TEACHER COMPETENCY

IN THE 21ST CENTURY

CLASSROOM
Types and classification

What is Competency?
Competency in an underlying
characteristics of a person which enables
them to deliver Superior performance in
a given job, role or situation.

What is teacher competency?

Teacher competence refers to
the right way of conveying units
of knowledge, application and
skills to students.

21st century students are

Digital native
Activity oriented
Creative
Critical thinking
Curious
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Types of competency
Subject matter knowledge
A teacher should know what
she/he is going to teach in the class.
she/he should be able to convey the
content clearly and preciously.

Communication

skills

The effective teacher communicates

sensitively and language appropriate
to students ages, levels of development
gender, race, ethnic, linguistic and
socio economic backgrounds, as well
as individual learning styles and
needs.
Interacts with students
families and colleagues

 Instructional practice
Understands typical and atypical human
development and is familiar with
principles of curriculum and instruction,
including strategies for integrating special
education students in to regular classroom
settings and developing and implementing
individualized educational plans.

Evaluation
Designs and uses various evaluative
procedures to assess student learning.
Evaluates his/her own teachings behavior
and uses the results to improve students
learning.
Problem solving:
Effective teacher thinks critically about
teaching and learning
Fosters students creative and analytical
thinking skills.

Professionalism competency:
The effective teacher understands
his/her legal and moral responsibilities.
Learns from experience and
supervision.

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CHARACTERISTICS
Focus
Focus on the students point of view.
Re-think
Re-think how the student interprets
your lesson.
Dialogue:
Dialogue with your students.

Design:
Allow the students to design and create
websites, blog etc
Discern:
Teach students how to discern what is good
information and what is not.
Incorporate:
Incorporate Seeing things from a different
perspective.
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Relate:
Learn new ways to relate to your
students.
Integrate:
Integrates theories in to your classroom
invest in the character you are teaching
about
Question:
Encourage and entertain all questions

Document:
Document the learning for your reflection
and the students reflection.
Flip:
Flip the classroom with useful re-sources.
Social media:
Be social

We are in the formation of becoming

the teachers in 21st century .
What are our teaching competency?
Let us take some concrete steps to
develop our teaching competency

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Thank you