Work for the Future

Work for the Future

Education needs to decentralise from one key outcome, the Grade 12 score, and instead develop and value the full range of capabilities young people require for a successful future. Schools educate children for thirteen years, so have a prime role in developing the capabilities young people will need to thrive. Basics, such as literacy, numeracy and core subject knowledge, are important. But the senior secondary years need to go beyond this and provide young people with advanced capabilities within and across subject areas.
Teaching the UN Sustainable Goals

Teaching the UN Sustainable Goals

Here is attached a publication which has a twofold aim – to help students learn a language creatively whilst at the same time raising awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through bringing together a range of innovative ideas for teaching creatively and addressing these key issues. The activities include enabling students to think creatively about sustainable food and food supplies, creating energy which does not harm the environment, and collaborating with other students globally to diminish the digital divide.
Why? How? What? Who? Where? When?

Why? How? What? Who? Where? When?

Achieving our goals has become even more challenging. We live in a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. We need a learning system that ensures an “education worth having” – one that is fit for purpose enabling learning for all; one that is increasingly productive; one that allows all to “learn a living”.
Critical & Creative Thinking

Critical & Creative Thinking

“It’s also important to understand that creativity is not the only thing that matters. There are all kinds of competencies, such as critical thinking, which are implicit in any understanding of how creativity works,” Ken Robinson said.. “There are skills of collaboration, compassion, cooperation and personal composure, but the first thing for school leaders to recognise is that creativity is articulated with all of these other competencies.” Read more…