By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed!
Kyle Wingfield, a blogger, posted an excellent referral to a film documentary called, “Most Likely to Succeed.” As Wingfield points out, the pathway that the creators of the documentary suggest includes a “shift from drilling kids on content, a readily available commodity, toward developing “soft skills” [appropriately, the film prefers “critical skills”] such as written […]
Read More…In an examination about critical skills, a perspective is in order inasmuch as “one size does not necessarily fit all.” This is true if the examination is about “soft skills” – SCANS, “Critical Skills,” “Skills for the Twenty First Century,” etc. There are a variety of such “skills” as well as other skills that enter […]
Read More…Michael B. Henderson and Martin R. West of the Brookings Institution have published an interesting paper on Partisanship and Public Opinion on the Common Core. The essence of the paper is a description of how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has mobilized public opinion in that state against the Common Core issue (for which he formerly […]
Read More…Julian L. Alssid, Chief Strategist for College for America, has written an interesting and highly relevant blog post concerning Competency Based Education. As he states in his post, “Competency-based education (CBE), which is designed to provide students with the skills they need to be successful in the workplace is taking hold.” Alssid points out that […]
Read More…Purdue University sees the wisdom of competency based instruction and has created a technology degree based on COMPETENCIES – not test scores. As Purdue President Mitch Daniels explains, “This degree enables students to work closely with their faculty mentor to create a personalized plan of study around their explored interests. “It allows the student to […]
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