Teaching And Learning During The 21st Century - 1733 Words

Teaching and learning in the 21st century has changed dramatically from a traditional education. There has been a major paradigm shift to effectively support and prepare students for current and future work, social and school expectations. 19th century traditional education was designed to develop industry based workers that required basic skills and performed menial tasks. However, students need new skills and capabilities to ensure their success in the global market. Teachers roles have also been redefined to guide students and the skills teachers now need are more complex than ever before. The effects of globalisation and the shrinking world highlights shortcomings and also creates new ones, this has also began a wave of change to†¦show more content†¦Prensky (2001) states, students today are no longer the people our schools were designed to teach. Fundamentally, students today process and learn differently. Reforming education from a constructivist view such as Vygotskyà ¢â‚¬â„¢s Theory of Development (1978) which centres children at the heart of education and holistically views each child as capable through the introduction of personalised learning and outcome orientated. Children learn best through doing, discovery and collaboration. Teacher’s roles have also changed to guide students learning rather than direct instruction focusing on the process of learning rather than the correct answers from rote memorisation. Butt (2014) states that teachers and schools are no longer the primary source of information. However, 21st century teaching and learning is best described as an emerging cluster of new ideas, beliefs, theories and ideas, some of which are used in schools today and others yet to be implemented. Moving sharply from the one size fits all model to personalised learning. (Bolstad et al, 2012) Robinson (2010) stated that, previously the role of schools was to prepare students for industry based work in production and hands on work and that has changed dramatically where companies seek employees that possess intellectual skills. In order to adequately prepare students for future job