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Shaping Learning Together
Resources for the International Primary Classroom
21st Century Skills, The 4 Cs
and more …
T
hese are exciting times for
education and nowhere has
there been such a remarkable
transformation than in the
primary classroom itself. The role of
teacher has become so much more
multi-faceted than ever before. It is
also a much more demanding one as
schools seek to constantly update their
skills base and improve the quality of
both human and material resources.
Complete suite
Publishing is going through a similar
transition period in order to satisfy
these demands, and Oxford University
Press (OUP) is at the forefront of
this transformation by providing
educational solutions as well as
publishing high quality print and
digital media. OUP offers a complete
suite of enquiry-based learning
materials that are accompanied by
professional development training
to help teachers maximize outcomes
while providing a judicious balance of
the fun and fundamentals of learning
in their classrooms.
and the learning that takes place in
each and every class. Worth noting
here is the increasing importance of
transparency in outcomes. Teachers
must not only apply standardized
testing procedures but also engage
learners with stimulating input tasks
and activities that inform portfolio
assessments and project work.
Meanwhile, learner attention spans
are at their lowest in recorded history
as children become masters in using
hand-held tablet devices to navigate
meaning at increasingly early ages.
Resources
Learner engagement
“To thrive in a rapidly evolving,
technology-mediated
world, students must not
only possess strong skills in
areas such as language arts,
mathematics and science, but
they must also be adept at
skills such as critical thinking,
problem-solving, persistence,
collaboration and curiosity.”
Schools inspectorates around the
world, including KHDA and ADVETI
here in the UAE, are applying more
rigorous evaluation criteria to teaching
New Vision for Education
Unlocking the Potential for Technology
World Economic Forum, 2015
22 | Jan - Feb 2016 |
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How can teachers prepare learners
for the demands of the world they
are living in? First of all they can throw
the lesson plan out of the window.
We all work to schedules and plans
but what about effectively nurturing
young people? What is it that teachers
want to achieve in the following 45
minutes? The main thing is to engage
them and get them discovering and
exploring. To introduce a new math
or science concept, teachers need
to ask questions, allow the learners
to formulate their own ideas and the
let them explore those ideas. The
bigger the input “bang” use