Teachers’ Professional Development

Autor: Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Michele Notari, Rebecca Reynolds, NJ Tavares, Celina Wing Yi Lee
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: 21st Century Skills Development Through Inquiry-Based Learning ISBN: 9789811024795
Popis: In the previous chapters, we have identified the sets of twenty-first century skills that are essential to learners’ education, and discussed how their development of such skills can be scaffolded by applying various strategies, using examples from Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United States. Chapter 6 marks the beginning of the third section of the book. This section takes readers’ understanding of teaching twenty-first century skills further beyond theory. It aims to guide education professionals along the process of actualizing twenty-first century skills education in a three-step process, starting with the teacher’s own acquisition of relevant skills as discussed in this chapter, followed by development of learners’ twenty-first century skills using suitable pedagogy advocated in Chap. 7, and finally the assessment of learner performance for evaluation and improvement in Chap. 8. Chapter 6 focuses on the first step toward achieving this goal—to equip teachers, mainly those currently in service, with the ability to accomplish the mission of developing students’ twenty-first century skills.
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