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A Guide for EFL Teachers in Moldova
Daniela Munca, PhDAPLE 2011
LEARNING FOR THE 21st CENTURY
What do Moldovan consumers appreciate more?
1. "APPRECIATION OF THE CONSUMERS“ 2010
2. Patrimony of the Republic
3. "DEBUT OF THE YEAR“
4. "REPUTATION AND TRUST“
5. "REBRANDING"
1. "APPRECIATION OF THE CONSUMERS“ 2010
2. Patrimony of the Republic
3. "DEBUT OF THE YEAR“
4. "REPUTATION AND TRUST“
5. "REBRANDING"
How to promote Zorile ?
How do you evaluate the following advertising campaigns?
• Compania Zorile lansează pentru tine un concurs neobişnuit! Tot ce trebuie să faci, e să trimiţi la adresa electronică[email protected] o fotografie cît mai interesantă cu încălţăminte.
What will do the Moldavian people if they get 500,000
EURO over night?
Introduction
Introduction to the 21st century skills concept
Why are 21st century skills important for EFL teachers in Moldova?
What teaching methods can be used to adjust Moldovan curricula to the 21st century teaching and learning?
Introduction Introduction to the to the
2121stst century skills century skills concept concept
What skills do our students need to master in the 21st
century?
Which of these skills can you teach in school?
The average amount of information that is retained through that particular learning
method• Lecture = 5%
• Reading = 10%• Audiovisual = 20%
• Demonstration = 30%• Discussion Group = 50%• Practice by doing = 75%
• Teach others / immediate use of learning = 90%
Which skills are the most difficult to teach? Why?
An initiative of the US. Department of Education
to create an overall vision of how 21st century skills can be incorporated into
K-12 and higher education.
The Framework for 21st Century Learning describes the skills, knowledge and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life.
21st Century Skills Framework
What are What are 2121stst century century
skills?skills?
21st Century Skills Framework
Learning & Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Creativity & Innovation
• Communication & Collaboration
21st Century Skills Framework
Information, Media &Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT (Information, Communications & Technology) Literacy
21st Century Skills Framework
Life & Career Skills
• Flexibility & Adaptability
• Initiative & Self-Direction
• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity & Accountability
• Leadership & Responsibility
21st Century Skills Framework
Core Subjects•Economics•English•Government•Arts•History•Geography•Reading or Language•Arts•Mathematics•Science•World Languages•Civics
21st Century Themes•Global Awareness•Financial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurship Literacy•Civic Literacy•Health Literacy•Environmental Literacy
Why are Why are 2121stst century century
skills skills important for important for
Moldovan Moldovan students?students?
Why are 21st century skills important?
Today’s education faces irrelevance unless we bridge the gap between how students
live and how students learn.
- Moldovan curricula tends to be too academic- The teaching materials and methodology are not updated on a regular basis - There is no specific centralized model for University professors to implement in their practices
Workforce
Why are 21st century skills important?
“The average person will change jobs nine times by the time he or she is 32.”
Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
The four “C”s: are a student’s ticket up the economic ladder in the 21st century
Critical thinking and problem solving
Communication Collaboration
Creativity and innovation
learning skills
Information andCommunication Skills
•Communication Skills
•Information and Media Literacy Skills
Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills
• Problem Identification, Formulation and Solution
•Creativity and Intellectual Curiosity
•Critical Thinking and Systems Thinking
Interpersonal and Self-Direction Skills
•Self-Direction
•Accountability and Adaptability
•Social Responsibility
•Interpersonal and Collaboration
21st century tools
core subjects
21st century context
21st century content
assessment
Element 2: learning skills
21st century tools
Information and Communication
Technologies, such as Computers,
Networking and other Technologies
Audio, Video, and Other Media and Multimedia Tools
learning skills
core subjects
21st century context
21st century content
assessment
Element 3: 21ST century tools
Emphasize 21Emphasize 21stst Century Content Century Content
Global Awareness
•Use 21st century skills to understand and address global issues
•Collaboration with other cultures and languages
Financial, Economic and Business Literacy
•Understanding the role of the economy all the way down to personal financial choices.
•Ability to adapt with the nation’s economic environment using 21st century skills
Civic Literacy
•Knowing how to be an informed and participatory citizen.
•Using 21st century skills to responsibly exercise rights and responsibilities at local, state, national and global levels.
21st century tools
learning skills
core subjects
21st century context
assessment
Element 4: 21st century content
Emphasize 21Emphasize 21stst Century Context Century Context
Make content relevant to students lives
Take the students out to the world
Bring the world into the classroom
Creating opportunities for students to interact with each other, with teachers and with other knowledgeable adults in authentic learning experiences
21st century tools
learning skills
core subjects
21st century content
assessment
Element 5: 21st century context
5 Teaching Tools 5 Teaching Tools for Moldovan EFL for Moldovan EFL
Teachers Teachers
Tool 1 : Use Real Examples: Study Cases
Magenta Consulting
• What kind of dreams the Moldavians have: colored or black- and- white?
• Find out what will do the Moldavian people if they get 500,000 EURO over night .
• Find out who are the happiest employers from urban area
• The top of the most preferred topics by Moldavians in mass media
• unique, powerful and immediate resource for teachers and students of Business Studies
• constructed around a key element of the business studies curriculum.
• uses real information from the sponsoring companies
• helps students engage and learn
• lesson plans and worksheets
• Learning PowerPoint summaries of the studies
• MP3 podcasts of the studies
• quizzes, crosswords and word searches to make learning fun
The Times 100 is useful because:
• It is produced by and with teachers to ensure it is focused on the Business Studies curriculum
• the companies who take part understand the value to students of real examples of business practice
• the material is presented in different formats designed to enable all students to make best use of the material - from the printed page, to pdf downloads, to the new MP3 podcasts.
For students
• revision quizzes,
• topical news alerts based on companies making business headlines,
• background information on the companies who are participating,
• and a glossary of business terms.
WebQuest is …
• an inquiry-oriented lesson format
• most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web
• a simple word processing document that includes links to websites
Guess the Company / Service / Product
1. “11 ani construim fericirea”
2. “Acum si in Moldova”
3. «Wine. Culture and Leisure Resort»
4. “Tot ce-I sic in Chisinau”
5. “Placerea nu are cuvinte”
6. “E natural ca-ti place!”
7. „Te face gospodar!”
8. “In armonie cu natura – Cu dragoste …”
Tool 3 : Create Real World Tasks
IONEL marketing campaign task
Tool 4 : Invite Experts from local or international
companies
Tool 5 : Participate in International Projects
Business for Youth
Tool 6 : Be Active on Facebook
21st Century Skills for Moldovan Universities
Daniela Munca
