Teaching in the 21st Century

2. Why are you here?
What was your motivation?
Why do you continue to do what you
do?
What is your personal goal?

3. What do you think makes a ‘good
teacher, good’?
@StJamesStaff

4. Think about this….
“The UK is ranked as the worst of the twenty-one
wealthy nations surveyed using a range of measures,
including the degree to which pupils’ are happy at
school. Children get just one childhood: it should be a
magical and happy time and their primary education
should leave a host of positive and deep meaningful
memories that last for the rest of their lives.”

5. Lets NOT Forget…
“We are educating children to do jobs that don’t yet
exist, using technologies that don’t yet exist to solve
problems that don’t yet exist.”

6. Life since 1995
Channel Tunnel Internet
Starbucks Opened MP3
Devolved Assembly in Wales Google
Ebay Ipod
iTunes Facebook
Dvd Recorder Wii

8. Remember…no such thing as a
wrong or ‘silly’ answer!
“If I chop a tree down and start
writing on it, does it become a table?
What if I don’t chop it down but climb
up it and start writing on it?”

9. “In order to equip our
children well for the future,
they need to encounter
inspirational teachers!”
Ian Gilbert, “Inspirational Teachers, Inspirational
Learners”, (2011)

10. Our BEST teachers will….
Inspire children to develop life-changing attitudes;
Help them to understand the importance of global awareness,
human rights, empathy and ethics;
Encourage children to embrace business and enterprise skills
(including risk taking, working collaboratively and by influencing
and negotiating with others);
Heighten children's’ sensitivity and creativity through a love of
literacy and the arts.

11. “Just in case learning V’s
Just in time learning”
Where is your
teaching?

12. Consider this…..
“School’s need to make learning ‘deep’ by giving
children real issues to explore and not presenting tired
topics that have been covered time and time again!
They recognise the value of…….allowing the children
to be enterprising.”
The Rotherham ‘Make £5 Blossom’ Project

13. The impact of INSPIRING young
people
“I was supposed to be a welfare statistic…..it is
because of a teacher that I sit at this table. I remember
her telling us one cold, miserable day that she could not
make our clothing better; that she could not provide us
with food; she could not change the terrible segregated
conditions under which we lived. She could introduce
us to the world of reading, the world of books and that
is what she did.

14. “What a world! I visited Asia and Africa. I saw
magnificent sunsets. I tasted exotic foods. I fell in love
and danced in wonderful halls. I ran away with
escaped slaves and stood beside a teenage martyr. I
visited lakes and streams and composed lines of verse.
I knew then that I wanted to help children do the same
things. I wanted to weave magic!

15. As teachers we need to
create wonderful, rich and
vivid life-changing
experiences!

16. So, what does good teaching and
learning look like?

17. What about our Curriculum?
We need to create a curriculum that is based around
powerful, memorable and well-structured learning
opportunities that ‘hook’ children into learning for the
rest of their lives.
“Those restaurants with the biggest menus don’t tend to
offer the best food because there is too much for the
chefs to think about!”

18. We need to…..
Maintain a strong focus on literacy and numeracy
with a far greater emphasis on speaking and
listening and the application of numeracy and
literacy;
Develop the use of ICT to support all areas of
learning;
Greater attention to ‘Personal & Social’ development;

19. AND ensure a Curriculum for all
All over this country behind closed doors of housing
estates or down country lanes there are other budding
dancers and actors but they may never set foot on a
stage. There are budding musicians and writers and
orators and artists but the door of opportunity may
never open for them, because they will not receive the
same support as our more academic learners.

20. Our Curriculum
How do we place pupils’ at the ‘heart’ of our curriculum?
How does our curriculum develop life-long skills for the
21st Century?
How does our curriculum hook, excite, motivate and
enthuse our pupils’?
How does our curriculum provide context, purpose and
relevance to the lives of our pupils?

21. Sadly…..
“The pressure to keep accelerating pupil progress can
prevent schools from looking at more creative and
dynamic ways of teaching. These schools often feel
constrained and complain of a world of compliance and
fear – especially the fear of penalties. They are often
located in areas of social deprivation which brings
further tensions.”

22. Lets not forget…..
The world is facing huge challenges and they are growing
daily in severity, scale and complexity. It is no exaggeration
to say they are not going to go away. Indeed they will get
worse unless we start to find solutions and find them soon.
If we are going to survive we need the next generation to be
smarter and better prepared than any generation before.
The only way is to teach our young and make the most of
their talents in a way that will help them meet the challenges
of the modern world.
The question is…..does our current education system work?

23. Summary Of the Key Points…
How do you make their time magical and happy?
How are you providing them with the skills to be successful in the 21st
Century?
In what ways are you inspirational?
Are you a, ‘Just In Case OR Just In Time’ teacher?
How do you make learning ‘deep’?
How do you ‘hook’ your learners?
Do you look for creative and dynamic ways of teaching?

24. What next...
Consider our ‘Learning Environments’
Consider our provision – Curriculum (Skills), Timetables,
Pedagogy
How is the FPh Approach being developed into KS2?
Enriched Curriculum
Homework

25. Your Homework…..
How can we develop the KWL Resources?
If we look towards ‘Areas Of Learning’, which areas would you like to be
involved in?
What do you think about weekly planning v’s daily planning?
What’s your thoughts about homework?
What do you think about the introduction of satellite weeks?
If you could change your learning environment to support effective
teaching & learning, what would you do?