The 21st century education is certain to dictate new roles for teachers in their classrooms and schools. The teachers are expected to know and do new things to be able to teach students in the 21st Century:
• Leadership among the staff and with the administration is sure to be shared in order to see better the purpose of work of the school. Teachers are valued for the contributions they make to their classroom and the school.
• Teachers are expected to make the content they teach engaging, relevant, and meaningful to students’ lives.
• Teachers are unlikely to cover material; they, along with their students, uncover solutions. They are supposed to teach existing core content developing skills like critical thinking, problem solving, and information and communications technology (ICT) literacy.
• In their classrooms, all students are made to use 21st Century skills so they discover how to learn, innovate, collaborate, and communicate their ideas.
• The 21st Century content (global awareness, civic literacy, financial literacy, and health awareness) proves to be included in the core content areas.
• Subjects and related projects seem to be integrated among disciplines and involve relationships with the home and community.
• Teachers are known to demonstrate the value of lifelong learning and to encourage their students to learn and grow.
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