Question 2

What do schools need to do to prepare students for the 21st Century? Discuss your

opinions.

Now, we are in 21st century. As we find out that more and more people are facing

difficulties in this modern era. Our schools are not well produce pupils with ability to

face the challenges in 21st century. Schools are expected to prepare students for a

complex and rapidly changing world. In addition to teaching subject content, schools are

expected to develop young people who are information and media literate; critical

thinkers and problem solvers; communicators and team players. Schools are seen to have

an important role in enhancing wellbeing so that students can realise their full potential,

cope with the stresses of life and participate fully in this 21st Century.

Students’ lack of motivation, and often disengagement, reflects the inability of

education systems to connect content to real-world experience. This is also critically

important to economic and social needs, not only students’ wishes. There is a profound

need to rethink the significance and applicability of what is taught, and to strike a far

better balance between the conceptual and the practical.

In order to prepare our pupils for 21st century, school curriculum should apply

content to real-world applications that call for students to solve problems, think

creatively, and work with others to develop solutions. And try to leads students to a deep

understanding of the content through a carefully crafted set of questions that demand

answers that are based on evidence from text. Schools also have to engage students in

collaborative groups to conduct investigations, discuss and share learnings, and create

products that demonstrate what was learned. Furthermore, schools should ask students to

think metacognitively about what they have learned and the process they used to learn it.

Besides that, as we are in 21st century, the use of technology apparently is one of the key to prepare our pupils. School can use technology as a tool for learning and for connecting students globally to develop deep understanding of key ideas and concepts. With the helps of technology, school can gives students the license and the responsibility to craft their own learning paths and direct their own learning, and teacher will play role as a facilitator or guide offering when needed.

Personality of a pupils also hold an important key to be sucessful in the 21st century. We are now facing an increasingly challenging world: As complexities increase, humankind is rediscovering the importance of teaching character traits, such as performance-related traits (adaptability, persistence, resilience) and moral-related traits (integrity, justice, empathy, ethics). The challenges for public school systems are similar to those for skills, with the extra complexity of accepting that character development is also becoming an intrinsic part of the mission, as it is for private schools.

In conclusion, this is an exciting and amazing time for the role of school. Even in the midst of titanic changes in curriculum and assessment, there has never been a time when so many have been moving in the same direction. With the knowledge of the skills necessary to be successful in the 21st century, we have a “perfect storm” of ideas to use in creating an educational system that will truly prepare students for their future and not the world of our past.

Intoduction

- Teacher – teach students – read, write, calculate

- Work in teams-think critically

- Prepare – productive – successful lives – adulthood

Body 1

- Critical thinking

- Develop skills – problems – different angles – solution

- Teaacher – present situation – students developed – applied to help – figure out

problems

- Multiple solution - creative

- Example – in Mathematics

Body 2

- Collaboration

- Ability to lead others – become successful

- Teamwork – groups – splitting tasks

- Different task roles – manager, workers, accountant

- Putting task together – at the end

Body 3

- Curiosity and imaginative

- Evry task – need students – curious – iamginative

- Encourage – develope skills – apply creative – purposely

Conclusion

-consider possibilty – 21st century classroom

-schools more than places – preparing students

-next level education – lifelong success