Skills for Growth Through Rethinking Teaching and Learning Greg Butler
Founder/Partner, Collaborative Impact SPC.
@gbutler_at_CI
[email protected] Do Your Students Love School? Percentage of Students That Love School by Grade 95
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Lee Jenkins: School Administrator May 2012. Reversing the Downslide of Student Enthusiasm.
Assessing & Teaching The Right Skills Is Critical
Mean task input as percentiles of the 1960 task distribution
How the demand for skills has changed
Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (US)
Routine manual
65 60
Nonroutine manual
55 Routine cognitive
50
Nonroutine analytic
45 40 1960
1970
(Levy and Murnane)
1980
1990
2002
Nonroutine interactive
The dilemma of schools: The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones that are easiest to digitise, automate and outsource
Incremental vs Transformational From
To
School is boring
School is motivating & engaging
Information recall
Competency development
Measuring what is easy
Measuring what we value
Educators have the answers
Learning partnerships
Standardization & compliance
Multiple paths for multiple learner destinations
Learning at school
Life wide learning
Limited innovation
Constant and rapid innovation
Global Partnerships Global Leaders Partners Michael Fullan
Andreas Schleicher
John Hattie
Peter Hill
Russ Quaglia
Formative Assessment of Deep Learning Competencies
Getting the Answer Right
“Create new knowledge and connect it to the world by using the power of digital tools” – A Rich Seam
Closing Points When
How
Risks
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