Cebu Technological University CTU - Main Campus

Republic of the Philippines
CEBU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

CTU - Main Campus
Corner M.J. Cuenco Avenue and R. Palma St.,
Cebu City, Philippines 6000
BUILDING AND ENHANCING NEW LITERACIES
FINAL EXAMINATION
J-Paolo A. Jabagat BTLED, 3-G3
Directions: Read and understand the following questions. Answer it to the best of your ability.
1. What are the 21st Century skills and discuss each briefly.
a.) The Learning Skills teaches students about the mental processes required to adapt and
improve upon a modern work environment. It includes critical thinking, creativity,
collaboration and communication;
b.) Literacy Skills focuses on how students can discern facts, publishing outlets, and the
technology behind them. There’s a strong focus on determining trustworthy sources and factual
information to separate it from the misinformation that floods the Internet. It includes
information, media and technology; and
c.) Life Skills takes a look at intangible elements of a student’s everyday life. These intangibles
focus on both personal and professional qualities. It includes flexibility, leadership, initiative,
productivity and social skills.
2. For you as a teacher, how will you help or prepare your students develop 21st century
skills?
As a teacher I will help and prepare my students develop the 21 st century skills by these
4C’s: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical thinking. Effective teachers are the
moderators of the learning so I will let my students lead the learning but at the same time
giving them inspiration to do more, and guiding them to discover themselves. To make a
healthy and active classroom is a sharing classroom and so I will encourage my students to have
collaboration so that they will be able to develop their speaking and listening skills and by that
it teaches them to effectively achieve their goals in life. If students have a lot of questions, I will
let them find the means to answer it all and so I will establish an Inquiry-based Classroom
Environment. It is essential to have a KWL chart (What do you Know? What do you Want to
know? What have you Learned?) Lastly, I will let my students develop critical thinking skills
where they can use this to solve problems in a new situations, make judgments with mere facts,
and evidences, and alike.
3. What professional development and/or resources will you need to make your students
develop the 21st century skills?
I will engage myself to a lot of seminars and trainings to develop more my skills,
knowledge, and abilities so that I will be ahead of my students. I should study, and enroll for a
professional development programs and courses so that I will be well-versed in the subjects I
need to teach in order to be adept at using different methods and, if necessary, changing my
approaches to optimize learning. This includes content-specific strategies and methods to teach
specific content. The strategies that I should be using include direct, whole-group teaching,
guided discovery, group work, and the facilitation of self-study and individual discovery that has
personalized feedback. I will engage myself in a highly collaborative ways, working with other
teachers, professionals and para-professionals within the same organization, or with individuals
in other organizations, networks of professional communities and different partnership
arrangements, which may include mentoring teachers because I am pretty sure it will help me a
lot. Lastly, the most momentous is I need to acquire strong skills in technology and the use of
technology as an effective teaching tool, to both optimize the use of digital resources in my
teaching and use information-management systems to track student learning. I will have a
reflection on my practices in order to learn from my experience and be able to teach effectively
for my students.
4. What are the different approaches used in the 21st century and discuss how this
approach is being used.
a. Competency-based learning means that the development of skills and the

establishment of work habits as the main goals. Through assessment tools such as
rubrics, teachers can go through the academic curriculum without significant deviations
but focusing it in a different way, putting into practice real examples and, thus,
transmitting to their students a more tangible dimension of the lessons.
b. Thinking-based Learning means that they will be teaching the students to contextualize,
analyze, relate, argue in short, convert information into knowledge. The goal is to
develop thinking skills beyond memorization and, in doing so, developing effective
thinking on part of the students.
c. Problem-Based Learning is a cyclic learning process composed of many different stages,
starting with asking questions and acquiring knowledge that, in turn, leads to more
questions in a growing complexity cycle. The main goal is to develop critical thinking and
creative skills, improve the problem-solving abilities, and increased student motivation
that will lead to better knowledge sharing in challenging situations.
d. Cooperative Learning is working in a group since it improves the attention, involvement
and acquisition of knowledge by students. The final goal is always group-oriented and
will be achieved if each of the members successfully performs their tasks.
e. Design Thinking applies stems from industrial designers and their unique method to
solve problems and satisfy the needs of their clients. Applied to education, this model
makes possible to identify with greater accuracy the individual problems of each
student and generate in their educational experience the creation and innovation
towards the satisfaction of others, which then becomes symbiotic.
5. Discuss the importance of the teacher in designing the curriculum.
Teachers know their students’ needs better than others involved in curriculum process. They
can provide insights into the types of materials, activities, and specific skills that need to be
included in the curriculum. They can be the maker who writes a curriculum daily through lesson
plan, a unit plan, or a yearly plan. The teacher can be a developer that will design, enrich, and
modify the curriculum to suit the learners’ characteristics. They can be an implementer; teacher
will give life to the written materials and shift his role from planning into doing such as guiding,
facilitating, and directing activities.
6. What are the characteristics of a teacher as a person who designs the curriculum and
explain each.
Teacher should be a knower who knows about the curriculum, the subject matter or the content. As a
teacher, one has to master what are included in the curriculum. They are the writer of the curriculum
such as books, modules, laboratory manuals, instructional guides, and reference materials in
paper or electronic media. They should be a planner that includes the learners, support
material, time, subject matter or content, desired outcomes, context of the learners among
others. They are the ones who will become an initiator of the implementation of a new
curriculum that require the open mindedness of the teacher, and the full belief that the
curriculum will enhance learning. They are the innovators who have the creativity and
innovation since a curriculum is always dynamic, hence keep on changing. They are the
implementer where teaching, guiding and facilitating skills of the teacher is expected to be the
highest level. Lastly, they will become an Evaluator who evaluates how one can determine if the
desired learning outcomes have been achieved and is the curriculum working.
7. What is a program of study and how important it is in the educative process.
Program of study means a curriculum of two or more courses that is intended or

understood to lead to a degree, diploma, or certificate. It may include all or some of the courses
required for completion of a degree program. Without this your educative processes won’t be
successfully done. When you miss some of the courses that include in your program of study
you might fail to accomplish your college degree. It is essential to know and take all the courses
needed for your degree program to avoid failing in view of the fact that it is one of the most
important requirements in getting your certificate or diploma.
7. As a teacher, how will you create a positive classroom atmosphere to your students
where your students can develop their skills to its fullest.
I will address student needs, create a sense of order, greet students at the door every
day, I will let my students get to know me, and get to know my students as well to build a
strong relationship, avoid rewarding to control, avoid judging, employ class-building games and
activities, be vulnerable, and lastly celebrate successes that will lift their appetite to study
harder.

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Republic of the Philippines

CEBU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BUILDING AND ENHANCING NEW LITERACIES

J-Paolo A. Jabagat BTLED, 3-G3

a. Competency-based learning means that the development of skills and the

5. Discuss the importance of the teacher in designing the curriculum.

7. What is a program of study and how important it is in the educative process.

Program of study means a curriculum of two or more courses that is intended or

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