Teaching the 21st Century Learner: Teachers Skills, Knowledge and Dispositions

Teaching the 21st Century Learner: Teachers' Skills, Knowledge and Dispositions, focuses on contemporary issues facing education and schooling as it provides a sociological and multicultural framework and analysis for teaching the 21st century learner. This book uses hands-on applications from the author's classroom observations, discussions with his colleagues and diverse learning theories about teaching and learning strategies. In particular, it focuses on the skills, knowledge and dispositions that will enable 21st century educators to become effective in contemporary classroom populated by learners with diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, different learning styles and needs. Thus, this book explores differentiated instructional techniques to meet the learning needs of diverse students at a setting, the skills learners should acquire to be productive in 21st century society, strategies for assessment and feedback to learners and creating classroom environments that will enhance teaching and learning. This book is for every instructor at all levels of education who wishes to improve students' understanding of contents and learning process. It is written in a plain language to address those challenges facing teaching and learning with strategies to engage the learner and equip them with essential 21st century skills to enable them compete effectively in the rapidly changing and technology-driven global economy.