How schools would require to prepare for the future trends? This is a frequent question in the minds of educationalists and all schools, puzzled are the schools on their ability to withstand and upgrade to the newer expectations and requirements. Understanding the challenges and the opportunities that are emerging constantly we see the technologies and the education trend dramatically changing to provide a concrete development in the strategies of schools.
The education in most countries has shifted from the mere learning to project-based learning, from STEM to STEAM concepts. The opportunities for the younger generation are dependent on the schools as they need to provide the miraculous and futurist preparations for the students who are the future of the nation.
In most case it is not just required to think in terms of students but also teachers need to be paid attention for the complete development and knowledge enhancement. Coming again in order to meet the trend of the 21st century it is required to provide strategies with the creativity which makes it complete in development.
The learning for both the teachers and students need to be with the problem solving skills.
Required to stay updated with the rapidly changing technology and policies.
Build in them the ability to adapt and resilience with the leadership skills.
Create a platform to understand and aid for the social development.
Impose creativity learning and managing the key stuffs potentially.
Shift from LOTS (Lower Order Thinking Skills) to HOTS (High Order Thinking Skills)
Transforming from STEM to STEAM
Teachers need to promote the 5E’s - Education, Exploration, Experience, Enthusiasm and Eccentricity.
In LOTS it used to be Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Exploration and then comes Knowledge Creation while in HOTS the reverse of it is actually takes place which provides lasting and more productive learning by going for creation, exploration and then acquisition. This builds a better form of 21st century learning that is project-based.
When it was encountered to a professional who would say she does a lot of communication, collaboration, learning and teaching all of these along with vocabulary, lessons, guidance and of course she is none other than the 21st century teacher.
Let us seek to understand the characteristics of the 21st century teacher and the various phenomenon that supports the ultimate success in education.
Student Centered Teaching
This in other words known to be personalized teaching as gone are the days when students are given attention for spoon-fed but now the same attention is required to build the dreams of the student as each of them are different in own style who possess variance in interest, goals and skills.
Students are Creators
In the present day the students are exposed to many tools which are highly innovative and productive to support the creative ability of the students. We are now observing them to use the technology medium effectively with the use of many graphical creations, infographic, mind maps, forum participation, article submission and innovative ideas.
Global Exposure
With the possibility to learn the technologies, it becomes possible to have a hand-on experience to the different study contents and it gets possible to interact with people of different countries to stay updated. Going global is just not access to the information but rather sufficiently communicate, culturally interact and gain wisdom.
Use of BYOD
Permitting the use of own devices for education does predict the much distractions over it and stay a while with it you are lost with the distraction. It would not be apt for education quite some time back but now the situations are different while the use of the smart phone has crossed the necessity. Would it not be interesting to share what you have googled which stands to be a reference for the complete learning platform.
Flipped Learning
This is another trend which helps to develop the project based learning and the flipped classrooms are popular in the new generation learning. It it nothing but you would generally and basically convert the learning classroom as a discussion and exploration platform where more ideas become the outcome rather than the basic understanding of the subject.
Digital Learning
Another useful technology is the digital learning which comes to take up the wholesome understanding of the students. In the emergence of the digital learning it is so defined that once one of my student comes up saying the complete session of classroom explaining the Vectors in Physics has merged with the concept which was imaginary with the few minutes of the digital learning. In fact it has come up as a free resource, rather believe it that the digital learning has developed the self learning skills in students and they are being able to think in terms of Z-platform for the complete learning.
Provide Real Audience
It is possible for the student to exhibit their work to the real audience, encourage your student to blog which establishes the real connect with the like-minded audience. The world has become habitual over blogging, participating in forums etc. which gives a feel that not to blog is never an available option.
Project based learning
The students today never need to wait for the formal education to complete in order to play a real time experimenting. It is obvious that their resources are extensive and they cater to the modern web-based learning and the assistance and guidance is what expected from their mentor.
Online Ethics
Schools also stand responsible to educate the generation children to maintain a good professional online presence and build a positive digital presence will give them good reputation. Sharing of valuable and informative content keeps them moving professional and when this is followed by the teachers of the schools, the students rather follow them positively.
Innovation
The ultimate of all of these is the innovation, it is not that simple as it is generally spoken about. Any learning to the fullest would lead to the interest of innovation, however a step towards the actual act over this thought requires ideas, time, budget, resource and the deliberate motivation.
I would ask schools to act on these terms and get them to be known for the new generation school. Great thoughts generated, greater implementation obtained and the innovative spirit in students take them to better heights.
Subashini Srikumar
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Great blog – well described and good tips – definetely worth sharing so that many schools and related peoples will be benefited.
I really appreciate this post, so rich with hints and positive energy ! Great going!
Great that i have got some idea of teaching for the future generations. Thanks.