Supportin

g School
Reform in
Algeria
Relationship Between 21st
Century Skills and Other
Strands
Prepared and
presented by:
Ms. Assia Bouchair Mr. Miliani Mohamed
 21st Century Skills

How do you think students need to be in the 21st

Century?
What kind of skills and abilities do they need to
acquire?
 0
02
1
Conventionally and
digitally literate.
Independently working

03
Teamworkers
04
Problem solvers and
creative
 “The illetrate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read
and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn.”

—Alvin Toffler,
writer,
businessman
and futurist
20th Century Classroom 21st Century Classroom

•Students work in isolation *Students work collaboratively

•The teacher is the” sage in the stage” * The teacher is the guide on the side

• Students are passive learners * Students are active learners

• Students focus on learning facts * Students focus on discovering facts

•The emphasis is on remembering facts * The emphasis is on analysing facts

• and applying them and using them to create something new
 21st Century Skills

Critical Thinking / Communication /

Problem solving Collaboration

Digital Literacy

Creativity Citizenship
Puzzle: There are 4 persons (A, B, C and D)
who want to cross a bridge in night.
A- takes 1 minute to cross the bridge.
B- takes 2 minutes to cross the bridge.
C- takes 5 minutes to cross the bridge.
D- takes 8 minutes to cross the bridge.
● There is only one torch with them and
the bridge cannot be crossed without the
torch. There cannot be more than two
persons on the bridge at any time, and
when two people cross the bridge
together, they must move at the slower
person’s pace.
● Can they all cross the bridge in 15
minutes?
Solution: They must cross the
bridge in the following way:
Step 1: A and B cross the bridge. A
comes back. Time taken 3 minutes.
Now B is on the other side.

Step 2: C and D cross the bridge. B

comes back. Time taken 8 + 2 = 10
minutes. Now C and D are on the
other side.

Step 3: A and B cross the bridge.

Time taken is 2 minutes. All are on
the other side.

Total time spent: 3 + 10 + 2 = 15

minutes.
1-Critcal Thinking
Consider perspectives Evaluate evidence

Look for deep

Solve non-routine structures
problems
How is Bloom’s taxonomy included in
classroom?
Examples of critical thinking activities in
classroom:
● Using Pictures: making guessings and decisions.

● Listen and repeat,act and say.

● Reading passages/ stories/ comprehension

● Pair work to solve problems arising from their understanding of any text.

● Rank things by size, preference, speed, cost, etc..

● Use puzzles and games.

● Matching/ identifying opinions.

● Think about a story’s message/ moral value.

● Relate a text to your own experience.

 2- Collaboration:
01 02 03 04
Work in diverse Learning from and Assuming shared
international teams contributing to the Co-operating, leading,
responsibility delegating and compromising
learning of others
to produce new and innovative
ideas.
Examples of collaborative activities in
classroom:
*Pair work: Think- Pair-Share ( Causes and
consequences)
-Learners look at the pictures individually,
they spot the differences and discuss them
with their partners:
-Student A look at picture A and student B
look at picture B.

*Group work: Teacher hangs various pictures

about the environment on the classroom
walls, learners gather in groups around one
picture. They discuss the content and come
up with a general idea in a sentence.

*Team work: learners race one by one to find

the differences of each picture and they go
back to form its idea in a sentence.
 Other classroom activities:
-Classroom trips through videos: ( about a civilization, a scientific experiment, an invention, a
short movie, a documentary about endangered species or forests or lakes).

-Assigning projects in relation to their unit of study, dividing work and the members roles
equally.

-Unit review: learners write a story or an article about the content of the unit, they review the
vocabulary as well as the language points to be reinvested in a situation based activity.

-Drama and role plays.

- Competitive games.

-Interviews and surveys

3- Communication:

Non Oral Written

verbal communic communic
communic ation ation
ation
Let’s have a
quiz!
The importance of
communication:
Share information, express Listen effectively to others
thoughts and opinions

Use verbal, written and Analyze, process and

multimedia messages synthesize different
information sources.

Accomodate various learning styles and meet the needs of a

multicultural digital age.
Examples of communicative activities in
classroom:
-Pair work: Vocabulary explorer worksheets:
•Learners are provided with multiple ethical or
unethical acts. They match each act to its
definition provided. They discuss and negotiate
their meanings in context.

•Group work: Game: What or who am I?

Learners take turns to read the discriptions or
definitions and they try to guess what or who is
it with the help of pictures as clues or prompts.

•Information gap: filling charts, diagrams or

tables: Learners listen to video sequences or
audio clips. They do the task then they discuss
their findings.

•Listening with a purpose in mind: Learners

listen to audio or video instances either for the
gist or specific information related to the main
idea.
Other examples of activities:
-Roleplay activities.

-Interviews and surveys.

-Writing notes,letters, texts to each other or with

specific destinations.

-Contextualised project topics.

-Online discussions( private class groups,

pages, blogposts).

-Rank and order. ( They reorder ideas,

paragraphs, pictures,…)
How to create communicative
activities?
It’s time for another quiz!
Here it is!
 4- Creativity:
Creative thinking and imagination are the core skills you
exercise when you do things in a way that is:

Original

Imaginative

Purposeful

Valuable
Some characteristics of
creativity:
1. Questioning and challenging.

2. Thinking outside the box.

3. Making connections and seeing

relationships.

4. Envisaging what might be.

5. Exploring ideas and keeping options

open.

6. Reflecting critically on ideas, actions and

outcomes.
 Three more ingredients for
creativity:
*Persistence: ( sticking with
difficulty- daring to be
different- tolerating
uncertainty).

• Collaboration: ( sharing the

product- giving and sharing
feedback- co-operating
appropriately).

• Problem solving.
How does teacher instruction influence
creative learning?

• Very precise instructions T=> ss

• More general instructions T => ss
• Hardly any instruction (T) => Ss
 Teacher
teaching
creatively?

Learner
developing their
own creativity?
Creativity
 Examples of creative activities in classroom:
• Individual work: Picture story
-Learners think of creating a story out of the flashcards or pictures on the
content of the unit of study.
-Individual work: Grammar: quantifiers: some and any
- Learners create independently 5 sentences about themselves using
“some, any”; 3 are true and 2 are false. They act them out to the
classroom in a challenging manner.
- Pair work: Grammar: Dialogue reinvesting if conditional:
Learners think of explaining the different states of matter in nature using
conditional type (0) and (1).
Project work: Learners create a video about themselves in regards to the
unit of study, they voice it over and later present and explain its
content.
 Citizenship

National and global citizenship

 Citizenship
What is needed for people to be effective and responsible participants in
that world and in education?

 Knowledge Knowledge about

 Values

 Skills

Skills
Values Citizenship
for
through education
 Citizenship

Collectivism and Individualism

Identifying the important cultural characteristics

of individualism and collectivism in yourself.
 Digital Literacy
Digital literacy: is using technology as a tool to reinforce, extend and
deepen learning through international collaboration. Enabling the student
to discover, master and communicate knowledge and information in a
globalised economy.

However, digital literacy doesn’t equal IT proficiency solely; it requires

critical thinking skills, an awareness of the essential expected behaviours
in online environments and the shared social issues. Alternatively,

“digital literacy= digital tool knowledge+ critical thinking+ social

engagement”
 Examples on how to implement digital
literacy in classroom:
• Teach students about online safety.

• Introduce students to fake news.

• Think critically about body image.

• Share emotions and vocalise them.

• Encourage students to think ethically.

• Challenge covert advertising.