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on 2009-10-13
Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.
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They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education.
But we don’t.
At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck.
We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in.
So back to the teacher accessibility issue.
How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?
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Dave Truss
Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.
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They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education.
But we don’t.
At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck.
We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in.
So back to the teacher accessibility issue.
How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?
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Our way has been to remind teachers that they have ALWAYS valued effective communication, collaboration, innovation, and thinking in their students. Only the media and the degree to which each is possible have changed.
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John EvansIs the term 21st Century out of date?
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MICDS LIBRARYwith us and now its a matter of fitting their great work into our original framework. But the premise remains. Past models – the best they could be in their time – generally failed because teachers did not believe it was their job to teach technology.
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with us and now its a matter of fitting their great work into our original framework. But the premise remains. Past models – the best they could be in their time – generally failed because teachers did not believe it was their job to teach technology.
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Nancy BlairEmphasized the "skills" rather than the technology; explores tech supporting acquisition of "skills."
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