The Future of Education in the 21st

CenturyBoard Session

April 2012

Portions of this presentation have been developed from materials in the Engage! Transformation Toolbox© and are used with the expressed permission of Engage! Learning Inc.

What are your most memorable experiences?

What teachers made the biggest impact on your education?

Reflection of School Experiences

Creating a New Vision for Education Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Education Para

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What are your highest hopes for your students?

What type of future do you want for them?

A Review of Education and Industry

19th Century

Work Education

20th Century

Work Education

21st Century

Work Education

List technology that your kids have available to them that you did not have at their age.

Looking at these pictures, what skills do students need to excel?

The Opportunity

“If we give students the same educational opportunity as their parents, they will also be well-prepared for the 20th century.

Let’s prepare them for the 21st century before it ends!”

Bill Daggett, President of ICL and futurist

“If Rip Van Winkle woke up today, the only place he would recognize is school.”

Claudia Wallis and Sonia Steptoe, “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the Twentieth Century”

Time, Dec. 2006

What are your ideas for what we should start doing in schools?

What should we stop doing in schools?

What does a challenging classroom look like?

How do we create a culture of challenge in all classrooms?

Questions for Consideration

When we get to the point that we don’t measure the level of our success based on a state assigned rating we can change education

Less preparation for standardized tests More work on

◦ Critical thinking skills ◦ Collaboration with others◦ Communication ◦ Creative thinking

Transformation & State Testing

How well is our district preparing kids for the 21st century?

Given these thoughts, how will our district goals need to change?

What steps must our district take to prepare our kids for their future?

Questions For Teams of 8

What steps should be taken right now?

What steps should be taken within:◦ The next 6 months?◦ The next year?◦ 3 to 5 years?

Action Planning

How can we measure if change has taken place?

What will our classes look like?

What skills will our students possess?

Measuring Success