Module 12 Developing 21st Century Approaches

Module 12

Developing 21st Century Approaches

Description: In 21st century classrooms, teachers typically spend 90 percent of their time facilitating learning and 10 percent of their time providing direct instruction. The objective of this module is to have you develop strategies for promoting the skills of listening and speaking, giving directions, observing and monitoring, questioning, encouraging, and intervening. You will also gain a better understanding of the process of accepting change.

Pair and Share: Reflecting on Module 9

Share your answers to the Take-Home Exercise: Reflecting on Module 11 with a colleague and the whole group as directed. Record any new and good ideas on the lines that follow.

Exercise 1: Facilitating Learning

Facilitating learning involves many skills, including listening and speaking, giving directions, questioning, observing and monitoring, encouraging, and intervening. Teachers must learn these skills. Learners must also develop these skills, since they too are working with others.

Click here to read about skills for facilitating learning.

Step 1

What are some other effective questioning strategies? As answers are shared, record good ideas.

Step 2

Work with a partner. Identify two or three effective questions that appear in the content from an earlier module. Write the questions, where they are found, and why they are effective.

Step 3

Search for a question from an earlier module that you think could be improved. Write the question, where it is found, and why you think it could be improved.

Step 4

Now rewrite the question to make it more effective.

Step 5

How has your change made the question more effective?

As part of good questioning skills, teachers provide think time or wait time. Think time (or wait time) is the time between a teacher's question and a learner's response. It is also the time between a learner's response and the teacher's or next learner's response.

Research indicates that most teachers provide only one second of think time when at least three to five seconds are preferred. The benefits of allowing for think time include increased levels of:

Responses from a greater number of learners
Listening among learners
Accurate and confident responses

Next: Proceed to Exercise 2

Module 12 Developing 21st Century Approaches

	Module 12 Developing 21st Century Approaches Description: In 21st century classrooms, teachers typically spend 90 percent of their time facilitating learning and 10 percent of their time providing direct instruction. The objective of this module is to have you develop strategies for promoting the skills of listening and speaking, giving directions, observing and monitoring, questioning, encouraging, and intervening. You will also gain a better understanding of the process of accepting change. Pair and Share: Reflecting on Module 9 Share your answers to the Take-Home Exercise: Reflecting on Module 11 with a colleague and the whole group as directed. Record any new and good ideas on the lines that follow. Exercise 1: Facilitating Learning Facilitating learning involves many skills, including listening and speaking, giving directions, questioning, observing and monitoring, encouraging, and intervening. Teachers must learn these skills. Learners must also develop these skills, since they too are working with others. Click here to read about skills for facilitating learning. Listening and Speaking Giving Directions Observing and Monitoring Questioning Step 1 What are some other effective questioning strategies? As answers are shared, record good ideas. Step 2 Work with a partner. Identify two or three effective questions that appear in the content from an earlier module. Write the questions, where they are found, and why they are effective. Step 3 Search for a question from an earlier module that you think could be improved. Write the question, where it is found, and why you think it could be improved. Step 4 Now rewrite the question to make it more effective. Step 5 How has your change made the question more effective? As part of good questioning skills, teachers provide think time or wait time. Think time (or wait time) is the time between a teacher's question and a learner's response. It is also the time between a learner's response and the teacher's or next learner's response. Research indicates that most teachers provide only one second of think time when at least three to five seconds are preferred. The benefits of allowing for think time include increased levels of: Responses from a greater number of learners Listening among learners Accurate and confident responses Next: Proceed to Exercise 2