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Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak
There this a debate going on concerning 21st-Century Skills teaching methods.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/03/04/23pushback_ep.h28.html?tmp=1625104813
Here’s what I find interesting, the opponents are making this learning/teaching method into an “either/or” versus “and/both” thinking solution set. One of the keys in the discussion from my point of view is helping the teachers prepare themselves for 21st-Century Skills teaching methods for the classroom. This different approach is not being accepted since it has more systemic changes to the process of learning. I find it interesting the opponents attack this approach but they have little to offer on how to improve our educational system. Another thing I like about the 21st-Centruy Skills method it is more student focused versus teacher focused.
Keep advancing this program in our schools system as I believe it will pay-off big time in the years ahead.
World Class Professional Development for the Whole Team--What Do Think About Norfolk School Systems
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A Different Context -- Educating our Youth
The article reference listed
below really gets you to think about how our education
should change. Julie Pfeil has it right, we just need to spend
time with children and get them to perform (work hard
at learning), especially those that are having learning
problems.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8675317
Not everyone's a genius, but don't say so in front of the children
BY the time Laszlo Polgar's first baby was born in 1969
he already had firm views on child-rearing. An eccentric citizen of communist
An expert on the theory of chess, he proceeded to teach little Zsuzsa at home, spending up to ten hours a day on the game. Two more daughters were similarly hot-housed. All three obliged their father by becoming world-class players. The youngest, Judit, is currently ranked 13th in the world, and is by far the best female chess player of all time.