TITLE: THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHER
I. INTRODUCTION
To make a relevant and interesting, the teacher must possess 21st century skills. A 21st century skill categorized into four (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 contribute to the development of the 21st century learners.
II. SUMMARY/ DISCUSSION
There are four (4) cluster under the 21st century skills are specific skills.
1. Effective Communication skills
· Teaming
· Collaboration
· Interpersonal skills
· Local and national and global orientedness
· Interactive communication
2. Learning Innovation skills
· Creativity
· Curiosity
· Critical thinking problem solving skills
· Risk taking
3. Life and Career skills
· Flexibility and adaptability
· Leadership and responsibility
· Social and cross-cultural skills
· Initiative and self-direction
· Productivity and accountability
· Ethical, moral and spiritual values
4. Information, media, and technology skills
· Visual literacy
· Information literacy
· Media literacy
· Scientific literacy
· Economic literacy
· Technological literacy
III. REACTION/REFLECTION
In order for a teacher to not become a boring, we need to cope up in the 21st century wherein a teacher must be adequately equipped with communication skills, learning and innovation skills, information, media and technology skills and life and career so that you will cope up. Today’s learners may feel easily bored when the teacher only used chalkboard in teaching but when the teacher used technology in teaching especially in Araling Panlipunan, there are no students will be going to sleep at class because they will feel amazed on what their teacher used and they will adapt it when they will have a report they can also use it. As my observation, students today are likely to listen when they saw pictures and they also will participate when your class turns into a gameshow but in educational purpose.
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TITLE: THE TEACHER AS A CURRICULARIST
I. INTRODUCTION
A Curricularist is describe to a professional who is a curriculum specialist. A person who is involved in curriculum, knowing, writing, planning, implementing, evaluating, innovating and initiating may be designated as a Curricularist. A teacher can also be called a curricularist, because of their role is broader and can be inclusive of other function. Does the teacher deserve to be called a curricularist?
II. SUMMARY/ DISCUSSION
Teacher has a different role in the classroom and in the school. Classroom is the first place of curricular engagement, wherein in the classroom happened the interactions of the leaners and the teachers that will lead to learnings. Thus, the curriculum is the heart of schooling.
How will you describe a teacher as a curricularist? The teacher as curricularist…
1. know the curriculum, because learning begins in knowing a teacher must know first about the curriculum and has a mastery of the subject matter that he or she will be going to teach. (Knower)
2. writes the curriculum, teacher should be involved in designing a curriculum, they are part of the intellectual journey of the learners where they provide their learners an experiences that will enable the learners to learn. Like what the teacher do every day, they write a lesson plan.
3. plans the curriculum, a good curriculum has to be planned. In planning a curriculum, the teacher must be including because they are the one who used the curriculum and they also know what are the things need to include or not.
4. initiates the curriculum, the teacher is obliged to implement. The implementation of a new curriculum requires open mindedness of the teacher about its constraints and difficulties in doing this at first. However, a transformative teacher will never hesitate to try something novel and relevant.
5. innovates the curriculum, a hallmarks of an excellent teacher are creativity and innovation. A curriculum is dynamic but its keep on changing. A good teacher, innovates the curriculum and become a curriculum innovator.
6. implements the curriculum, one of the role of the teacher is become a curriculum implementer, they are the one who give life in the planned curriculum. Teachers are the one who has an engagement with the learners in order for them to achieve the desired learning outcome where the teaching, guiding, facilitating skills of the teacher has a high expectation. The success of a recommended, well written and planned curriculum depends on the implementation.
7. evaluates the curriculum, teachers are the one who will evaluate the recommended, well written and planned curriculum they are the one whose using it and they know what are the things need to improve or remove in order to have a well-designed curriculum. the main purpose of curriculum evaluation is to improve not prove.
III. REACTION/ REFLECTION
Being a teacher is not an ordinary job. It doesn’t mean if you are a teacher the only thing you do is writing a daily lesson plan, recording the works of the learners, teaching the subject matter, this are the limited things that other people know about the teacher but the teacher are also the one whose designing, planning, implementing and using a curriculum so that they are also the one who will found out what the thing need to improve, remove and to add so that the desired curriculum may be achieve. While reading this readings, I realize that teaching is uneasy job because you’re not just studying your lesson everyday but you need to learn more about the curriculum that you’ve using and to cope up in changes.
Source:
Bilbao P. P et. Al (2015). Curriculum Development for Teachers, pages 8-10
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