Abstract: The aim of the study is to determine the student teachers and cooperating teachers’ practices in teaching 21st century skills among learners in the 21st century classroom. Specifically, the practices of the student teachers and cooperating teachers in teaching 21st century were clustered on the following areas: learning skills, literacy skills and life skills. With the use of descriptive method aided by survey-questionnaire as the main gathering tool, the data gathered were treated using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data revealed that student teachers and cooperating teachers practiced the development of 21st century skills among learners, particularly the learning skills or the 4 C’s (critical thinking, creative thinking, collaborating and communicating); they applied the principles of 21st century skills in their respective classrooms, particularly in promoting higher-order thinking skills; there is a significant difference between the practices of student teachers and cooperating teachers in teaching 21st century skills among learners; and there is no significant difference between the application of student teachers and cooperating teachers on the principles of 21st century skills in their respective classrooms.
Keywords: 21st century skills, 21st century classroom, student teacher, cooperating teacher, K-12 curriculum.
Title: Student Teachers and Cooperating Teachers’ Practices in the 21st Century Classroom: Developing 21st Century Skills among Learners
Author: Glenda C. Magno, Noraida G. Bardemorilla, Ryan R. Pecson
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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