I liked the website, it had lots of good information, it went into the 21st century skills in more detail so there could be a better understanding as to what the students are to learn. I was very interested in the information the website had to offer such as the overview, tools and Resources, state initiatives, events and news. The website was user friendly, and filled with information.
Under the overview section I disagree with one theme that the students need to be taught – that is the global awareness. I feel that we need to make our students aware of the financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy, civic literacy, health literacy and environmental literacy before we worry about the global awareness. Once we accomplish all of the above, we can then focus on the global awareness. I was surprised to see that Texas did not have an overview of state work. I was pleased and surprised to see that the website had a self-Assessment tool to help schools and districts measure where they are in terms of student knowledge and skills; education support systems; leading and teaching; policy-making; partnering; and continuous improvement/strategic planning. I was also surprised to see that they had a speaker’s bureau, and links to recent presentations given by the Partnership. The implication for my students is that they have a lot to learn, and as an educator, I have a lot to teach.
Kay,
ReplyDeleteI understand that your State and school may have a lot to learn about applying 21st Century Skills into your curriculum, but at least now you have some tools and examples of how to incorporate them into your own classroom. It may take a supervisor, observing something in your classroom to realize that things need to change. I hope that you begin to apply some of these skills into your lessons and start paving the way for your students. Even if your administrators do not appreciate what you are doing your students will when they are more successful then their peers in the future.
Hi Kay,
ReplyDeleteI too like the idea of the website and it is great to see that these large corporations are working together to help schools produce graduates that will have skills and knowledge that will be in demand.
I was wondering why you think that Global Awareness should not be included as an important theme within our teaching? My thought is that technology is continuing to shrink the world and global awareness is becoming more and more important so that our students can collaborate and work effectively with people from across the globe.
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ReplyDeleteThe behaviorism-based learning resources that I viewed this week were very good. I could see myself using these resources to reinforce learning of different objectives, to reward students that are performing at the appropriate level, as well as use these resources to reinforce learning of the objectives being taught. The behaviorism-based learning resources kept my attention, and kept me motivated to go to the next step of learning on the resource. I could use several of the behaviorism-based learning resources to reinforce student’s efforts, and I could assign them for homework and practice to reinforce learning of the objectives being taught.
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