21st Century Learners & Differentiation
21st Century Skills for Students and Teachers
Previously, students are passive. Students are not able to demonstrate the teaching skill.
However, in this 21st Century, students are expected to be able to solve problem by themselves. Hence, the teaching approached is also driven in a way to
1. Triggers students’ motivation
2. Able to adapt to the constant change of 21st century.
3. It’s not only about acquiring knowledge, but how to integrate knowledge from different area, and put them into good use.
4. Social- Collaborative. Encourage peer interaction among learners
5. Students feel empowered to learn
6. Recognised students strength, weakness, and different multi talents
7.
Convergence and connection
1. English and art
Sequence and origami
Mix and Match – English and jigsaw puzzle
WALT: We are learning too (Learning Objective)
WILF: What am I looking For (Learning outcome )
PCK : A person cannot be an efficient teacher, if he does have any content knowledge.
PK – Pedagogical knowledge
CK – Content knowledge
IB focus on learners’ profile
How do you relate 21st century skills to IB and IB to Technology?
1. To facilitate critical thinking skills, and self learning
2. Self regulate learning
3. To promote problem solving
4. To stay relevant and current – global context
5. To cultivate a hands on and practical research methodology.
6. Active learning- Interactive- Collaboration- Sharing of ideas.
7. Experience of learning. Experiential learning – David Kolb 1984
8. Enquire based learning
9.Peer to peer interaction- Collaborative teamwork
10. Lifelongl learners who understand that other people , with their differences, can also be right. – to adapt to constant changes in technology and society in the future.
11. To recognize the individual differences in different learning domain.
4C
Communication
CreativeThinking
Critical Thinking
Collaborative
Why do we relate 21st century skills to IB schools?
1. To develop research skills
2. Open minded – students from different countries
3. To develop higher order thinking skills
4. Relating to others
5. Participating and contributing
6. Teacher’s answer
Inquiry based approach
Constructivisim:
Constructivism is a learning theory found in psychology which explains how people might acquire knowledge and learn. It therefore has direct application to education. The theory suggests that humans construct knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
Differentiated Instruction?
The planning of curriculum and instruction using strategies that address student strength, interest, skills and readiness in flexible learning environment.
If you are not motivated in the first 5 mins of your class, then you tend to loss attention from students. Stimulate the cognitivty of students to capture the intellectual mind.
It allows you to delivery the lesson simulateneously .
Criteria
1. High quality instruction
2. Provide choices
3. Engaging to the students
4. Has clear expectation
5. Allow meaningful collaboration
6. In sum, teacher has to be observant.
How to know the level of learner? (Excellent, average, struggling)
1. The time taken to answer the questions/exercise
2.Answer with affirmative or not.
3. Teacher has to be observant.
Differentiation mechanism
1. D. Content (Input: What will be taught)
2. D. Process (The activities that help students make sense of content)
3. D. Products (Output: by which the students demonstrates successful acquisition of knowledge)
KUD (Knowledge Understanding, Doing)
How are we meeting students’ needs?
1. By constantly asking them question.
2. A teacher can engage students with 5 senses to adapt to different level learners.
· For eg. Provide textbooks for visual and word learners, Allow auditory learners to listen to audio books.
· Give kinesthetic learners the opportunity to complete an interactive assignment online.
How does our instruction reflect our students?
1. Giving a clear instruction will give a clear and define picture in students’ mind. It is best to presented the new knowledge with example. Similarly, a random instruction with different keywords will make students confuse.
2. Students understand better with shorter keywords straight to the point. Instead of a long winded sentence.
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Downsizing- Reduce
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