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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.
Marlene March 4th, 2009 3:36 pm
I have read some of this and there is a particular columnist who has written several articles opposed to the needs of students int he "21st century" or whatever you want to call it. You are right on the money, in that we think these are skills that should be integrated into the curriculum and become somewhat of a different way of teaching... not just the lecture format. The partnership will be the first to say there is the need for basic skills and a core curriculum and that this does not have to be an add on. They address some of these articles at their website.