By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
Authentic Assessment is hard to do – but it’s the way assessment of skills SHOULD be done! Authentic assessment refers to assessment tasks that resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Its aim is to assess many different kinds of literacy abilities in contexts […]
Read More…Golly! At last we’re recognizing that there is more to success than just knowing some STEM and being able to take a standardized test! DUHHHH! Brent Orell of the American Enterprise Institute hits the nail on the head. You can access the article and a downloadable PDF document by clicking HERE.
Read More…The new podcast, “All About Skills,” is now up on iTunes. You can check it out with the link below or simply by clicking on the icon. All About Skills
Read More…Excellent article about the need to teach the Critical Skills. Click Here to go to article.
Read More…This is an interesting article taken from The B2B News Network. It deals (obviously) with the importance of soft skills in hiring remote developers. Remember . . . “communications” is #1 on the list of “Critical Skills.” You can access the article by clicking HERE.
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