Author :- Jaymala
Education is a field filled with buzzwords, from RTI to collaborative development to differentiated instruction to student-centered acquisition and beyond. The latest trend in this time of \"change\" is 21st century skills.
21st century skills encapsulate all that teachers have been solicitation for in the post-NCLB era: creativity, problem-solving and acquisition beyond fact recitation.
Like most ed buzz words, this one emanates from a genuine, intelligent approach to preparing kids for their future. This approach would liberated teachers from the stifling bonds of NCLB and it just makes sense.
After pleas from teachers, Obama has picked up the 21st century skills burner and is blazing it finished policy, tackling the easiest characteristic first.
Technology in the classroom is a commonsense factor to 21st century acquisition since ours is the internet age. Obama plans to money computer and broadband access in schools nationwide. But tackling school is the easy part.
Implementing it on a nationwide contract level module be harder than installing computers. How do you give a standardized effort on creativity? This murkiness led one pedagogue Post writer calls 21st century skills \"a pipe dream whose literature should be tossed in the trash.\"
Personally, I'm reminded of an episode from The Office. The inept boss, Michael, asks the receptionist, Pam, to indite downbound \"everyone's indefinable qualities. Just indite downbound what people are doing all day in a way that is helpful.\"
Later on, he asks about their scores from the day.
Pam: \"I think they're even. At various times, you gave Jim 10 points, Dwight a gold star and Stanley a thumbs up. I'm don't rattling undergo how to compare those units.\"
Michael: \"Check if there's a transmutation interpret in the notebook.\"
Turns out, there isn't a transmutation chart.
And so goes the problem with generically testing for \"the kinds of research, scientific investigation, and problem solving that our children module need to compete in a 21st-century knowledge economy.\" (Obama)
Regardless of how difficult and Byzantine it module be to attain this shift, I agree with contract analyst Elena Silva:
Whether or not the trendy label of \"21st-century skills\" lasts, says Elena Silva, a senior contract analyst at the Education Sector in Washington, what's important is the evolving research on how people learn.
Teachers were long taught to cover content first and wait for children to intend older before having them apply it, she says, but now research shows that \"people learn prizewinning by acquisition content at the same time they are acquiring [and applying] new skills.\" Read more about 21st century skills
