21st century teacher

21st century teaching and learning:What teachers do?LEARNINGAND TEACHINGCASESTUDIESPlanning andadministrationCAsestudies21st century teachers ensureteaching is enhanced throughthe informed use of technologydeveloping learners’ ICTcapability.21st century teachers use ICT to:• deliver greater flexibility andchoice of lessons andteaching techniques• communicate information andconcepts clearly with highquality lessons and resources• make learning exciting andengaging for all learners• provide adaptive solutions forlearners with special needs• create a learning environmentwhere learners feel safe andsecure• extend learning and work inpartnership with parents,families and the community.Dan Lea is a 21st centuryteacher at Gearies InfantSchool. As part of theChildren’s Research intoPoetry, he developed a blogfor sharing planning,questionnaires, informationand findings. Not just for hispupils, but for other schoolsin the same network.Carol Weale, from DaneCourt Grammar School,used school-based wikipages and discussion threadsto help Year 11 students studytheir poetry anthology. Shefound their understanding ofthe poems improved so muchthat the boys’ GCSE gradesincreased by two gradesfrom C to A.Pete Hoskins worked witha low ability Year 7 class onscience at Westborough HighSchool. Using animationsand comic strip presentationsenabled children to describetheir investigations in a morevisual way, improving pupilunderstanding.Staff at Startforth Churchof England Primary Schoolused different activities toteach e-safety. Years 3 and 4used online resources whileYear 6 used role-play. Thisenabled staff to reinforceimportant messages topupils of all abilities.21st century teachers usetechnology for all administrativeprocesses, enabling them tosave time.They use technology to helpthem with:• planning teaching andlearning across a broad andbalanced curriculum• reusing, adapting andsharing documents• storing and analysing pupildata for formative andsummative assessment• identifying and addressingtheir professionaldevelopment, includingtheir own ICT training needs• responding to emergingtechnologies and practice.21st century teachers takeaccount of learning outsideschool. They make use of this inplanning for learning inside theclassroom.Teachers at EasingtonColliery Primary Schoolhave gained more time forteaching and learning byusing technology to lightentheir planning workload.Time and time again, theyreuse and adapt documentsand use ICT tools in teaching.Students at All HallowsCatholic College arerealising their potential andachieving higher standards.This shows the impact of thecollege’s CPD programmeand staff culture of regularlysharing practice and skills.Learners’ creativity,independence and motivationhave all improved atHomewood School and SixthForm Centre. Here,professional development forstaff encouraged teachers tocreate opportunities forstudents to use ICT todevelop as independentlearners. Students are nowencouraged to choose howand when they use ICT.4 5