The document discusses strategies for teaching 21st century skills in education. It recommends making the curriculum relevant by starting with generative topics that interest students. It also suggests teaching through academic disciplines to help students learn disciplinary skills and knowledge. Additionally, the document advises simultaneously developing lower-order and higher-order thinking skills in students.
The document discusses strategies for teaching 21st century skills in education. It recommends making the curriculum relevant by starting with generative topics that interest students. It also suggests teaching through academic disciplines to help students learn disciplinary skills and knowledge. Additionally, the document advises simultaneously developing lower-order and higher-order thinking skills in students.
The document discusses strategies for teaching 21st century skills in education. It recommends making the curriculum relevant by starting with generative topics that interest students. It also suggests teaching through academic disciplines to help students learn disciplinary skills and knowledge. Additionally, the document advises simultaneously developing lower-order and higher-order thinking skills in students.
The document discusses strategies for teaching 21st century skills in education. It recommends making the curriculum relevant by starting with generative topics that interest students. It also suggests teaching through academic disciplines to help students learn disciplinary skills and knowledge. Additionally, the document advises simultaneously developing lower-order and higher-order thinking skills in students.
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LEGAL BASES OF
PHILIPPINE EDUCATION SYSTEM Teaching and Learning 21st Century Skills Make it relevant
• To make curriculum relevant, teachers need to begin
with generative topics, ones that have an important place in the disciplinary or interdisciplinary study at hand and resonate with learners and teachers. Teach through the disciplines • Learning through disciplines entails learning not only the knowledge of the discipline but also the skills associated with the production of knowledge within the discipline. Through disciplinary curriculum and instruction students should learn why the discipline is important, how experts create new knowledge, and how they communicate about it. Simultaneously develop lower and higher order thinking skills • Lower-order exercises are fairly common in existing curricula, while higher-order thinking activities are much less common. Higher-level thinking tends to be difficult for students because it requires them not only to understand the relationship between different variables (lower-order thinking) but also how to apply —or transfer—that understanding to a new, uncharted context (higher-order thinking). Encourage transfer of learning
• Students must apply the skills and knowledge they
gain in one discipline to another. They must also apply what they learn in school to other areas of their lives. This application—or transfer—can be challenging for students (and for adults as well). Teach students to learn how to learn
• There is a limit to the skills, attitudes, and
dispositions that students can learn through formal schooling. Therefore, educating them for the 21st century requires teaching them how to learn on their own. To do so, students need to be aware of how they learn. Address misunderstandings directly • Another well-documented science-of-learning theory is that learners have many misunderstandings about how the world really works, and they hold onto these misconceptions until they have the opportunity to build alternative explanations based on experience. To overcome misconceptions, learners of any age need to actively construct new understandings. Promote teamwork as a process and outcome • Together, students and the teacher can use a studio format in which several students work through a given issue, talking through their thinking process while the others comment. . Make full use of technology to support learning • Technology offers the potential to provide students with new ways to develop their problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills, transfer them to different contexts, reflect on their thinking and that of their peers, practice addressing their misunderstandings, and collaborate with peers—all on topics relevant to their lives and using engaging tools. Foster students’ creativity
• A common definition of creativity is “the
cognitive ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.” Creativity is prized in the economic, civic, and global spheres because it sparks innovations that can create jobs, address challenges, and motivate social and individual progress