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Eleven Step Educators Guide for Preparing Students for Success In the Real World
| Guest post by: Roger Ingbretsen |
Article Overview: Educators must go beyond catering to the top students who will most likely go to college and the bottom students who are a disruption to the majority. They can no longer ignore the vast majority (the middle 50% to 60%) of good, average, middle of the road students, who with the right personal qualities, mind-set and technical skill-set, can and must become vital contributors to the future workplace. The eleven step checklist in this article provides several ideas/concepts to improve/enhance the K-12 formal or home school education system.
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Eleven Step Educators Guide for Preparing Students for Success In the Real World
Educators – administrators
and teachers – must be both dedicated to academic excellence and provide the
environment to educate and train our human capital so they are prepared to not
only function in school, but creatively contribute to the greater good of our
society by being able to apply what they have been taught.
Educators must go beyond
catering to the top students who will most likely go to college and the bottom
students who are a disruption to the majority. They can no longer ignore the
vast majority (the middle 50% to 60%) of good, average, middle of the road
students, who with the right personal qualities, mind-set and technical
skill-set, can and must become vital contributors to the future workplace. The
following eleven step checklist provides several ideas/concepts to
improve/enhance the K-12 formal or home school education system.
K-12 Preparation for Success
in the Real World
1. Educators and the education system must
absolutely embed the SCANS goals (see pages 76-81) as critical
instructional elements of a learning environment. This single action could
have the greatest impact on preparing the student for the real world.
2. Administrators need to administer and discipline,
and teachers need to teach and discipline. Together they need to provide
and enforce clear and concise rules and boundaries for acceptable behavior
so a “learning environment” is assured.
3. Administrators and teachers need to provide clear
and concise instruction and expectation for academic assignments. Together
they need to understand how and what they teach in their classroom fits
into the larger picture of their school, community and the future
employability of the student.
4. Good administrators and teachers must help reduce
the isolation of the lone teacher behind closed doors in the classroom by
mentoring, coaching and connecting with each other, in a true spirit of
support, networking and collegiality.
5. Educators must keep the curiosity to learn alive
both in themselves and in the students they teach.
6. Educators and students need to learn how to
conduct effective internet and library searches for the “most accurate”
sources of information.
7. Educators and students need to understand and use
continually the application of technology skills such as word processing,
data management, spreadsheets and multimedia presentations.
8. Although achievement tests are critical to the
learning environment, businesses rarely use grades or achievement scores
as a criterion for employment. They look at an individual’s ability to
“apply what they learn” and produce outcomes or deliverables. Therefore,
students need to develop the ability to take what they learn and produce
creative or innovative new ideas or concepts. This process can be embedded
in creative writing courses, science projects, debate sessions or group
dialogue or brain-storming sessions.
9. Educators need to encourage and facilitate team
and group efforts in which “all” students participate and demonstrate
their ability to work with diversity of thought, negotiate agreements,
responsibly challenge existing procedures or concepts, interact within
acceptable social boundaries and build healthy relationships.
10. Educators need to challenge students to take the
more difficult subjects (science, math, language) that will prepare them
for the technology, knowledge and global jobs of the future.
11. Educators need to instill in students the concept
that they are not simply learning information to pass a test, but rather
they are learning skills in school that they will need to expand upon the
rest of their working lives. One of the most important messages teachers
can pass on to students is the fact they (the students) are “learning to
learn for a lifetime.”
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About the Author: Roger Ingbretsen RSS for Roger's articles - Visit Roger's website Roger is a member of the International Coaching Federation. Additionally, he has completed many professional training programs attaining numerous certifications, a few of which include: The Harvard Law School “win-win” negotiation process, the Center for Creative Leadership “360-Degree Feedback” evaluation process and “Coach the Coach” program, the Zenger Miller “Team Training Certification Seminar” and “Executive Coaching” practices from the Professional School of Psychology, California. He is also a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory.
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