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Expert Q&A | Seema G. Pothini What should educators do to address the needs of an increasingly diverse community and foster inclusive schools? I believe that educators need to first candidly assess their school to see if it is indeed an inclusive climate where all students are engaged and learning. For example, how much time is spent celebrating diversity rather than [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Julie Landsman What should educators do to address the needs of an increasingly diverse community and foster inclusive schools? I once asked a fine teacher I knew what the three most important things in connecting to students of all kinds were for her. She answered, “Relationship, relationship, relationship.” At the heart of providing a safe, challenging environment [...] |
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Expert Q&A | John Hunter How important is diversity and respect for people of other cultures in today’s environment? Our reality today is diversity. Diverse worldviews and heritages are now a relative fact of existence. In today’s world, through the ease of travel, media and all forms of connection, we can now more easily see and experience the lives of [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Craig Kielburger What is the key to fostering diversity and stopping bullying, discrimination, hate and intolerance in our diverse school communities? The Dalai Lama has said that the greatest challenge of our time is that we’re raising a generation of passive bystanders. At the root of accepting difference, celebrating diversity and prosocial action is compassion. We live [...] |
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Expert Q&A | David C. Onley As the main theme of your term of office is accessibility, what should educators do to address the needs of their diverse school communities? The definition I have been using for accessibility is that which enables people to achieve their full potential. Accessibility is much more than wheelchair parking lots, ramps and things like that. [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Paul Martin With the growing concerns about discrimination, racism, homophobia, religious intolerance and bullying in our diverse school communities, what should educators do to foster inclusive schools that accept and respect difference? Schools have a huge responsibility because they are there to teach both curriculum and an understanding of decency. Good teachers are also major role models [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Anne-Marie Mediwake CBC News anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake shares her thoughts with Dialogue Online about what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. Read more… |
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Expert Q&A | Rob McEwen Rob McEwen, Order of Canada recipient and gold entrepreneur, shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. |
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Expert Q&A | Juliana Rotich Juliana Rotich, co-founder and executive director of revolutionary crowdsourcing web platform Ushahidi, shares her thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. |
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Expert Q&A | Shawn A-in-chut Atleo Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. |
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Expert Q&A | David Suzuki David Suzuki shares his message on the urgency of protecting the planet — now. |
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Expert Q&A | Drew Dudley What key 21st-century skills or new literacies can better prepare youth for the future? I think the key thing we need to do is cultivate a belief in our young people that they can be extraordinary based on what they’re great at and love to do, not if they learn to do what “the market” [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Michael Zwaagstra What 21st-century skills can better prepare students for the future? The most important 21st-century skills that our students need are solid background knowledge about the world around them, good reading and writing skills, and an understanding of basic mathematics. Of course, these are skills that were essential in the 20th and 19th centuries as well. [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Alex Sarian How can arts education help better prepare students for the future? Well, there are two different things: There is arts education and there is arts integration. Arts education certainly lends itself to kids developing (creative and artistic) skills, but I think arts integration is really where those two things come together. Having a space for [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Gwen Colman What new literacies will better prepare students for the future? With the Genuine Progress Index, the measurements we do on educational attainment are about what makes an educated person. So that’s beyond just being in school, and it goes beyond the standardized testing and school dropout rates that are usually measured to show whether education [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Daniel R. Woolf What key skills or new literacies will today’s students need in order to prepare them for higher education and for success in the future? Students need to develop cultural awareness and relationship-building skills that help them work and learn with people from various backgrounds. They need to demonstrate initiative, a commitment to community and an [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Marie Battiste What 21st-century skills can better prepare youth for the future as leaders, innovators and other positive role models in society? Future leaders will need to have: • Multiple literacies (verbal, written, artistic and technological) • Multiple or at minimum two languages (two official and one indigenous), and understanding of more than one knowledge system as [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Cary List What skills or literacies will today’s students need to prepare them for the future? Most importantly, to excel, I believe that students should have a respectful relationship with money. They should have a solid understanding of budgeting, debt and credit, and should understand the impact that today’s financial decisions may have on tomorrow. An awareness [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Sherry Turkle What key 21st-century skills can better prepare students for the future? More than anything, students need to know how to think synthetically, analytically and critically, understanding the difference between the real and simulated worlds. They need to understand how simulations are built, and their strengths and limitations. One way to do this is to teach [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Samuel G. Freedman What skills or qualities must a teacher possess to be a positive role model in the 21st century? I don’t think there is anything so unique or brand new about what it takes to be a great teacher. It’s high standards that you yourself have to exemplify, relentless work ethic and a really deep concern [...] |
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Expert Q&A | Karyn Gordon What key 21st-century skills can better prepare youth for the future? One of the main things we’re finding is that what we really need to do is to put more focus on developing what’s called emotional intelligence, commonly referred to as EQ (emotional quotient), involving recognizing, understanding and managing emotions and feelings. Self-discipline, or delaying [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Trina Innes What is one thing everyone can do to help the environment? Each and every time you make a purchase, you have the ability to influence the environment. Buy products that minimize negative environmental impacts. Consider the way a product is manufactured, transported, used, recycled or disposed of. What could a school do to reduce its [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Stacey Caillier and Rob Riordan How can schools support teachers so they can keep abreast of the latest teaching techniques? It’s less about techniques and more about creating a culture of collaboration where teachers can pursue their passions, share their plans and dilemmas, get into each other’s classrooms and reflect on teaching and learning together. At High Tech High, for [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Simon Jeynes How can schools become more efficient? There are only two ways for schools to become more efficient: for teachers to teach more students per class, thus increasing income per salary; for teachers to teach more classes, thus increasing workload per salary. This is still assuming the 20th-century model of one teacher/one class/one classroom/one fixed period [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Per Ledin How can independent and private schools be made more financially accessible? In Sweden, there are public (85 per cent market share), independent (13 per cent) and private schools (two per cent). Independent schools are privately owned but financed—in the same way as Sweden’s public schools—by a tax-financed public school voucher (tuition free). All parents are [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Patrick Bassett How can schools become more efficient? School leaders should evaluate their board composition and structure. What skill sets will you need in the next five years? Are your committees and task forces the right ones for the needs of the school? A good way to assess objectively one’s board efficiencies is to compare board data [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Mike Lipkin How can independent schools achieve success through pre-eminence? Pre-eminence it is not just about being the best; it is about being recognized as the best. What is your discipline? What is the core your school stands for? The moment I go outside these areas is when I am being less pre-eminent. It is important to [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Jeffrey Beard What can be done today to help students become global citizens? At an IB conference in 2007, Jean-François Rischard, the World Bank’s vice-president for Europe, described two forces at work that will continue to change our world at accelerating rates. The first force he referred to as a “demographic explosion,” where an increase in population [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Don Tapscott What can be done today to help students become global citizens? They’re already off to a good start as they are part of the first-ever global generation, courtesy of the Internet. And my research shows that this has given them a common outlook, regardless of what country they live in. They are the first generation [...] |
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Expert Q & A | Anne-Marie Kee What skills are companies of the new economy looking for? According to research conducted last year by the McKinsey management consulting company, 70 per cent of the executives surveyed named innovation as one of their top three priorities for driving growth. The report also revealed that the vast majority of these senior people lamented that [...] |
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TABS Conference 2010 Highlights I just returned from The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) annual conference in Baltimore, MD. Three days of workshops, sessions and networking with approximately 750 attendees from nearly 190 boarding schools in the USA and Canada (10 Canadian boarding schools were represented). For Our Kids Media, it was an opportunity to bring more awareness to [...] |
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