CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TEACHER, STUDENT AND THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT OF
YESTERYEAR’S AND THE 21st CENTURY.
TEACHERS OF THE EARLY GENERATION VS. TEACHERS OF THE
21st CENTURY
TEACHER’S OF YESTERYEARS
 Distant- students must have a
distance to his/her teacher as a sign
of respect.
 Disseminate information through
Lectures.
 Require students to memorize
contents from textbooks.
 Make use of textbooks as their
references.
 Give assessment through written
examinations. They use pen and
paper for evaluating his/her
students.
 Focus on their responsibility and
relationship with the students as
recipient of knowledge.
 Followers of policies prescribed by
the school.
 Use lecture as teaching method.
 Deliver the same lessons every year.
 Too focused on self-achievement.
 Target to finish the lesson within
the period.
 Autocratic in which teachers are in
control of everything in all events of
the classroom.
 Holder of knowledge/Gatekeeper of
Information
TEACHER OF THE 21st CENTURY
 Democratic- teachers are not so
strict and they practice freedom.
 Allow students to solve real-world
problems.
 Allow students construct their own
understanding of the subject
matter.
 Make use of manipulative
materials; makes use of multitude
of prints and electronic sources.
 Give performance-based
assessments (Performance tasks).
Teachers are focused more on
students tasks.
 Widen their responsibility and their
relationship with colleagues,
community, and other stakeholders.
 Participate in the decision making in
schools.
 Use a variety of teaching methods
appropriate in the students
learning.
 Spend time in researching to update
his/her knowledge of the subject
matter.
 Mentor new teachers.
 Target the learners to be ready in
the challenges of today’s learning.
 Democratic in which teachers allow
students to take responsibility in
their learning.
 Facilitator of learning.
 Technology Illiterate.  Technology or digital literate.

STUDENTS OF THE EARLY GENERATION VS. STUDENTS OF THE

21st CENTURY
STUDENT’S OF YESTERYEARS STUDENT'S OF THE 21st CENTURY

 Receiver of facts and information.  Active creator of knowledge. They

They only listen to his/her teacher. are creative on doing something.
 Learning is based on repetition.  Internet users to access a vast of
information.
 Textbook users.  Interactive knowledge constructor.

 Passive recipients of information.  Actively engaged in class activities.

 Competitive learners. They are grade  Collaborative Learners. They learn

conscious. through interactive learning.
 Factual Thinkers. They are focused  Reflective, Critical and Creative
on truth. Thinkers.
 Unilateral Thinkers.  Divergent Thinkers.

 Inactive Process of Learning.  Dynamic Process of Learning.

 Dependent Learners.  Self-managing Learners.

 Single Taskers. They are the one who  Multitaskers. They are lot of things
done their activities alone. to accomplish their tasks.
  Single Sensory Input Provider.
INSTRUCTION IN THE EARLY GENERATION VS. INSTRUCTION IN
THE 21st CENTURY
TRADITIONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
 Teacher-centered instruction.
 Single-season stimulation.
 Single-party progression.
 Single medium.
 Isolated work.
 Information delivery.
 Passive Learning.
 Factual, knowledge-based learning.
 Reactive response.
 Isolated, artificial context.
 Multisensory Input Provider.
NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
 Student-centered learning.
 Multisensory stimulation.
 Multipath progression.
 Multimedia.
 Collaborative work.
 Information exchange.
 Active/exploratory/inquiry-based
learning.
 Critical thinking and informed
decision making.
 Proactive/planned action.
 Authentic real-world context.