SUCCESS OR

SIGNIFICANCE

KNOW YOUR IMPACT

PRESENTATION TO (INDEPENDENT) SCHOOL TEACHERS:

What you need to know:Facilitator: Ted TownsendIntentions/Objectives: 1. Explore/define SELECTED current

concepts/technologies that influence contemporary classroom practice.1.1 Fourth Industrial revolution1.2 Generational Influences1.3 Multiculturalism1.4 Metacognition

2. Apply the information/approaches /demands to enhance our own professional success criteria in theclassroom.

3.Flipping the Classroom

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21ST CENTURY DEMANDS DEMAND NEW AND

APPROPRIATE TEACHING AND LEARNING

METHODOLOGIES BUILT ON NEW WAYS OF INTERPRETING

TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR A NEW WORLD

THE 4 “CS” ESSENTIAL TO 21ST CENTURY TEACHING & LEARNING

Entrepreneurship

Factors/Concepts that influence the Contemporary Classroom

Flipped Classrooms

Blended Learning

4th

Industrial Revolution

Generational

Characteristics

Metacognition

Multiculturalism

AThe ethical teacher needs to consider carefully whether his/her conceptions of curricula are likely to prepare his/her students students for life in the 21st century. Do they reflect and anticipate the challenge of living in a world which is rapidly changing and becoming even more complex, fragmented and uncertain?AndBI believe that the best way [to handle a curriculum] is ‘ tokeep things in process, to disrupt, to keep the system inplay, to set up procedures to continuously demystify the realities we create, and to fight the tendency for our categories to congeal.’

The Challenges Facing the Teacher

So we need to ask ourselves the following questions:

A = Is my teaching relevant, am I achieving what I set out to achieve and really preparing my learners for tomorrow?

B = Are my pedagogic decisions (methodologies) significant?

C = Is what I do in the classroom teaching/stimulating creativity and entrepreneurship and an enquiring mind?

THE ANSWERS DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY DEPEND ON ICTs (Information and Communication Technology) Though clearly

they help a great deal to create the right base for the 21st Century.

Fourth Industrial Revolution

The so-called 4IR will:Transform the way we live, work, think and behave. Jobs/activities that don’t currently exist will emerge, others disappear.THE FUTURE WORKFORCE WILL HAVE TO ALIGN ITS SKILLS SET

Adaptability Social Skills Emotional Skills

Problem solving Intercultural understanding

Communication collaborationCritical thinking critical reasoning

Analytical skills empathyCompassion Resilience Self-control

Self-Efficacy Self-confidence Innovation

Media, Information

Technology skills

Learning & Innovation

skills

Life &career skills

creativity

Artificial IntelligenceHuman Intelligence

21st Century Skills?

Critical ThinkingLeadershipProblem-solvingInitiative (Entrepreneurship)Social AwarenessTeamworkCollaborationEthicsFlexibilityCreativityADAPTABILITY

It is not simply the “what” it’s the HOW and

WHY

Moving from simply knowing

to deep understanding and creative application

Metacognitiveskills

Generation Y = The Millennials: Born 1977 -1995• Tech savvy : 2 screens• Think 3D• Radical transparency• Slacktivists• Multicultural• Tolerance• Communication with text • Share stuff, want to be

discovered• Low self-confidence• Present focused, optimists

Generation Z:Born from 1996 –• Tech innate 5 screens• Think in 4D• Judiciously share• Active volunteers• Blended (race and gender)• Togetherness• Communicate in images

(imoges)• Make stuff• Have humility • Future focussed• Realists• Want to work for success

Generational Characteristics (Tendencies)

Z generation. 8 second attention span. Don’t whinge: Meet them on their own terms.

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Multiculturalism

Searching questions:

1. What does the term multicultural mean?2. What demands does it make on you, the teacher?3. What are your experiences of managing an

inclusive multicultural class?4. What are the particular challenges you face? 5. How do you embrace those challenges/demands?

As a result of the needs of the 4IR and Artificial Intelligence

• The development and deployment of human skills will shift from knowing content to analysing and applying the content;

• To achieve this shift metacognition (the ability to think about the way(s) we are thinking (thus use of reflective pedagogical approaches), will need to become an inherent part of the teacher’s preparation;

• The classroom dynamic will change. Teachers will no longer be the providers and learners the recipients of knowledge;

• Teachers will be facilitatorswith learners taking responsibility for their own learning.

The Real Challenge of the Contemporary, 21st Century Classroom

Metacognition Visible Thinking & Learning

Thinking about

thinking

What are the characteristic marks of the effective 21st century teacher? Every learner deserves a great teacher not by chance but by design. Let’s put it all together.*

________________________________________________________These statements are based on the intensive research undertaken by John Hattie and presented in his book Visible Learning for Teachers

• Is not wedded to specific ideas or methodologies;• Regularly focuses on evaluating the effects they

have on their learners and adjusts teaching methods accordingly;

• Sees learning through the eyes of the learners• Marries content to pedagogy to technology

(LSM) and the way the learners learn; • Engages the learners in collaborative,

productive conversation.

Success is achieved by the teachers

• who see themselves as evaluators of their effects on learners;

• develop a mind frame in which they see it as their primary role to evaluate their effect on learning;

• understand that a teacher’s beliefs and commitments are the greatest influence on learner achievement.

Flipped Classrooms/ Lessons

At Home In the classroom• Not just doing homework online. Guided practice- not in isolation. • New content/concepts experienced More time for discussions, • here first. practical application and higher-• Learners have control over time order thinking.

pace to pursue content More time and freedom forinteraction.

The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lesson and homework elements of a course are reversed. Short video inputs are viewed by learners at home before the class session, while in-class time is devoted to exercises, projects, or discussions.

Blended learning is an education

program that combines online digital

media with traditional classroom

methods. It requires the physical

presence of both teacher and student,

with some element of student control

over time, place, path, or pace. Wikipedia

Blended Learninghttps://youtu.be/paQCE58334M

WATCH THESE VIDEOS ON FLIPPED CLASSROOMS

When you have watched the video on flipped classrooms summarise, in no more than half an A4 page, the main points made by the presenter to show that you understand fully what he said.

https://youtu.be/uHK_a9SuTIkhttps://youtu.be/bwvXFlLQClUhttps://youtu.be/Ot_dKs_LRf0https://youtu.be/-hwu3xqbMKw

Answer the following questions:1. How would/could you use your class time differently?2. Which of your topics could you flip tomorrow and for

what reason?3. What kind of resources would/could you use in

conjunction with/ instead of videos?4. How would you get the learners to peruse your content

before class?

THEN

Task 1: Look Carefully at the following photographs of these two Firth of Forth Bridges in Scotland. The one is the original Victorian Railway Bridge, the other is a picture of the more modern road bridge. Make notes for yourself based on the set of questions that follow.

Now consider the following questions:1. Which of the two bridges seems to you to be

the more solid? Why?2. Look at the shape of the two bridges. What

word or phrase would you use to describe the shape of each bridge?

3. How are they similar/different. List the similarities and differences?

4. If you were commissioned to build a similar bridge what would your starting point be?

Now extend your information-base by watching the following YouTube video link:

https://www.theb1m.com/video/forth-bridges-spanning-three-centuries-of-engineering-innovation

1. What extra information did you glean from accessing the internet link?

2. What mathematical lessons can be taught on the information contained in this link?

3. Can other subjects benefit from viewing this link? If so, what are they and how?

Task 2: Theme – Poems can teach us to see something with fresh eyes.

(How would you use the following poem to promote the theme in a flipped lesson?)

Impala

Imagine, for a moment,as you lift your eyesfrom the panting plainsto the gentle rise wherea shady copse of acaciatreeshas green young leaf budscooled by the breezethat you seewith the sightof a hunter.

Look

a leafless branch curvesjust enoughto be a horndark-ridged and rough

the rich red browns Suddenly swift when put to flightyou took for ground are rippling shoulders The impala leaps andsleek and Soars in fright then streams away acrossround above the flanks – pale fawn – the plainsthe colours of a drying thorn

and standsImpala!

to watch the danger past…

Task 2. Prepare this poem for an English 2nd Language Lesson.

Impala

Imagine, for a moment,as you lift your eyesfrom the panting plainsto the gentle rise wherea shady copse of acaciatreeshas green young leaf budscooled by the breezethat you seewith the sightof a hunter.

Look

a leafless branch curvesjust enoughto be a horndark-ridged and rough

the rich red browns Suddenly swift when put to flightyou took for ground are rippling shoulders The impala leaps andsleek and Soars in fright then streams away acrossround above the flanks – pale fawn – the plainsthe colours of a drying thorn

and standsImpala!

to watch the danger past…

YouTube video linkhttps://youtu.be/Zq3kjbRtpNI

THANK YOU

CongratulationsYou have just engaged in a teaching/learning process demonstrating your ability to apply metacognition and making the entire process VISIBLE

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