Raising expectations « Educational Discourse - 0 views
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they will continue to live like their parents with the same expectations
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what students might need to do well as they leave school
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Communication skills - delivering their message clearly without misconceptions.
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ollaborative decision-making and work strategies. Groups are vital to progress - working together to create a product is found in nearly all professions - from construction to high-tech scientific work. Up until now collaborative - group - work has been “done” but there seems to be a lack of focus on learning those essential dynamics for productive collaboration.
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Students are mostly “me” focused, it goes with the age.
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he system really doesn’t encourage novel ideas or divergent thinking. Instead, there continues to be a dominate frame of reference that if you “learn” enough information and can then answer the questions on a test,
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here needs to be direct instruction on effective and non-effective collaboration
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Presentation skills, on the other hand, are largely neglected in schools, and few people put effort into developing them. Thus, presentation skills are a primary differentiator among you and your peers.”
