21ST CENTURY SKILLS: AROUSE SHARP-WITTED SKILLS

Edison E. Tayag

In today’s education, delivering quality and relevant learning experiences become challenging for teachers. Together with the implementation of the new curriculum, it becomes harder or complicated for the teachers as well as for the students because the said curriculum is a “Leaners-Centered Learning”. Teachers are considered as forever students, they are the paragon of development and the catalyzer of learning for the students. The new implemented curriculum helps them to be globally competitive. Also, the new curriculum focused on the students performances, so as a result, the students become more skilled and well developed. The implementation of the curriculum helps the most in achieving well sharpened minds and skilled bodies of the students and those students are the 21st century learners.

To help attain, enhance and empower the skills of the 21st century learners especially in cooking and baking, actual cooking and baking are just some of the learning experiences they can experience and the school can provide to help students as they move forward and gear towards the realization of becoming responsible, highly competent, business minded, and caring global learners that could shape the future of the world.

Attaining 21st century teaching traits are just some of the teaching-learning experiences, every teacher should realize as he/she moves forward and gear towards the realization of becoming a teacher with globally recognized competence, skills, and habits that contribute in shaping education.

If the learners are being taught the way they should be, optimum learning can happen. The 21st century skills are beyond just entotic learning, it transcends to the traditional modalities of learning for it is dynamic, complex, and progressive in making them truly globally competitive and responsive in the times of need.

At the moment, writer personally believes that today ‘s education is beyond just mere grasping of information but most specially transforming and applying such data into meaningful real-life experiences. It is only through practical applications of the things, students and teachers are learning that can be a true meaningful teaching and learning process.