2. The Skills you need… Learn how to learn Passion and Curiosity Like other people Nurture your Right Side of the Brain
3. Learn How To Learn by… 1. Constantly Absorbing Information 2. TeachingYourself 3. Learning New ways of doing Old things, or New ways of doing New things
10. To teach how to love learning so that students can learn how to learn Click to watch a video about good teachers http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=IubrSO66LIE&vq=small#t=35
11. Like Other People Managing and interacting with other people “Contrary to what we have come to believe in recent years, people skills will become more valuable than computer skills.”– T.L. Friedman in The World is Flat
12. Relationships Personalized interactions can never be outsourced Why Important? Interaction with other is inevitable Necessary at some point Face to face communication is vital, technology doesn’t always do it
13. Right Brain– Nurture it Technology can outperform the human left brain, so now look to your right side! Detected patterns Just do what you love to do!! Come up with inventions It’s not all about being able to plug numbers in and get an answer…
14. Globally Competitive How to make the classrooms Globally Competitive ? 21st century skills Emphasis on Technology Testing Strategies Project-based learning
15. Project- Based Leaning Research projects Science Labs Reports & Presentations about Findings
16. 21st century Skills The abilities to find and organize information to solve problems Frame and conduct investigations Analyze and synthesize data Apply learning to new situations Self-monitor and improve one’s own learning and performance Communicate well in multiple forms Work in teams Learn independently
18. Testing Strategies Countries are using open ended testing now, to make students learn and not memorize Manage testing at a state level, therefore teachers have more say so in what they teach and how they teach Standaradized testing