Student's Learning

Education Leadership's article, "Rigor Redefined", written by Tony Wagner talked about how our students today are learning. How school's aren't fully preparing students for the future and it showed various things a student should be learning.

Starting off the article, Wagner said, "Even our "best" schools are failing to prepare students for 21st-century careers and citizenship.” What does it mean when even our “best” schools can’t teach our students what they need to know? It means we should start changing how and what we teach students. The article gave seven skills that students should be learning for the future: critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and leadership, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurialism, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing information, and curiosity and imagination. Instead of always teaching students what they need to know on tests, they should be taught skills needed to face the 21st-century. Getting schools to reach this point of teaching may take a lot of changes and new ideas but if done, all students would be much more prepared for what is to come.