Where We Are Going In The 21st Century...

The most important challenge for education leaders today is fostering 21st Century skills and knowledge in today’s students so they will be prepared to participate in our global economy. This challenge requires that teachers understand what types of knowledge and skills are required in leading edge workplaces and future careers. Teachers will also need to become adept at higher order cognitive, affective, and social skills such as systems thinking, creativity and collaboration. This will require transformation strategies for developing deeper core content, new models of pedagogy, (the art or science of being a teacher) and development of personal learning networks.

Virtual learning communities are on way to provide the intellectual, emotional, and social support needed for teachers to unlearn and relearn contextually in an effort to bring about the needed behaviour changes necessary to make way for the next generation of classroom practices.

As you can see by the above statements we are forever evolving and changing and in today’s society we need to keep up on those skills. Too ever think that once you left school, that was it, is foolish thinking if you are going to keep up with this ever changing world we live in.

Are you currently blogging, publishing or running your own online marketing business? It is really important that you learn to blog, because that’s where the world is headed. It will make you think a little bit more – and you’ll get to be more entrepreneurial. It will help you to run your own little private business, in some respects. But the real market of the future is teaching your skills or knowledge, which applies to facts or ideas acquired by study, investigation, observation or experience and getting paid for it.

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