TM-21st

Becoming a 21st century teacher requires several steps:

 1. You must have an understanding and belief that 21st century learning is valuable and your responsibility. Many teachers feel that our traditional educational system "was good enough for me, so it's good enough for them."

 2. You must have an understanding of the authentic nature of teaching (framing your teaching within a real-world context), interdisciplinary instruction (the natural intertwining of all contents), and project-based instruction with student products being collaberative, authentic, and technology-driven.

 3. You must have an understanding and dedication to framing your units of instruction around the development of 21st century tools of learning. Let's take a look at this short video:

media type="custom" key="11936058" From the [|Journey North] project

 From the Journey North website: //"Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children. The general public is welcome to participate." //