This essay focuses on noncontent-related skills such as perseverance. believes that our school system must be “re-imagined” to focus on the skills that matter today

noncontent-related skills such as perseverance

Many leaders in creativity and innovation do. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson describes the state of education today as “Death Valley” in need of rainfall to awaken the dormant fields.1 It’s “one minute to midnight” on the clock that will strike the demise of our educational system.2 Innovation expert Tony Wagner believes that our school system must be “re-imagined” to focus on the skills that matter today. “The world simply no longer cares what you know because Google knows everything. What the world cares about, and what

matters for learning,

work, and citizenship, is what you can do with what you know.”3 Business leaders continue to report that “creativity is king” in their list of most sought-after employee attributes, along with other noncontent-related skills such as perseverance, problem solving, and leadership. Realistically, how can schools develop these talents in all students? Decades of school reform based on standards and standardized testing have left our students unmotivated and disengaged. Teachers feel the pressure to “cover the curriculum,” to.

focus on raising test scores to proficiency level, which leaves them feeling force to “teach to the test.” Test data are examine primarily to identify deficits rather than strengths. Even with new, more rigorous content standards, the taught curriculum is narrow to what is assess on standardized tests. The purpose of this book is not to articulate our education crisis, which has been articulated so well elsewhere.

This book presents a solution:

a paradigm shift in the way we look at teaching and learning. I call this shift teach to develop talent (talent-targeted teaching as opposed to test-targeted). And all schools can begin this shift now, right in the midst. This is of their current practices, with or without changes. It is  in board policies and state regulations. This book is written for all educators (and that includes parent and community members). This is  who sense the urgency in this crisis of wasted talent. It describes a practical approach to teaching and learning that schools. They  can begin even in the midst of the standards movement. You won’t necessarily need to throw out your required curriculum and assessments to do so. You’ll see how a talent-targeted teaching approach directly supports student motivation, engagement, and developing the talent aptitudes of tomorrow’s innovators today.

Details;

Firstly, be creative