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M E A N I N G S O F

GLOBAL FILIPINO TEACHERS NURTURING MILLENNIAL LEARNERS

Paraluman R. Giron, Ed.D.

“Millennials” is a modern and current label or brand of a younger people of the so-called “Generation Y”

What are the equivalent names or meanings of Generation Y, can you guess?

Equivalent names or meanings of Gen Y

• Nexters
• Generation Next
• Baby Boom Echo Generation
• Echo Boomers
• Digital Natives
• Generation Me
• Sunshine Generation (in Canada)

TWO KINDS OF CURRENT MILLENNIAL LEARNERS

• 1. MILLENNIAL STUDENT (2017) ages 17 to

36

• 2. MILLENNIAL TEACHER (2017) ages 25 to

36

A millennial teacher made this word cloud about millennials. Can you spot the wrong spelling of a word?

They are younger people. People are people. Period.

Well, I say…

CHARACTERISTICS OF MILLENNIAL LEARNERS

• 1. SPECIAL treated as special and important; big sense of entitlement; milestones in life with

celebration and praise; most of the time they expect frequent positive feedback; with native feeling and idealism to solve problems of the world that older ones failed to solve; learning style is differentiated

• 2. SHELTERED protected as children; grew up at a time of many safety measures (car seatbelts,

emergency situation signs and drills, school lockdowns); rarely left unsupervised; as college students, common expectation for them from adults is to protect and nurture them; learning style is heavy guidance/reliance on instruction

• 3. SOPHISTICATED mostly updated and upgraded for those who can afford; technology-

assisted/enabled; appreciative of fabulous and savvy in trends and practices; confidently goal-oriented and motivated, hence assertive and believe they are “right”; easily dazzled by complex algorithms and yet prefers simple solutions to problems; learning modality preference is technology-enhanced

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CHARACTERISTICS OF MILLENNIAL LEARNERS

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• 4. TEAM-ORIENTED untypically individualists who are community-oriented; may be willing to sacrifice their
• wn identity to be part of a group; prefers egalitarian leadership, not hierarchies; while they are group-oriented within

their own cohort, they may exclude other generations; dislikes selfishness; learning style oriented towards service learning and volunteerism

• 5. ACHIEVER with focus on getting good grades, hard work, involvement in extracurricular activities, etc. is

resulting in higher achievement levels; sees college as the key to a high paying job and success, and may miss the bigger picture of what a college education is all about; pressured to decide early on a career – and have been put on a career track orientation since grade school; focus is more on achievement rather than personal development; if the Boomer generation made their mark in the humanities and arts, the Millennials prefer math and science fields

• 6. PRESSURED in elementary and high school, have had more hours of homework and less free time for pure

spontaneous play; may struggle in handling free time and time management; they’ve been pushed hard to achieve and felt pressured to succeed thus thinks others should be flexible with them; they think multi-tasking is smart and saves time without being fully aware of the quality of results; learning style dependent on structured activity

• 7. CONVENTIONAL ordinarily appearing and sounding disrespectful but still trusts in authority to the point of

not questioning authority; they fear being considered non-conformist; their clothing, music, and cultural markings will be very mainstream and not punk; they still support and believe in social rules, and are more in line with their parents’ values than most other generations have been; effective learning style may be values-based

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“Gen X”

“Gen Y”

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Generation Y

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“Millennials”

CONSTANTLY CONNECTED, YET DISTRACTED.

What some mature people or non- millennials say about millennials…

“They are never alone!”

“They are connected and conversant even at the dinner table.”

“They can easily spot a weirdo in the MRT train.”

“They have long buried Literature With Google, FaceBook, YouTube, Wikipedia,

“They have grown roots into the game!”

“Some of them think they evolved from monkey to man, making meaning of mandates divine!”

“They are prisoners in the 21st century, trying to be free and flexible always for a fee.”

In Philippine Education, it is now likely that there are more (25-35 year-old) millennial teachers manning the classrooms today

What some managers say about millennials working today…

What some millennial learners say about millennials learning…

How about you? What do you know and what can you say about millennials? Let’s play a game about millennial lingo, slang or language!

Click on the yellow background to play the game.

NURTURING MILLENNIAL LEARNERS - engaging them thru the 5R1H Strategy

Christy Price, EdD, a psychology professor, became interested in Millennial learners when she noticed a gap between students’ expectation for success and the effort they put forth in the classroom (Price, 2009). Price then conducted a qualitative analysis of narratives provided by more than a hundred Millennial learners to get a more accurate picture of what makes them tick. In the recent online seminar Price shared some of what she’s learned regarding the characteristics of Millennials’ ideal learning environments, their preferences regarding assignments and assessment, and the characteristics of their ideal professor. She then outlined the instructional implications of her findings with these five R’s for engaging Millennial students. – Mary Bart, 16 November 2011

• 1. Research-based 2. Relevance
• 3. Rational 4. Relaxed 5. Rapport
• 6. Humanistic

IMPLICATIONS TO LANGUAGE TEACHING & READING EDUCATION

• 1. RESEARCH-BASED Research suggests Millennials prefer a variety of active learning methods. When they are not interested in

• 2. RELEVANCE Millennials have grown up being able to Google anything they want to know, therefore they do not typically value

• information. One of the greatest challenges for teachers is to connect course content to the current culture and make learning outcomes and

• 3. RATIONAL Unlike Boomers who were raised in a more authoritarian manner in which they more readily accept the chain of command,

• 4. RELAXED Millennials prefer a less formal learning environment in which they can informally interact with the professor and one another. In

• 5. RAPPORT Millennials are extremely relational. They are more central to their parents’ lives than previous generations and are used to

• 6. HUMANISTIC – Need for strong spiritual mooring.

LANGUAGE & READING DYNAMISM AND DIFFERENTIATION FOR THE PRESENT CHALLENGES IN NURTURING MILLENNIAL LEARNERS

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Defin initio ion of f Soft Skill ills

Soft skills, are subjective skills that are much harder to quantify. Also known as "people skills" or "interpersonal skills," soft skills relate to the way you relate to and interact with other people.

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Life Skil ills ls Progr gram

“Even in developed countries, th there remain today serio rious short rtages of f recruits with ith th the crit ritical ‘soft’ skills companies require most….”

“Firms are increasingly rely lying on developing employees th themselves, particularly in Asia….”

“Executives bemoan a lack of creativity in recruits….”

Int ntegrati ting So Soft t Skills Skills in in the the Educ Educatio tion Cur Curric riculum

Therefore -

Value the importance of integrating soft skills (teamwork, interpersonal, problem solving, decision making, communication skills) in the education curriculum to complement with the demands of present day work place….

• Key observations in the life of a

modern laborer and some of its immediate implications in the work place

• Suggested frameworks for the

enhancement of human flourishing in the work place

Integrating Life Skills in the Education Curriculum

“All of these qualities–empathy, dis iscipline, the capacity to solv lve problems, the capacity to thin ink cr critically – these skills don’t just ch change how the world sees you. They ch change how we see ourselves.

…They allow each of us to seek

• ut new horizons and new
• pportunities with confidence – with

the knowledge we’re ready; that we can face obstacles and challenges and unexpected setbacks. That’s the power of … education.”

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According to Howard Inlet (played by actor Will Smith), the protagonist in a recent movie Collateral Beauty, there are three realities that connect and re-connect people…

LOVE, TIME, and DEATH.

These three abstractions connect every single human being on the planet. Everything that we covet. Everything that we fear not

• having. Everything that we ultimately end up buying. Because at

the end of the day, we long for LOVE, we wish we had more TIME, and we fear being short on life or losing it; we fear DEATH.

The nation’s leaders, education managers, school heads and teachers… will come and go.

The leaders of tomorrow need global teachers today

You need to be global. With a heart the size of a planet.

Challenge to school heads and language teachers:

Problems anywhere, are problems everywhere.

To understand and love the millennial students and teachers.

All this infographics about MILLENNIALS is lacking what would truly make it interesting: the ability to make a useful comparison with previous generations' attitudes. Without that, all we can do is make intelligent guesses about how different the MILLENNIALS are. Your guess is as good as mine: they're not that much different after all; which means that they've only got about 10-15 years more before they're the ones complaining about the lack of work ethic in the GENERATION Z that will follow them.

Let’s just throw that “Hail Mary Pass” (football term) for them, while we’re still here, alive, nurturing them, so that we all get a run for the goal.

All they need is…

PARAH GIRON

Board for Professional Teachers Professional Regulation Commission

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