Integrating 21 st century skills with content
- 1. INTEGRATING 21ST CENTURY SKILLS WITH CONTENT
- 2. These skills are about the thinking processes and behavior students will use as they learn subject area content and work with other to deepen their understanding of the content. All of the frameworks emphasize the need to ground 21st century skills in core content, and especially in an interdisciplinary fashion.
- 3. Connecting the content knowledge to real-world applications and problem situations that enable students to see how what they are learning connects with their lives and the world around them.
- 4. Emphasizing deep understanding of the learning by focusing on projects and problems that require students to use the content knowledge in new ways and to extend their understanding through collaboration with others.
- 5. Helping students understand and monitor the thinking processes they are using by including metacognitive activities that ask students to reflect on their use of thinking structures and the effectiveness of the thinking strategies they employed.
- 6. Using technology to help students access, analyze, organize and share what they are learning and allow students to independently locate appropriate tools for the task.
- 7. Providing opportunities for students to become “creators as well as consumers of published information” (Apple, 2008) by providing opportunities for creating and verifying their own entries in collaborative site and evaluating contributions of others.
- 8. Engaging students in solving complex problems that require higher order thinking and application of content and that result in new perspectives and solutions to problem.
- 9. Providing opportunities for students to work collaborative as they gather information, solve problems, share ideas, and generate new ideas.
- 10. Developing life and career skills by creating opportunities for students to become self-directed learners who take responsibility for their own learning and who learn how to work effectively with others.
- 11. Helping students make connections between subjects, concepts and ideas and with others, including those outside of the classroom.
- 12. How Should Instruction Change to Prepare Students for Success in the 21st Century?
- 13. Instruction that meets the needs of today’s students will incorporate A variety of learning opportunities and activities The use of appropriate technology tools to a accomplish learning goals Project-and problem- based learning Cross- curricular connections A focus on inquiry and the student-led investigation Collaborative learning environments, both within and beyond the classroom *High levels of visualization and the use of visuals to increase understanding *Frequent, formative assessments including the use of self-assessment.
- 14. MEMBERS: Rentina Pangilinan Guada Camus Rossbie Mondejar Miaca Antig Judyann Catigbe Andrea Nunez 10:30 – 11:30 am