The key points of this article are the skills, knowledge and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century. The article focuses on many skills including life and career skills; learning and innovation skills; and information, media and technology skills needed to be obtained by the students. In addition, the article also states the core subjects and support systems that must be used to make sure these skills are acquired.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by giving me a brief and straight forward outline of how I can better educate my students. This article gives me a list of exactly what skills the students in my class will need to succeed in life. As long as I enter the classroom with creative lessons, that the students relate too, they will be able to grap the skill that are needed throughout the 21st century.
The key points of this article are the 21st Century Student Outcome elements. These include core subjects and themes, learning and innovation skills, information, media, and technology skills, and life and career skills. The core subjects and themes include the basic subjects often taught in schools, including English, mathematics, history, and science. There are also interdisciplinary themes that must be integrated into these subjects, such as global awareness, civic literacy, health literacy, environmental literacy, and financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, which the students of today must be knowledgeable in.
Teaching students learning and innovation skills makes them ready for more complex life and career situations. Creativity plays a large role in teaching innovation skills. Students must feel comfortable brainstorming, communicate effectively, and acting on their creative ideas. Furthermore, critical thinking techniques help students grow into employees who are prepared to work in the 21st century workforce, with techniques such as reasoning, analyzing, and problem solving. In order to communicate ideas effectively, students ought to be taught how to collaborate in teams and listen effectively.
Integrating literacy of media and technology into the curriculum are extremely important themes for students of the 21st century to learn. Media has never been more prevalent than it is now and this will only continue to grow. On the other hand, the number of technological devices are exponentially increasing, making it essential for students to learn how to use all up and coming devices.
Possibly most importantly, students should be taught life and career skills starting in elementary school and continuing in high school. After a student's schooling is completed, and mostly before a student finishes college, careers are obtained and some are not adequately prepared for such. Employees have to be able to adapt and be flexible to contexts, responsibilities, and feedback. Students should feel comfortable working both in groups and independently, being in control and taking orders from others. These four elements of the 21st century student outcomes are essential skills to be taught to our future leaders, which must not be neglected.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it includes all themes that should be included in education, most of which are normally overlooked or taken for granted. Students should be learning these life skills in the classroom, and by using inquiry.
They key points of this article are that in addition to learning how to master the core classes often taught in schools, our students must also learn necessary skills of today’s world in order to compete and succeed. These necessary skills include the ability to think critically, to problem solve, communicate and collaborate with others. Schools must also encourage understanding of academic content by integrating 21st century interdisciplinary themes such as global awareness, financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, civic literacy, health literacy, and environmental literacy into core subjects.
I found another key point in the section of learning and innovation skills. More and more these skills are being looked at as skills that divide students who are ready for more intricate lives and work environments in today’s world and those who aren’t. A new focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is a necessity to prepare students for their futures. In here there was a point that stood out to me was to “View failure as an opportunity to learn.” Failure can provide a chance to learn? Often we forget that we often learn much more from our mistakes than our minor successes.
Other points that I found important and that hit me were that we need to emphasize a deep understanding rather than shallow knowledge because this relates back to the new CCSS and the fact that math needs to lose some weight. Quality over quantity is key. We must also allow our students to learn in relevant, real world modern day contexts and know that students learn best when they are actively participating in solving meaningful problems. It may be sad to hear for some current educators and be a surprise, but students don’t learn best by mere repetition and exercises, because that’s what it seems is happening. Our students will learn better when we challenge them to think and give them real world problems.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it gave me some insight on to all the necessary skills and themes that should be included in education. Some may come as trivial and thus we may pass over them, but by stating them outright it makes us (future) educators aware that we should find some way to incorporate these necessary skills into our classes to help better prepare our students.
The key points of the article are to expose the skills that students need to exemplify and master to succeed and thrive in the 21st century. Students need to learn the basic core knowledge of certain areas but to stand out from the crowd and be career/college ready, students need to hold other "academic values" to thrive in the 21st century. The article puts emphasis on skills such as learning and innovation, life and career, information, media, and technology along with core subject skills. Making the student a more well-rounded human being and hopefully be more career ready rather than not posses the skills necessary to successful in this world.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it gives me a better understanding to what we call "career and college ready." I know now some of the qualities that I must promote inside my classroom. Through inquiry learning students will be able to think creatively, communicate, reason effectively, and communicate with others. There are many benefits to have an inquiry based learning classroom. This type of exploration and discovery learning helps promotes understanding of content at a much higher level than what we have students learn today.
The key points of the article really focus around the idea that times are changing. We need to assimilate our kids into the ever-changing world they're growing up in. It talks about core knowledge, of course, but then also delves into the topics many teachers don't even give a second look at. Cross curricular teaching is such an important thing, and is (fortunately) becoming more emphasized. I think with all of the points of focus and areas they want us to incorporate, it's getting a little bit easier to at least begin to work other aspects into lessons. Of course, teaching to the test will still exist, but that said, I think it's a step in the right direction. At least with the framework there's a little bit of push to try new things and still be within the "rules" so to speak.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning though inquiry mainly because it offers more of a chance to do it. With this framework and the knowledge I am to incorporate, it's almost easier to use inquiry. The need to include things like life skills, environmental literacy, communication and collaboration, and flexibility just screams inquiry. In fact, I think a great opportunity would be missed if we in fact didn't use inquiry for these super inclusive lessons that seem to be becoming our focus. I love it.
Students in the 21st century have more asked of them then in the past. The P21 Framework hopes to enable students to thrive in this environment. This framework emphasizes not only skill in classroom matters, but abilities that will help students in their everyday lives. There is a definite focus on creativity and critical thinking, which is often left out of the curriculum due to teachers who are overwhelmed preparing students for tests or who do not see the need for teaching students anything other than their content area. The strand involving technology is also important as we are in an increasingly technologically advanced world, and while teaching students how to use technology is important, it is even more important to teach them how to teach themselves how to use it. There is no way for the education system to keep up with the technology that is constantly being created, but if educators can foster a desire in students to use technology safely, and learn themselves about new technologies, then students have been effectively educated in technology.
This article gives me a better appreciation for teaching with inquiry because it shows the multitude of ways in which inquiry can be brought into the classroom. Exploring things such as health promotion, civil justice, and technology is best done through inquiry based tasks, as it allows students to actually see the effects of these things on their everyday lives.
The key points in this article are emphasizing skills students need to become productive citizens in society. These skills can band should be emphasized in all subjects. One of the points that I really liked, " View failure as an opportunity to learn." Low test scores can become extremely discouraging for students and reason enough to give up in school. However teachers should make it a learning experience for the students to learn from their mistakes because they can only get better. This is a application one can use in the real world since students need to know how to deal with failure instead of allowing it to bring them down. If students don't learn from their mistakes they can never truly move forward. Just like in life if one is confronted with failure they need to find out what their mistakes are and figure out a solution. Another point made in the article was on Media Literacy. There is a new website or piece technology out everyday and it is important for schools to teach students the appropriate usage of all these wonderful tools. This is a skill students can use not only in school for example when researching or blogging for class but also when they are doing it for themselves.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because there is so many other things that need to be taught the class in addition to the content. Teaching students appropriate life skills is helping them to be prepared for the real world not just if they want to figure out the area of a roof to put shingles on it. All these standards can easily be woven into the lessons through appropriate modeling on the teachers behave as well. Part of an inquiry based class is making sure the students are independent thinkers.
The key points in this article are that students need to learn more than just the content that is being taught in the classroom. Students of today need to learn the skills that are needed to compete and excel in the real world. According to the P21 Framework, students need "a blend of content knowledge, specific skills, expertise, and literacies to be adequately prepared for the college and/or the real world. Through the curriculum in our schools, students must be able to learn "the essential skills for success in today's world, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration". Each of those skills is of paramount importance in the real world, and are often overlooked in our schools today. Teachers are more concerned with teaching the content that is explicitly listed in their curriculum and standards, they often miss these implicit skills that can be integrated into their lessons. For example, math teachers can really develop the critical problem solving and reasoning skills that the P21 Framework calls for. Teachers can facilitate the development of communication by encouraging students to present their work to in front of their peers.
Perhaps the most important aspect of the P21 Framework is the idea of teaching media literacy. Students often have a warped view of certain things because the media has a way of swaying young minds. Students need the skills to be able to decipher the hidden agendas of the many different media outlets.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by opening my eyes to the other skills that students must acquire during their time in school. As teachers, we would be doing our students a great disservice by not integrating these valuable life skills outlined in the P21 Framework into our curriculum. These skills can be integrated into our lessons through inquiry based teaching and learning. For example, students gain much better problem solving skills through inquiry based mathematics problems than through traditional problems. Through inquiry based group projects, students can learn how to work collaboratively, another skill in the P21 Framework. Inquiry based teaching and learning can ensure students gain these crucial skills.
The keys points of the article are preparing students for the 21st century teaching and learning. In today’s society, the P21 Framework is creating guidelines for teachers and students to follow not just about standards, but standards that are outside of the core subjects such as math and sciences. This framework notes the key outcomes wanted by students and teachers. This framework is creating new skills for students in areas of everyday life and career. Besides students being knowledgeable in core subjects, this framework shows more of the students being. Many of the skills listed in the P21 gives students a responsibility. The skills are more based on the everyday interactions. Skills I believed to be beneficial are working together and respecting different cultures, just to name a few. This framework can give students the preparing they need for the career world. So many students are put into situations in which they do not know how to conduct themselves, but this framework outlines components of everyday life skills.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because I believe that it will have students trying new things and to me personally I believe in school I was really never taught some of these skills. I was taught a majority of the skills from family or even peers. These life skills will challenge students and have them prepared for the “real world” once they are done with their education. Inquiry can be proven in this framework because it will apply to real life skills in which the students are then to apply this to their everyday life.
The key points of this article are the different skills that students living in the 21st century must acquire and master in order to succeed in both life and the work force. Many of the classrooms today just focus on the subject area itself and getting the student to pass a state mandated test, but how is filling in a scan tron going to help them be successful? The P21 framework is there to help teachers implement important aspects of life into their everyday classrooms. Some of these main focuses are on technology, media literacy, creativity, and critical thinking. The framework lays out the concepts and themes teachers do need to teach in their specific areas however, it shows what else needs to be taught, thus making every subject interdisciplinary and more interactive for every student. One of the main points of this framework is critical thinking and problem solving. I think that this area is one of the most important. Students need to be thinking critically, working problems out for themselves and coming to conclusions. The teacher is not there to be the primary source of knowledge, he or she should be there to facilitate learning but allow the students to "interact with each other to produce an outcome."
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by reminding me of the many different aspects of life skills that I can bring to my classroom. As a Social Studies teacher we often forget about the "social" part and just focus on the history, but with this outline it helps me see what I really can bring to my classes in all the different areas. Its not just about teaching dates and facts, its about facilitating research, examining media and asking questions. One of the most important things the P21 Framework said that helped me better understand teaching through inquiry was about productivity and accountability. All students should have goals that they work for all year and there should be growth and results that will produce a high quality product, a skill that students can use throughout life.
The key points of this article are the 21st century student outcomes and the 21st century support systems. The student outcomes are broken up into Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes, Learning and Innovation Skills, Information Media and Technology Skills, and Life and Career Skills. The idea of this section of the framework is to provide a list of criteria that students should be meeting through their education in order to perform well in a 21st century career. The article ends with a quick overview of the support systems needed to help reach the student outcomes previously listed. These include Standards, Assessment, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, and Learning Environments.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it laid out a lot of goals about self-sufficiency. The overall message that I took away from the P21 framework, as a math education student, was the emphasis on creativity and cooperation. This framework sets up the basis for a classroom that isn't centered around the teacher, but centered around discovery of an idea or relationship. I believe that students learn best when they discover connections for themselves, rather than being handed them, and cooperation and communication between the students in the classroom is very important to that end. I like the emphasis, since it's 21st century focused, on media literacy but I don't know how often I could implement that in a mathematics classroom.
The key points of this article are an overview of the P21 framework, not just in terms of course content but in terms of more abstract goals expected to be interwoven throughout core content areas. I could list the points one-by-one, but to avoid rehashing, it's essentially skills deemed necessary for the 21st century including critical thinking and information literacy with technology. The main goal of this framework is to prepare students to live and work in a 21st century environment.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it presents a set of skills that are more directly applicable to the real world. Of course the mathematics content students are expected to learn may never be used again, but with these goals in mind, the more abstract purpose of mathematics becomes clear: to teach students how to think and other problem-solving skills that will make them productive members of 21st century society.
The P21 Framework reminds me of the goal of the common core standards on a much broader scale. The framework places a strict emphasis on implementing the "4 c's" in every subject. In Learning and Innovation, Life and Career skills, and Information Media and technology skills, which are the three core aspects of this framework, we see an emphasis on creativity, communication, critical thinking and collaboration. The emphasis of integrating these ideas expresses their importance for students to grasp efficient problem solving skills. Problem solving is one the most important skills that we can teach students today, in my opinion. Having exceptional problem solving skills will allow a student to excel in wherever they choose. Hence the reason why i really enjoyed reading about their emphasis on problemsolving. Lastly, The P21 Framework is inquiry based. So if done properly the students will be able to achieve their learning and truly own it. The P21 Framework appears to attack the 21st century acedemically so that students can be successful in their lives and careers.
The key points of this article are the skills, knowledge and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century. The article focuses on many skills including life and career skills; learning and innovation skills; and information, media and technology skills needed to be obtained by the students. In addition, the article also states the core subjects and support systems that must be used to make sure these skills are acquired.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by giving me a brief and straight forward outline of how I can better educate my students. This article gives me a list of exactly what skills the students in my class will need to succeed in life. As long as I enter the classroom with creative lessons, that the students relate too, they will be able to grap the skill that are needed throughout the 21st century.
The key points of this article are the 21st Century Student Outcome elements. These include core subjects and themes, learning and innovation skills, information, media, and technology skills, and life and career skills. The core subjects and themes include the basic subjects often taught in schools, including English, mathematics, history, and science. There are also interdisciplinary themes that must be integrated into these subjects, such as global awareness, civic literacy, health literacy, environmental literacy, and financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, which the students of today must be knowledgeable in.
ReplyDeleteTeaching students learning and innovation skills makes them ready for more complex life and career situations. Creativity plays a large role in teaching innovation skills. Students must feel comfortable brainstorming, communicate effectively, and acting on their creative ideas. Furthermore, critical thinking techniques help students grow into employees who are prepared to work in the 21st century workforce, with techniques such as reasoning, analyzing, and problem solving. In order to communicate ideas effectively, students ought to be taught how to collaborate in teams and listen effectively.
Integrating literacy of media and technology into the curriculum are extremely important themes for students of the 21st century to learn. Media has never been more prevalent than it is now and this will only continue to grow. On the other hand, the number of technological devices are exponentially increasing, making it essential for students to learn how to use all up and coming devices.
Possibly most importantly, students should be taught life and career skills starting in elementary school and continuing in high school. After a student's schooling is completed, and mostly before a student finishes college, careers are obtained and some are not adequately prepared for such. Employees have to be able to adapt and be flexible to contexts, responsibilities, and feedback. Students should feel comfortable working both in groups and independently, being in control and taking orders from others. These four elements of the 21st century student outcomes are essential skills to be taught to our future leaders, which must not be neglected.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it includes all themes that should be included in education, most of which are normally overlooked or taken for granted. Students should be learning these life skills in the classroom, and by using inquiry.
They key points of this article are that in addition to learning how to master the core classes often taught in schools, our students must also learn necessary skills of today’s world in order to compete and succeed. These necessary skills include the ability to think critically, to problem solve, communicate and collaborate with others. Schools must also encourage understanding of academic content by integrating 21st century interdisciplinary themes such as global awareness, financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, civic literacy, health literacy, and environmental literacy into core subjects.
ReplyDeleteI found another key point in the section of learning and innovation skills. More and more these skills are being looked at as skills that divide students who are ready for more intricate lives and work environments in today’s world and those who aren’t. A new focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is a necessity to prepare students for their futures. In here there was a point that stood out to me was to “View failure as an opportunity to learn.” Failure can provide a chance to learn? Often we forget that we often learn much more from our mistakes than our minor successes.
Other points that I found important and that hit me were that we need to emphasize a deep understanding rather than shallow knowledge because this relates back to the new CCSS and the fact that math needs to lose some weight. Quality over quantity is key. We must also allow our students to learn in relevant, real world modern day contexts and know that students learn best when they are actively participating in solving meaningful problems. It may be sad to hear for some current educators and be a surprise, but students don’t learn best by mere repetition and exercises, because that’s what it seems is happening. Our students will learn better when we challenge them to think and give them real world problems.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it gave me some insight on to all the necessary skills and themes that should be included in education. Some may come as trivial and thus we may pass over them, but by stating them outright it makes us (future) educators aware that we should find some way to incorporate these necessary skills into our classes to help better prepare our students.
The key points of the article are to expose the skills that students need to exemplify and master to succeed and thrive in the 21st century. Students need to learn the basic core knowledge of certain areas but to stand out from the crowd and be career/college ready, students need to hold other "academic values" to thrive in the 21st century. The article puts emphasis on skills such as learning and innovation, life and career, information, media, and technology along with core subject skills. Making the student a more well-rounded human being and hopefully be more career ready rather than not posses the skills necessary to successful in this world.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it gives me a better understanding to what we call "career and college ready." I know now some of the qualities that I must promote inside my classroom. Through inquiry learning students will be able to think creatively, communicate, reason effectively, and communicate with others. There are many benefits to have an inquiry based learning classroom. This type of exploration and discovery learning helps promotes understanding of content at a much higher level than what we have students learn today.
The key points of the article really focus around the idea that times are changing. We need to assimilate our kids into the ever-changing world they're growing up in. It talks about core knowledge, of course, but then also delves into the topics many teachers don't even give a second look at. Cross curricular teaching is such an important thing, and is (fortunately) becoming more emphasized. I think with all of the points of focus and areas they want us to incorporate, it's getting a little bit easier to at least begin to work other aspects into lessons. Of course, teaching to the test will still exist, but that said, I think it's a step in the right direction. At least with the framework there's a little bit of push to try new things and still be within the "rules" so to speak.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning though inquiry mainly because it offers more of a chance to do it. With this framework and the knowledge I am to incorporate, it's almost easier to use inquiry. The need to include things like life skills, environmental literacy, communication and collaboration, and flexibility just screams inquiry. In fact, I think a great opportunity would be missed if we in fact didn't use inquiry for these super inclusive lessons that seem to be becoming our focus. I love it.
Students in the 21st century have more asked of them then in the past. The P21 Framework hopes to enable students to thrive in this environment. This framework emphasizes not only skill in classroom matters, but abilities that will help students in their everyday lives. There is a definite focus on creativity and critical thinking, which is often left out of the curriculum due to teachers who are overwhelmed preparing students for tests or who do not see the need for teaching students anything other than their content area. The strand involving technology is also important as we are in an increasingly technologically advanced world, and while teaching students how to use technology is important, it is even more important to teach them how to teach themselves how to use it. There is no way for the education system to keep up with the technology that is constantly being created, but if educators can foster a desire in students to use technology safely, and learn themselves about new technologies, then students have been effectively educated in technology.
ReplyDeleteThis article gives me a better appreciation for teaching with inquiry because it shows the multitude of ways in which inquiry can be brought into the classroom. Exploring things such as health promotion, civil justice, and technology is best done through inquiry based tasks, as it allows students to actually see the effects of these things on their everyday lives.
The key points in this article are emphasizing skills students need to become productive citizens in society. These skills can band should be emphasized in all subjects. One of the points that I really liked, " View failure as an opportunity to learn." Low test scores can become extremely discouraging for students and reason enough to give up in school. However teachers should make it a learning experience for the students to learn from their mistakes because they can only get better. This is a application one can use in the real world since students need to know how to deal with failure instead of allowing it to bring them down. If students don't learn from their mistakes they can never truly move forward. Just like in life if one is confronted with failure they need to find out what their mistakes are and figure out a solution. Another point made in the article was on Media Literacy. There is a new website or piece technology out everyday and it is important for schools to teach students the appropriate usage of all these wonderful tools. This is a skill students can use not only in school for example when researching or blogging for class but also when they are doing it for themselves.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because there is so many other things that need to be taught the class in addition to the content. Teaching students appropriate life skills is helping them to be prepared for the real world not just if they want to figure out the area of a roof to put shingles on it. All these standards can easily be woven into the lessons through appropriate modeling on the teachers behave as well. Part of an inquiry based class is making sure the students are independent thinkers.
The key points in this article are that students need to learn more than just the content that is being taught in the classroom. Students of today need to learn the skills that are needed to compete and excel in the real world. According to the P21 Framework, students need "a blend of content knowledge, specific skills, expertise, and literacies to be adequately prepared for the college and/or the real world. Through the curriculum in our schools, students must be able to learn "the essential skills for success in today's world, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration". Each of those skills is of paramount importance in the real world, and are often overlooked in our schools today. Teachers are more concerned with teaching the content that is explicitly listed in their curriculum and standards, they often miss these implicit skills that can be integrated into their lessons. For example, math teachers can really develop the critical problem solving and reasoning skills that the P21 Framework calls for. Teachers can facilitate the development of communication by encouraging students to present their work to in front of their peers.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the most important aspect of the P21 Framework is the idea of teaching media literacy. Students often have a warped view of certain things because the media has a way of swaying young minds. Students need the skills to be able to decipher the hidden agendas of the many different media outlets.
This article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by opening my eyes to the other skills that students must acquire during their time in school. As teachers, we would be doing our students a great disservice by not integrating these valuable life skills outlined in the P21 Framework into our curriculum. These skills can be integrated into our lessons through inquiry based teaching and learning. For example, students gain much better problem solving skills through inquiry based mathematics problems than through traditional problems. Through inquiry based group projects, students can learn how to work collaboratively, another skill in the P21 Framework. Inquiry based teaching and learning can ensure students gain these crucial skills.
The keys points of the article are preparing students for the 21st century teaching and learning. In today’s society, the P21 Framework is creating guidelines for teachers and students to follow not just about standards, but standards that are outside of the core subjects such as math and sciences. This framework notes the key outcomes wanted by students and teachers. This framework is creating new skills for students in areas of everyday life and career. Besides students being knowledgeable in core subjects, this framework shows more of the students being. Many of the skills listed in the P21 gives students a responsibility. The skills are more based on the everyday interactions. Skills I believed to be beneficial are working together and respecting different cultures, just to name a few. This framework can give students the preparing they need for the career world. So many students are put into situations in which they do not know how to conduct themselves, but this framework outlines components of everyday life skills.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because I believe that it will have students trying new things and to me personally I believe in school I was really never taught some of these skills. I was taught a majority of the skills from family or even peers. These life skills will challenge students and have them prepared for the “real world” once they are done with their education. Inquiry can be proven in this framework because it will apply to real life skills in which the students are then to apply this to their everyday life.
The key points of this article are the different skills that students living in the 21st century must acquire and master in order to succeed in both life and the work force. Many of the classrooms today just focus on the subject area itself and getting the student to pass a state mandated test, but how is filling in a scan tron going to help them be successful? The P21 framework is there to help teachers implement important aspects of life into their everyday classrooms. Some of these main focuses are on technology, media literacy, creativity, and critical thinking. The framework lays out the concepts and themes teachers do need to teach in their specific areas however, it shows what else needs to be taught, thus making every subject interdisciplinary and more interactive for every student. One of the main points of this framework is critical thinking and problem solving. I think that this area is one of the most important. Students need to be thinking critically, working problems out for themselves and coming to conclusions. The teacher is not there to be the primary source of knowledge, he or she should be there to facilitate learning but allow the students to "interact with each other to produce an outcome."
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry by reminding me of the many different aspects of life skills that I can bring to my classroom. As a Social Studies teacher we often forget about the "social" part and just focus on the history, but with this outline it helps me see what I really can bring to my classes in all the different areas. Its not just about teaching dates and facts, its about facilitating research, examining media and asking questions. One of the most important things the P21 Framework said that helped me better understand teaching through inquiry was about productivity and accountability. All students should have goals that they work for all year and there should be growth and results that will produce a high quality product, a skill that students can use throughout life.
The key points of this article are the 21st century student outcomes and the 21st century support systems. The student outcomes are broken up into Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes, Learning and Innovation Skills, Information Media and Technology Skills, and Life and Career Skills. The idea of this section of the framework is to provide a list of criteria that students should be meeting through their education in order to perform well in a 21st century career. The article ends with a quick overview of the support systems needed to help reach the student outcomes previously listed. These include Standards, Assessment, Curriculum and Instruction, Professional Development, and Learning Environments.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it laid out a lot of goals about self-sufficiency. The overall message that I took away from the P21 framework, as a math education student, was the emphasis on creativity and cooperation. This framework sets up the basis for a classroom that isn't centered around the teacher, but centered around discovery of an idea or relationship. I believe that students learn best when they discover connections for themselves, rather than being handed them, and cooperation and communication between the students in the classroom is very important to that end. I like the emphasis, since it's 21st century focused, on media literacy but I don't know how often I could implement that in a mathematics classroom.
The key points of this article are an overview of the P21 framework, not just in terms of course content but in terms of more abstract goals expected to be interwoven throughout core content areas. I could list the points one-by-one, but to avoid rehashing, it's essentially skills deemed necessary for the 21st century including critical thinking and information literacy with technology. The main goal of this framework is to prepare students to live and work in a 21st century environment.
ReplyDeleteThis article helps me to better understand teaching and learning through inquiry because it presents a set of skills that are more directly applicable to the real world. Of course the mathematics content students are expected to learn may never be used again, but with these goals in mind, the more abstract purpose of mathematics becomes clear: to teach students how to think and other problem-solving skills that will make them productive members of 21st century society.
The P21 Framework reminds me of the goal of the common core standards on a much broader scale. The framework places a strict emphasis on implementing the "4 c's" in every subject. In Learning and Innovation, Life and Career skills, and Information Media and technology skills, which are the three core aspects of this framework, we see an emphasis on creativity, communication, critical thinking and collaboration. The emphasis of integrating these ideas expresses their importance for students to grasp efficient problem solving skills. Problem solving is one the most important skills that we can teach students today, in my opinion. Having exceptional problem solving skills will allow a student to excel in wherever they choose. Hence the reason why i really enjoyed reading about their emphasis on problemsolving. Lastly, The P21 Framework is inquiry based. So if done properly the students will be able to achieve their learning and truly own it. The P21 Framework appears to attack the 21st century acedemically so that students can be successful in their lives and careers.
ReplyDelete