Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
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I love this article, it has a very strong message and opens up the importance of not just "soft skills" but those hard to teach ones, creativity, innovation and in my discipine entrepreneurship.
One cannot think without content to think with and about. No doubt that students need foundational skills in order to actually use critically thinking and problem solving skills. But when in their life will they need to remember the facts from the textbook? How will they use what they memorized directly from a book? In education today, the focus is on quality control- making the grade, having top scores. The focus has shift away from teaching students those lifelong learning skills that they really need like creativity, common sense, how to win or lose, work ethic, etc. At the end of the day, our assessments of students need to match what they will be expected to do and perform in the real world. No perfect score will teach students how to be a good worker or how to follow their dreams without defeat.