
the classroom.
•Describe commonalities and differences in their
teaching practices.
•Name the various instructional resources
teachers used to deliver the lesson.
•Describe how these instructional resources were
used to deliver the lesson.
If you have ???
then T...A...L...K

T –Think

A – Ask Questions
L – Listen

K – Keep notes
…teach-nology
Some have it
 Some don’t

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 Some use it
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 Some don’t

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Cutting edge?
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Why don’t we?

Time
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 Fit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47658930@N00/476481053
Juggling one more thing

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Awareness

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Comfort Level
Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/276990225/sizes/o/

It’s interest, not age.

 The 21st Century isn’t “coming”
– it’s here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20884341@N00/302931951
 “Teachers will not be
replaced by technology, but
teachers who don’t use
technology will be replaced
by those who do.”

-Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
 Why do students need us in the age of

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Why do we teach in the first
place?

What is the purpose of

education?
 Give students tools
to succeed in life

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Give students tools to make good decisions

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/julielindsay/3241736396/sizes/l/

Expand
our
student’s
view of
the world
Prepare students for college
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Prepare students for jobs

None of the Top 10 jobs that will
exist in 2010 existed in 2004.
-Richard Riley
(former US Secretary of Ed)
The 21 century learning
st
Need another reason?

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Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Life & Career Skills
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Digital Footprint
 Learning & Innovation Skills

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 Creativity

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 21st Century Skills are all
about teaching our kids to
navigate the world as THEY
are experiencing it, not the
world WE experienced.

-Wil Richardson
 How do I get the tools I need?

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21st Century Teaching
Turning Digital
• because 10 years from now….
 Essential Skills

NETWORKING SKILLS

Building a good reputation

Nurturing one’s connections

Becoming active and involved

in current trends or issues
 Essential Skills

LANGUAGE SKILLS

SENSITIVITY

WORD CHOICE & GRAMMAR

SPEAKING & WRITING for a

specific purpose and audience
 Essential Skills
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

Self-learning

Troubleshooting

Netiquette

Privacy and Security

Awareness
How do we develop these skills in
our students?

We restructure our lessons to

integrate Web or multimedia projects
that are not technically
overwhelming yet academically
substantial.
 Developing the Skills

To develop means
to provide
students
opportunity to
Advantages
• Takes learning outside the
classroom
• Empowers student’s voice and
creativity
• Allows students to reach people
around the world
Advantages
• Shows the relevance of the
lessons to their lives and
community
• Provides students with a real
audience and an authentic
learning experience
Role of the Teacher

To become an effective teacher in

the 21st century we need to
• Go global
• Go digital
• Connect & collaborate
• Learn new technologies
• Build a positive digital footprint
Meets K-12 Standards

Students will be able to:

• Communicate effectively
• Collaborate with others
• Think creatively and critically and
• Gather, analyze and synthesize
information.
For teachers:
They can adjust to the
different learning styles and
in the classroom. They can
also set their own pace of
teaching. Individual teaching
techniques can become more
available, which has been
proven to be a factor in
students achievement.
Embed self in the community

•Collaborate with
other teachers for
developing &
teaching curriculum
content.
•Master the art of
integrating
technology and
digital resources.
 Integration

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 What do we mean by integration?

The use of technology by students and

teachers to enhance teaching
and learning and to support
existing curricular goals and
objectives.

-Jeff Sun
Planning into Practice
Apple Classroom of tomorrow indicates that
students who use technology extensively as
part of their daily class experience exhibit
positive behaviors and
characteristics.
Explore and represent information
dynamically and in many forms.

Become socially aware and more

confident.

Communicate effectively about complex

process.
Use technology routinely and
appropriately.

Become independent learners and self-

starters.

Know their areas of expertise and share the

expertise spontaneously.
Work well collaboratively.

Develop a positive orientation to the

future.
-Jeff Sun
Planning into Practice, p. 56
-Jeff Sun
Planning into Practice, p. 57
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