Modeling and Developing 21st-Century Skills With Preservice Teachers

• In Event: 30.080 - Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: 30.080-23 - Examining and Developing Technology and Information Literacies Within Preservice Teachers' Lives

Abstract

Education, business, and policy leaders recognize the need to develop competencies in the 21st Century Skills (i.e., creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and information, media, and technology skills). Through a mixed methods approach, this study explored how and to what extent faculty developed and modeled those skills within one university in three teacher education programs (Elementary, Secondary, and Special Education). Results indicate that teacher educators need to be robust models of the simultaneous integration of 21st Century Skills to facilitate the development of these skills. This research aims to address a gap in the teacher education literature by building a model for the development of these skills in preservice teachers.

Authors

• Shadi Roshandel, Dominican University of California

• Rosemarie Michaels, Domincan University of California

• Jacquelyn M. Urbani, Dominican University of California

• Elizabeth A. Truesdell, Dominican University of California