All About Skills – Field Studies

In this episode, Charlie Jett discusses Field Studies in depth. Field Studies were highlighted by the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report, “Teaching the SCANS Competencies” as an effective means of teaching the Critical skills. Field Studies are conducted by a team of students and focus on issues identified by local area businesses […]

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Authentic Assessment – It’s Hard to Do – but It’s the Way Assessment of Skills Should Be Done!

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 […]

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The future of work won’t be about college degrees, it will be about job skills

Stephane Kasriel, Upwork CEO, pens a nice commentary about a recent survey, ‘Freelancing in America.’ You can read the article by clicking HERE. The results of the survey aren’t surprising. According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, freelancers put more value on skills training: 93 percent of freelancers with a four-year college degree […]

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The Importance of “Soft Skills”

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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