Building and Enhancing Literacy Skills for 21st Century Learning (BEL)
Overview
Building and Enhancing Literacy Skills for 21st Century Learning (BEL) is a course that "introduces the concepts of new literacies in the 21st century as evolving social phenomena and shared cultural practices across learning areas. "
The course pack for BEL will have learners explore different 21st century literacies and literacy skills and create student work that will build these skills for their future classrooms.
“21st Century Learning Plan”, “Subject Library”, and “Meta” were projects that were specifically designed to respond to learning outcomes in BEL. Different projects may be linked together to address multiple learning outcomes.
BEL Course Packs
Meta Portfolio
Learning Outcomes
BEL-1 - Demonstrate content knowledge and its application within and/or across curriculum teaching areas
BEL-2 - Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that promote literacy skills
BEL-4 - Show skills in the selection, development and use of variety of teaching and learning resources, including ICT, to address learning goals
What will their project look like?
A portfolio of student work that showcases their reflections on the course and how they can apply what they learned in creating teaching strategies or learning experiences that address particular literacy needs or issues related to either traditional or 21st century literacies, to be identified and chosen by the PST.
Subject Library
Learning Outcomes
BEL-1 - Demonstrate content knowledge and its application within and/or across curriculum teaching areas
BEL-2 - Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that promote literacy skills
BEL-3 - Apply teaching strategies that develop learners’ critical and creative thinking and/or other higher order thinking skill
BEL-4 - Show skills in the selection, development and use of variety of teaching and learning resources, including ICT, to address learning goals
What will their project look like?
A curated set of lesson plans, resources, assessments, and activity guides to support teachers in different contexts in integrating 21st century skills in their subject areas.
21st Century Learning Plan
Learning Outcomes
BEL-2 - Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that promote literacy skills
BEL-3 - Apply teaching strategies that develop learners’ critical and creative thinking and/or other higher order thinking skill
BEL-4 - Show skills in the selection, development and use of variety of teaching and learning resources, including ICT, to address learning goals
BEL-5 - Demonstrate skills in the positive use of ICT.
What will their project look like?
There are two end products of this project: a class presentation that features an overview of the learning plan, and a learning plan that integrates a 21st century skill with the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the learner is expected to develop by the end of a particular learning unit.
