21st century skills

1.)What are the 21st century skills that you need to develop? How are you going to develop these skills?

- The 21st century skills that I need to develop are the communication and collaboration, information literacy, ICT literacy and the social and cross cultural skills. I need to develop my communication and collaborative skills for it is one of my weakness, in communicating to the others most specially in a group of people and I need to build up more of my self confidence and erase the negative thoughts that leads into consciousness. For me, in order to develop this skill I should practice communicating or speaking in front of a crowd to gain more confidence and to enhance my diction as well as my grammar. Next is the information literacy, I need to develop this skill because I'm not that updated on the happenings in my surroundings and I think in order to develop this skill I must read and gather more information that is related and that I can use to my daily situations, reading news, updates, and doing a research must be highly practice in developing this skill. Then the ICT (Information, Communication and Technology) literacy, I can say that I need to develop more of this skill because I'm not really knowledgeable enough in technologies, I mean I know how to properly use some but not all. In order to develop this skill I think I must gather more information that will help me in widening this skill like doing a research on the new technologies that are highly used nowadays. And lastly the social and cross-cultural skill. I'm not the type of person who knows well on how to socialize to the other people specially people with a different culture and beliefs from me. I think I can develop this skill through approaching others, asking them about themselves like their culture and beliefs,and sharing thoughts and ideas with them so that I'll know how to deal with them properly.

2.) As a future teacher, how are you going to develop these 21st century skills on your students?

- For communication and collaborative skill, I will make some group activities that will need the participation and cooperation of each member, and also I will let them share their thoughts and ideas to the class to build up their self confidence.

- For information literacy, , I will ask the students to do a research of some topics that I'll give to them and give them a reading assignment as a preparation for some upcoming activities.

- For the ICT (Information, Communication, Technology) literacy, I will my students use technologies in some presentation in the class like for example in reporting, I will let them use laptops, projectors and other learning materials that will help them more in the learning process. I won't let them be ignorant on the new technologies nowadays in fact I will use it to widen their knowledge in using and choosing the appropriate tools in learning.

- For the social and cross- cultural skill, again I will make some group activities that will be formed by a diverse type of students. I'll make them speak in front of the class and share about themselves in culture, beliefs, religion and etc. Tell them to accept individual differences and acknowledge to participate more n class.

- For creativity and innovation, I'll give them activities that will enhance their creative way of thinking and accept new ideas that will come from them. Like in letting them create a poem, story and even a song.

- For critical thinking and problem solving skill, I will let give a problem or a situation that needs to be solve and allow them to share their knowledge on how solve the given task.