INTRO

Good afternoon everyone. First of all I would like to thank you for joining us this webinar and
we assure you to gain new insights through this webinar we are conducting. Together with Miss
Alek and Miss Darell, our aim is to enlighten and provide you deeper understanding about the
topic " Professionalism and Transformative Education." So without further a do, let us start.

As quoted by John Dewey “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterdays, we rob them of
tomorrow.” It is because yesterday’s education is no longer effective for tomorrow’s students. In
view of this, the role of a teacher must change in order to adapts to the needs of today’s culture.

To remain relevant and interesting, the teacher must possess 21 st century skills that can be
categorized into four, namely:

1. Effective Communication Skills

2. Learning and Innovation Skills
3. Life and Career Skills
4. Information, Media and Technology Skills

Effective Communication Skills

Why is it important to have effective communication skills learning? Communication skills can
help us to navigate through life more efficiently and strengthen our connections with others.
Having poor communication skills making our life much more difficult.

Teaming

 The first is Teaming. So what is teaming? Teaming is the activity of working as a team.
Members of a team within an organization bring their individual experience and
accomplishments to the team. A team working toward a common goal typically benefits
from greater efficiency because each team member is able to concentrate on his particular
expertise while experiencing the support of the group. Teaming is also is an alternative to
 more traditional ways of organizing school’s academic program. With teaming, It may be
logistically easier for a group of teachers to schedule regular meetings and discuss
important matters. Intended in attaining desirable outcomes within the educational
institution.

Collaboration

 Collaboration is the process of working together to achieve a common goal. In teaching,

the common goal is always improved learner outcomes. Teacher collaboration occurs
when members of a learning community work together to increase student learning and
achievement. It also demonstrate the ability to work effectively and respectfully with
diverse teams.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

The quality of a teacher's lecture or teaching methods will be enhanced by the quality of their
interpersonal skills. Teachers need to possess a number of skills in the teaching profession and
include communication, empathy, positive motivation, effective and positive body language and
humor.

Teachers have to communicate with students at the students own level of understanding. That
can be difficult if each student has a different level of learning and understanding.

Empathy is the ability of the teacher to express care and concern for a student. Placing yourself
in the position of the student and viewing the problem from their point of view will allow you to
develop an understanding of the problem and help to find a solution.

Positive motivation in education typically produces positive learning. Not all students are on
board with all subjects and sometimes it takes demonstrating applications of the less liked
subjects in areas that interest students. That will provide the motivation the student needs to
study that subject.
Humor is the one area of skills that allow a teacher to keep the motivational train rolling along.
Well placed and appropriate humor will provide additional motivation and the desire to learn.
Maintaining the student's attention is critical to the learning process and humor will help keep
that attention.

Local National and Global Orientedness

 It expands the local orientedness of a learner to national and global concerns. It enables
learners to relate local, national and global events and concerns and builds patterns of
interconnectedness which help them make sense of their own lives and the world.

(Question 1: How would you describe good/effective communication?)

LEARNING AND INNOVATING SKILLS

CREATIVITY

 Teaching is through and through, a creative profession. Teachers who can model creative
ways of thinking, playfully engage with content, and express their ideas, will beget
creative students.

CURIOSITY

 Curiosity prepares the brain for learning. While it might ne no big surprise that we’re
more likely to remember what we’ve learned when the subject matter intrigues us, it turns
out that curiosity also helps us learn information we don’t consider all that interesting or
important.

CRITICAL THINKING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

 Critical thinking the “art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving
it.” True critical thinkers take measured steps when considering any important issues.
They asked questions and gather information, then form and test their conclusions. They
are self-disciplined, self-monitored and self-corrective; adhere to a high standard of
excellence; and keep an open mind.
RISK TAKING

 Risk- taking is a part of the successful formula. Students need to see teachers try new
things in the classroom and they will watch closely how they handle failure in their risk-
taking.

(Question 2: We’ve identified four skills that foster an innovation environment. What are
these skills?)

LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS

FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTABILITY

● Just as general life is full of changing, new, and uncertain situations, so are our working
lives and especially the working lives of teachers. Teachers regularly encounter a diverse
range of learners to whom they must respond appropriately, face unexpected situations in
the classroom or shifts in timetabling that they need to navigate, interact with new
colleagues, students, and parents and integrate new and changing knowledge from
professional learning into their teaching practices.

LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY

● Leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve

improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and
professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and
using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

SOCIAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL SKILLS

● Cross-cultural skills or competence refers to your ability to understand people from

different cultures and engage with them effectively. And not just people from the one
 culture that you’ve studied for years. Having cross-cultural competence means you can
be effective in your interactions with people from most any culture.

INITIATIVE AND SELF-DIRECTION

● Initiative and self-direction are critical to developing independence and decision making
skills. As educators, we need to acknowledge and encourage children to follow their
interests in order to support this learning. It is important to take advantage of teachable
moments that occur every day. Children need to be given time to explore and discover,
rather than be seated and “talked at.“ With adult support, their self-confidence will
flourish, and they will be prepared to initiate exploration, attempt new experiences, and
engage with objects and other people.

PRODUCTIVITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

● Teachers productivity could be described as the duties performed by a teacher at a

particular period in the school system in achieving desired goal, It could also be
described as the ability of teachers to combine relevant inputs for the enhancement of
teaching and learning processes. The Accountability towards Profession. A teacher
should think of various ways and means to help the students to acquire the knowledge, to
develop academic potential and to sharpen their future through the process of teaching-
learning.

ETHICAL, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES

● So as a teacher it is their ability to be reflective about their own beliefs, religious or

otherwise, that informs their perspective on life and their interest in and respect for
different people’s faith, feelings and values, sense of enjoyment and fascination in
learning about themselves, others and the world around them.

(Question 3: How important for a teacher to be flexible inside a classroom or school?)

 Info, Media and Technology Skills

Visual and Information Literacy

 Visual Literacy and Information Literacy. The Visual Literacy Standards were developed
in the context of the Information Competency Standards for Higher Education, and are
intended to complement the Information Literacy Standards. The Visual Literacy
Standards address some of the unique issues presented by visual materials. Images often
function as information, but they are also aesthetic and creative objects that require
additional levels of interpretation and analysis.

Media Literacy

 Educators and can teach children to be critical thinkers, to analyze, inquire, and
determine if the information shared on social media is true or not. A person who is media
literate is curious, inquisitive and skeptical and ask questions about everything. Media
literate people around the world understand that media influences beliefs and behaviors.
The advantage of practicing media literacy is that it expands the concept of literacy,
reading and writing to all forms of media.

Basic, Scientific, Economic and Technological Literacies

 So Scientific literacy is important in our modern society since they are many issues
related to science and technology. Basic science process skills include observing,
classifying, measuring and using numbers, making inferences, predicting,
communicating, and using relations of space and time.

Multicultural Literacy

 Multicultural perspective should prepare teachers to critically reflect on the power and
privileges of dominant culture, their own place within these systems, and to deconstruct
them to create social equality through teaching practice.

(Question 4: How does technology contributed to the 21st century education?)

 THE FIRST 3 CATEGORIES OF LIFE SKILLS ARE SELF-EXPLANATORY

Visual Literacy- is the ability to interpret, make meaning from information presented in the
form of an image. It is also the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual
representations.

Information Literacy- is the ability to identify what information is needed, identify the best
source is information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and
share that information. Information Literacy is most essential in the conduct of research.

Media Literacy- is the ability to critically analyze the messages that inform, entertain and sell to
us ever day. It’s the ability to bring critical thinking skills to bear on all forms of media asking
pertinent questions about what’s there and noticing what’s not there.

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