WHAT SKILLS DO YOU NEED

FOR THE 21ST CENTURY? ARE

YOU READY?
TOPIC: 21ST CENTURY SKILLS OF TEACHERS
NCBTS: DOMAIN 7-PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
COMPETENCIES OF TEACHERS
Objectives:

Give the different skills that the 21st century

teachers possess

Write a pledge/commitment on becoming a twenty-first

century teachers.
Are You a 21st Century Teacher?
What is an effective teacher?
 “ An effective teacher who does not bid his/her
learners enter the house of his wisdom, but rather
bid them, to the threshhold of their own minds” -
Kahlil Gibran
 The teacher plays a role...
entertainer
leader
enthusiast humanist
Optimist
sentinel collaborator
Experimenting
revolutionary exploring
The 21st century teachers need to
know how to facilitate the
acquisition of
knowledge,skills,attitudes and
values beyond academics.
What skills do you need for the
21st century?
The 5C’s of the k to 12 teacher

What are these 5C’s?

What on earth am I here for?
Somebody said that ...

“A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump ;

but a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree.

Are you that flourishing tree?

“ Teaching like any truly human activity emerges
from one’s inwardness. When I do not know
myself, I cannot know who my students are.When
I do not know myself, I cannot know my subject-
not at the deepest level of my embedded personal
meaning.

Anne Sullivan( tutor for Helen keller)

Does teaching have that personal
meaning in you?
 You may have the commitment but
you don’t have a competence and
what you gonna do in the classroom?
Alice said: “One
“ I dare say ,” replied the
can’t believe
queen, “ You haven’t had
impossible much practice. Why
things.” sometimes I believe as
many as ten impossible
things before breakfast.”
Do you encourage your students to exercise
their creativity?

What are those activities?

To be creative is to think outside the box.
 “If you have the heart for
teaching and a kind-heart
for your students, then you
have compassion”
Do you stretch on and on and
all your patience and
understanding for your own
s

students?
The first great gift we can bestow on
others is a good example,do we as
teachers, walk the talk?
The 5C’s of the k to 12 teacher
A vision of K-12 students today
Is it a must to teachers embed the 21st
Century Skills? Why?
"One looks back with appreciation to the
brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to
those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw
material, but warmth is a vital element
for the growing plant and for the soul of
the child." - Carl Jung
 Fellow teachers together lets do
it..together we can make a difference..
DJ ALBABES