I also find the website to be extremely helpful in simplifying the understanding of the 21st century stands. It provides a brief overs of the framework and address the core subject areas and themes that are essential for students to master. The website also briefly describes the different components that are necessary to educators to address in education.
·
The interdisciplinary
themes:
o
Global Awareness, Financial, Economic, Business and
Entrepreneurial Literacy, and Civic Literacy.
·
Learning and Innovation
Skills:
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Creativity and Innovation, Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving, Communication and Collaboration.
·
Information, Media, and
Technology Skills:
o
Information Literacy, Media Literacy, Information,
Communication, and Technology (ICT) Literacy
·
Life and Career
Skills:
o
Flexibility and Adaptability, Initiative and Self-direction, Social
and Cross-cultural Skills, Productivity and Accountability, Leadership and
Responsibility.
I
find this website to be extremely helpful in many ways by providing me with new
ideas and suggestions of how to implement these standards into my classroom. It provides an interdisciplinary theme along
with samples of how to implement it in your classroom. I found that to be the extremely useful
because it provides teachers with ideas of how the standards and skills can be
address in each subject. I also find it
helpful that the site provides skill maps for all core subjects that have been
created through professional develop and feedback from other educators across
the nation.
This website
provides a variety of different resources to help teachers become acquainted
with the 21st century standards.
The website also has a blog where questions are posted to better explain
these standards or questions people may have.
In addition there are a variety of other different blog topics that are
also available on this site. The website also provides short video segments
that can help explain how the 21st century standards can impact
students learning. It demonstrates how
students collaborate to create a project.
It is usefully because it addresses different components that should be
address in all educational lessons of the 21st century. The website provides a variety of resources
that are extremely beneficial to educators to help them begin implementing
these standards.
I do not
disagree with the information on this page because I think it is very user
friendly and informational. The
information on this page can help improve teaching strategies to help make
students better prepared for their future work place. Educations today should no longer be teacher
centered learning but student’s collaboration and project-based learning. In order for students to be successful in
their future educators needs to start preparing students for their future. They need to encourage students collaboration
with other to problem solve and use real world technology and experiences to
help enhance their learning. However, I
do believe that parent’s support is necessary to effectively implement these
strategies and standards. Teachers can
help introduce these skills to students but parents need to be onboard with
these skills as well.
References:
Partnership
for 21st Century Skills. (n.d.). Parntership for 21st century
skills. Washington DC: Author. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/
Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that teachers must move away from outdated teaching practices and instead transform their lessons to better serve the skills that students will need to be successful in the 21st century. Now more than ever, students need to become more active learners and not just simply copy down the notes that are provided for them by their teacher. That being said, I think that project-based learning is an educational practice that teachers should consider implementing in their classroom. Project-based learning is a powerful way for students to be presented with authentic problems and work with one another to seek out solutions to the tasks at hand. As a result, students will have more control in their learning and practice applying their prior knowledge to new situations. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the transition from traditional models of teaching to new teaching practices will be very easy. It is certain that not only will teachers and students have to adapt to these new teaching methodologies, but parents as well. As a result, it is imperative that teachers communicate with parents on a regular basis so that the parents are aware of what is expected of their student. Parents will have to become accustomed to the fact that students will not be given the answer but instead must research the correct answer themselves. To fully give students the opportunity to develop their 21st century skills, both parents and teachers will have to diminish the control and allow for their students to become more independent (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, n.d.).
-Irene
References
Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (n.d.). A report and mile guide for 21st century skills. Washington DC: Author. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Report.pdf
Irene,
ReplyDeleteI agree that parents must actively be involved in their child’s learning. I am looking forward this year to incorporate a group project based assignment this year. I have assigned projects in the past that students created and presented to the class. However, I have never created a group based project like that before that requires students to critically think and problem solve. I am hoping I will be able to learn from this experience and identify effective and ineffective strategies to help implement more lessons that are project based next year.