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Core Skills for 21st
Century workplace
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‘We need to educate our children for their future,
not our past’
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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Getting the Balance Right?
Policy Quality
Implementation
90% 10%
Unsuccessful reform spend 90% effort on policy
and 10% on implementation Unsuccessful reform spend 90% effort on policy
and 10% on implementation
Policy
Quality
Implementation
Source: Imagine Education
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The Facts!
Classroom boredom seen globally- “students are more asleep
during lectures than they are in bed”
All time high unemployment among young people globally
Poor employer satisfaction of new graduates hired
Poor return on investment (policy to impact in the classroom)
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Why core skills?
To be able to be successful in the long term, our young people
need to be enabled to:
• generate and implement new ideas, solutions and products
• use digital tools to enable knowledge discovery, creation of
resources and communication
• apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems
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ways of working: communication and collaboration
ways of thinking: critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and
innovation, learning to learn and metacognition
ways of living in the world: global citizenship and civic responsibility,
including cultural awareness and competence
tools for working: information literacy, information and
communication technology (ICT) literacy
Why core skills?
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Creativity and
imagination Critical
thinking and
problem
solving Citizenship
Student
leadership
and personal
development
Digital
literacy Collaboration
and
communication
British Council
core skills
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Effective classroom practices
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International Collaboration
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Working with Head Teachers
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