The 21st Century Teacher The Teaching Profession St. Joseph's College of Quezon City SY 2014 - 2015 Feel free to download and use it for your class!

1. The 21st Century Teacher
Chapter 2: Lesson 2

2. To remain relevant and interesting, the teacher must
possess 21st Century skills. The skills can be
categorized into 4, namely:
1. communication skills
2. learning and innovation skills
3. information, media, and technology skills
4. life and career skills
A teacher must possess them in order to survive in this
21st century and be able to contribute to the
development of 21st century learners.

3. Under each of these 4 clusters of skills are
specific skills.
1. Communication Skills:
a) teaming
b) collaboration
c) interpersonal skills
d) local, national, and global orientedness
e) interactive communication

4. 2. Learning and Innovation Skills:
a) creativity
b) curiosity
c) critical thinking problem solving
skills
d) risk taking

5. 3. Life and Career Skills:
a) flexibility and adaptability
b) leadership and responsibility
c) social and cross-cultural skills
d) initiative and self-direction
e) productivity and accountability
f) ethical, moral, and spiritual values

6. 4. Information, Media, and Technology
Skills:
a) visual and information literacies
b) media literacy
c) basic, scientific, economic, and
technological literacies
d) multicultural literacy

7. Visual Literacy - the ability to interpret, make
meaning from information presented in the form
of an image. It is also the ability to evaluate,
apply, or create conceptual visual
representations.
Information Literacy - the ability to identify
what information is needed, identify the best
sources of information for a given need, locate
those sources, evaluate the sources critically,
and share that information. Information literacy
is most essential in the conduct of research.

8. Media Literacy - the ability to critically analyze
the messages that inform, entertain, and sell to
us every day.
It’s the ability to bring critical thinking skills to
bear on all forms of media asking pertinent
questions about what’s there and noticing what’s
not.
It is also the ability to question what lies behind
media productions and to be aware of how these
factors influence content of media productions.

9. Scientific Literacy - encompasses written,
numerical, and digital literacy as they
pertain to understanding science, its
methodology, observations, and theories.
It is the knowledge and understanding of
scientific concepts and processes required
for personal decision making, participation
in civic and cultural affairs, and economic
productivity.

10. Economic Literacy - the ability to apply
basic economic concepts in situations
relevant to one’s life. It’s about cultivating
a working knowledge of the economic way
of thinking.
It encompasses a familiarity with
fundamental economic concepts such as
market forces or how the monetary system
works.

11. Technological Literacy - “computer skills” and the
ability to use computers and other technology to improve
learning, productivity, and performance.
Technological literacy is the ability to responsibly use
appropriate technology to:
a) communicate
b) solve problems
c) access, manage, integrate, evaluate, design, and create
information to improve learning in all subject areas
d) acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st
century

12. Another way of grouping the 21st century skills is
shown below:
A. Ways of Thinking - creativity, critical thinking,
problem solving, decision-making, and learning
B. Ways of Working - communication and
collaboration
C. Tools for Working - information and
communications technology (ICT) and information
literacy
D. Skills for Living in the World - citizenship, life
and career, and personal and social responsibility

14. THE END