Characteristics of 21st Century

Language Teachers
Sources: Willy A Renandya
Embrace Change is Hard but
Change NECESSARY!!!
 ARE
YOU???
1. Professionally Competent
2. Reflective
Are you?
3. Student-Centered
4. Digitally Savvy
5. Continous Learner
6. Gritty
1. Do we have the knowledge of the language
that we are teaching?
2. Do we have the skills to reach out and
engage our students during the learning
process in and out the classroom?
3. Do we have the right values as a language
teacher?
 1. Integrity
2. Professionalism
Values 3. Collegiality
4. Valuing Difersity
5. Embracing change
 Language and
Culture Content

1. Professionally
Competent
Language Teacher Pedagogy Context
Language and Culture
Fluent Speaker
Target Level: C1
At Least: B2
The reality? Many of the
english language teachers are
NOT there yet.
Language and
Culture

1. Socio-culturally Competent
2. Intelligible & Acceptable
 Professionally
Deep Competent
Knowledge of these...
CONTENT

Pronunciation Words Grammar

Reading Listening Writing Speaking

 ProfessionallyDeep
Competent
Knowledge of these...
PEDAGOGY

Pronunciation Words Grammar

Reading Listening Writing Speaking

 1. Socio-cultural context of English Language
CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE Teaching (ELT)
2. School Curriculum & Culture
3. Learning Resources in & out of classroom
  Experience is important
No. 2 Reflective  What you do with is even more important!!!
Teachers
Learning is a continouing process of
constructing, deconstructing, and
reconstructing experience (John Dewey)
 Look Back Move Forward

Reflective
Teacher
Alone/ With
Tools (Diary)
Others
  We the teachers are no longer the source of knowledge for our
students
 The schools, the library are no longer the only place where students
can get knowledge and information
 Today is the internet. The internet has store of knowledge that can
be accessed 24 hour a day.
 We as the teachers as a 21st century teachers have to make use of

No. 3 Student- that wealth of knowledge and information and we need to teach our
students to do that
centered  That is possible when we stop spending our time lecturing in the

Teacher classroom
 We have to learn how to reduce the amount of teaching so students
get a lot of opportunities to explore, spend time, looking at, finding,
identifying, screening from the internet, Google.
 If the students can find the information on Google, there is no point
for you to teach it but there are other skills that you have to teach to
your students, the skill of managing information, identifying,
selecting, evaluating information. Thats what we have to teach but
not the knowledge itself.
 Student centered teaching is closely associated with the
idea that it is the students do the learning. The teachers
do the teaching.
 That’s why we need to engage the students so well that
they get the opportunity to learn more in the classroom
under our guidance, and supervision (Learner
Engagement)
 Students’ Holistic Needs

Students- Affective Cognitive

centered
Teacher Kinesthetic Social
 Students’ Holistic Needs

FEEL THINK DO
1. Curious 1. Connect 1. Discuss
2. Thrilled 2. Explore 2. Debate
3. Safe 3. Extend 3. Create

Social Needs
Learning with & from peers
Students-
centered
Teacher
 Communication &
Ed-Tech Tools
Collaboration

No. 4 Digitally
Literate Curating Information Managing Information
1. As 21st century teachers you have to simply use some of them
but you need to be carefully choosing tools that are easy to
use, and tools that are support your teaching.
2. Teachnology does not improve teaching and learning. It is the
way we use technology that can improve students’ learning in
the classroom
3. We have to use technology. Because our students are users of
technology so they will not become too happy if you teach
them without technology
4. Being digitally literated means you need to know different
ways, different convensions different culture of
communicating using many tools and media that are available
 Curating Information Managing Information
New Literacy
Skills on digital 1. Finding 1. Prioritizing

literacy 2. Selecting 2. Strogae

3. Evaluating 3. Retrieval
 Life-long learner is good for your heatlh, wealth, and also
5. Life-long your personal, social and professional development.
Learner Life-long learning is basically learning forever.
 Life-long Life-deep

Learning Never
Stops!
Life-wide Life-wise
Life-long
Learner
No.6 Gritty
Teacher
Gritty Teacher
Gritty Teacher
THANK YOU...