Effectiveness of contextualized multiple intelligences based instructional strategy CMIIS for enhancing twenty first century skills among prospective teachers of Kerala

Abstract

Recently, educators, policymakers, and curriculum planners determined that, to be successful in this century, learner s must-have 21st-century skills. Twenty-first-century skills are abilities and attributes including critical thinking or problem solving or decision making, learning to learn or metacognition, communication, collaboration of teamwork, information literacy, ICT literacy, local or global citizenship, life or career skills, creativity or innovation, and personal or social responsibility such as cultural awareness or competence that can be taught or learned to enhance ways of thinking, learning, working and living in the world. Contextualized Multiple Intelligences based Instructional Strategy (CMIIS) is a framework developed to enhance 21st-century skills which are very essential for the teachers. And the main objective of this research is to formulate such a design of curriculum strategy, which can be largely utilized among prospective teachers. The pragmatic changes that brought as a result of COVID-19 asserted that there is a greater demand for generating and transferring new skills as the situation demands, in a dynamic manner likewise the teachers must also have a deeper understanding and knowledge of these skills to be successful in a constantly evolving global society. newline