21st Century Classrooms

The term “21st century” has become an integral part of educational thinking and planning for the future. Educators and administrators are actively searching for ways to prepare students for the future, and the educational system has been evolving faster than ever before.

What is the role of education in the 21st century?

The role of education is to prepare students to become active, successful, and contributing members of society. The essence of education’s role has not changed. However, there has been an important change that must be considered.

The following are four ideas that we should focus on when developing a 21st century classroom:

1. Instruction should be centered around the student - meaning the dynamics of the classroom will change and the teacher will not be the focus (gone are the days of lessons based on lectures). Instead the students will have to utilize their ability to learn and use the new information that they receive and connect it with prior knowledge to solve new problems that arise. The teacher will become the facilitator for the students as they gather information on their own. The 21st century classroom is a more hands-on classroom than classrooms of the past.
2. Collaboration - in the 21st century classroom students must learn to collaborate with one another including people of other cultures and who have different values within their own classrooms. They will work together to discover information, put it together and solve problems.
3. Contextual Learning - this is basically teaching transferable skills and how they can be used in every day life. Students must know that what they are learning in the classroom can and will be used outside of the classroom.
4. Schools should be integrated with the community and society - in the 21st century classroom students must not only learn how to interact with one another in the classroom but also outside of the classroom. So we need to teach students how to take part in a global society and become productive, responsible citizens.

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