Giving Students What They Need

It’s a brutal reality when we realize we are not giving students the tools they need to be successful. When the world outside of the classroom is moving faster than the curriculum, it’s the students who suffer in exchange. Acknowledging the fact that as students are progressing through their education new job positions are constantly being created and when they graduate skill sets will be required that never existed before. Education is a constant battle of how are we as teachers attempting to expect the unexpected and prepare students for a world we don’t even live in yet. 

I also struggle with my own pedagogy with regards to if P-12 should be responsible for preparing students to go to work or if school should be focused on teaching students to be learners, critical thinkers, and curious minds beyond just what is “useful.” So my challenge is: how do we do both simultaneously? How do we use technology that is current and developing while also still interacting with the task of making great minds not just good employees.