THE CURRICULUM FOR THE FUTURE
DEVELOPING THE NECESSARY SKILLS FOR A GOOD LIFE



OVERVIEWS 

Video:  7 Skills Students Need For Their Future - And adults who missed developing these!

Books:  A Whole New Mind, David Pink
           The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman,


WE'VE GOT TO HAVE THESE BASIC CAPABILITIES!

We need these curricula to start and be taught at each of the grades and levels of education.  We need also to know that each of us is capable of learning and doing these:

Rate each of these on a % competency basis and then decide whether and how fast to get to a higher level that you think would enhance your life!


THE KEY SKILLS                                                                  Search for pieces on any skill:

__ Core To Your Life

__ Learning effectively
__ Thinking effectively
    __ Thought processing
    __ Critical thinking
    __ Basic analysis (core to problem solving, decisions)
__ Emotional management (aka "intelligence")
    __ Beliefs management
__ Taking responsibility ("invisible" to some, but required for a good life!
__ Problem solving, decision-making (a form of thinking)
    __ Learning to describe what one sees 
    __ Unstructured problem solving
__ Planning
    __ Nailing down what is of highest value and prioritizing
    __ Designing the steps to get there
    __ Adjusting (correcting) for feedback from results
__ Time management (allocating time and effort to highest life value creation)
__ Information management - How to access and use information
__ How to live life and how things work and how to work them
    __ Physical
   __ Behavioral

(We must master how not to believe fears (we no longer get to numb out and be mechanical or unproductive, which means there will be less and less that is structured - and to handle that we need to rise to a higher level of thinking and to a place where we no longer fear unreasonably.)

Outside

We'll build this section later, after we've mastered the above pieces.
Presentation, persuasion
    Oral - Try to convince someone
    Written - Try to convince someone

Playing with our imagination

   
    Conversation
    Listening

Where do "tests" fit in all of this? 

Will we engage in just teaching to the test.  Are we doing accountability on the cheap.  Our multiple choice tests tell us nothing about the critical skills.  We've got to test whether a student can reason, analyze, hypothesize, weigh evidence, read text well and really comprehend what they're reading, how well they can communicate the things that matter most.  All young people will need to get and keep these skills.


RESOURCES

Asia Society, Partnership For Global Learning - Lesson plan and policy initiatives to prepare students for the 7 skills needed for the future.







My Progress In The Life Skills - Rating yourself on your learning and what you need to unlearn to have life work at its very best.  This was originally designed for a person who took a workshop.

Life Strategies And Plans - Having Them Ready To Handle Life As It Happens - Management of the emotional, the self, practices

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