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"Preparing students for successful careers is a major part of every educator's job, but most preservice and professional development programmes don't cover the skills employers are currently seeking - things like 'emergent' leadership, adaptability, humility and ownership." Illustration above by Linda Tieu.
Beth Dichter's insight:
We so often hear of the 21st century skills our learners need? Common Core tells us that learners need to be critical thinkers/problem solvers, communicators, collaborators and creators. What skills are employers looking for? More than just the four Cs. This post by InformEd provides background based on what employers say they need as well as 30 tips to teach soft skills. Four tips (quoted) are below. * Demonstrate alternate paths to content mastery. * Start grading students on how well they listen to their peers. * Assign group exercises that give people the opportunity to speak, listen, write, organize and lead. * Design opportunities for students to build and demonstrate resilience. There are many more tips in this post. Click through to learn more. 
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Failures may hurt, but they can actually have some positive effects on your life and mind.
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do failures improve us? This post explores 8 ways that failures teach us lessons, including building empathy, humility, flexibility and creativity. Engineers understand that failure is a part of the learning process, yet in school we tend to look at failure as a negative component of learning. Is it possible for us to look at our practice and provide opportunities for our students to learn from their failures?
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Mark Gleeson takes an infographic that he learned about on Scoop-it and brings the discussion of leadership and leadership building into the classroom, by taking each of the eight leadership qualities in the infographic and discussing them at three levels (quoted below from the post): * Peer Leadership (School Leadership teams/Curriculum leadership teams or individuals) * Teacher-leading-Class and * Student Leadership The eight leadership qualities are: * Courage * Humility * Accountability * Trustworthy * Communication * Conviction * Collaboration * Aligned What made this post valuable to me was his discussion on each of the eight qualities within the framework of the three levels of leadership that are in our schools. You may find yourself asking questions about leadership in your school or district, and wondering how you might use this information within your classroom (or school if you are an adminstrator).
Sophie Colas's comment,
February 25, 2013 7:37 AM
A ces qualités nécessaires, j'ajouterai la maturité, la générosité et la duplicité.
Sophie Colas's curator insight,
February 25, 2013 7:37 AM
A ces qualités nécessaires, j'ajouterai la maturité, la générosité et la duplicité.
Sophie Colas's comment,
February 25, 2013 7:48 AM
Excusez-moi, toutes les qualités contraires à la duplicité : droiture et franchise. Oups
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Have you asked yourself the question "What does it mean to be a great teacher?" Here are ten ideas from a teacher three days into teaching 6th grade this year, reflecting on his first 3 days and his previous years in teaching he asked himself this question, and came up with a list which he has shared. Read through the post and consider responding with your thoughts. What would you add to the list? And to give you a taste, here are a couple of his thoughts (but read on for his explanations): 1. A love of students 2. A love of good content 3. Solid pedagogy
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Thx Beth Dichter