21st Century Education

An educational pedagogy that utilizes

technology to deliver core academic skills
instruction, using real-world and project-
based methods for 21st Century students
Today’s Kindergarteners will retire inthe
year 2070.

Students today face issues such as:

– Global warming – Famine
– Poverty – Health issues
– Global population explosion

Students must have

21st century skills.
 What defines 21st Century?
Sorting Activity – 20th Century Classroom vs.21st
Century Classroom

Schools – From ‘buildings’ to 'nerve centers’

Teacher – The teacher is the facilitator rather than

the provider of information.

Curriculum – Pencil/paper becomes a secondary

tool. Instead of being textbook-driven
and teacher-centered, it isproject-based
and student-centered.
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom

- Passive learning - Active learning

- Learners work in - Learners work
isolation – classroom collaboratively
within 4 walls with classmates
and others
around the world-
the Global
Classroom
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom

- Teacher-centered: - Student-centered:
teacher is center teacher is
of attention and facilitator/coach,
provider of student is
information knowledge
- Little to no generator
student freedom - Great deal of
student freedom
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom

-Lessons focus on - Learning is

the lower levels of designed on the
Bloom’s Taxonomy – upper levels of
knowledge, Bloom’s
comprehension and taxonomy –
application analyzing,
evaluating,
creating – and on
the facets of
understanding
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom
- Low expectations - High
- Diversity in Expectations.
students is - We expect, and
ignored ensure, that all
students succeed
in learning at high
levels.
- Curriculum and
instruction
address student
diversity.
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom
-Teacher is judge. No - Self, Peer and other
one else sees assessments. Public
student work. audience, authentic
assessments
- Curriculum is
-Curriculum/School connected to
is irrelevant and students’ interests,
meaningless to the experiences, talents
students and the real world
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom
-The biggest mistake of “In the context of
past centuries in education, we define
teaching has been to differentiation as a
teacher’s reacting
treat all students as if
responsively to a
they were varients of
learner’s needs. The goal
the same individual, of a differentiated
and thus feel justified in classroom is maximum
teaching them the student growth and
same subjects in the individual success.”
same ways. - Tomlinson and Allan
-Howard Gardner(1994) (2002)
20th Century Classroom Vs. 21st
Century Classroom

-Print is the primary Performances, projects,

vehicle of learning and and multiple forms of
assessment. media are used for
learning and assessment

Literacy is the 3 R’s- Multiple Literacies of the

reading, writing and 21st Century-aligned to
living and working in a
‘rithmetic (math) globalized new
millennium.
 Intensify
Academic Leadership
and
Supervisory Skills

What do academic leaders say?

Mortimore and Sammons (1987)

Teaching has 6 to 10
times as much impact on
student achievement as
all other factors
combined.
Rick Dufour and Bob Eaker (1998)

Schools are effective

because of their
teachers.
Sanders, W.L. & Rivers, J.C. (1996)
The single most important factor
affecting student achievement is
teachers. Students who are assigned
to several ineffective teachers in a
row have significantly lower
achievement and gains in
achievement than those who are
assigned to several highly effective
teachers in sequence.
 Kati Haycock (1998)

If education leaders want to close the

achievement gap, they must focus,
first and foremost, on developing
qualified teachers.
 Thomas Guskey (1999)

Success in education hinges on what

happens at the classroom level. It
tied more directly to well-targeted,
high-quality, on–going, job-embedded
professional development.
 Oden, A. & Wallace (1999)

Success in education hinges on what

happens at the classroom level. It
tied more directly to well-targeted,
high-quality, on–going, job-embedded
professional development.