Preparing Today’s Students for the Future Workforce — from rdene915.com by Rachelle Dené Poth
Excerpt:
Today’s high school students are the future of our workforce. Before long they will be in college or starting full-time jobs of their own. But how are today’s students preparing for their futures? What will the workforce look like when these students move on to the next stage of their lives?
Schools, districts, and even state education departments provide various programs for students to gain relevant work experience and gain necessary skills outside of the classroom.
What Are These Programs?
There are a number of school-based programs that support student growth through work such as…
Also relevant/see:
One Foot in the Future — from the BIG questions institute
As an excerpt from an email describing this new/free ebook, Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson write:
We need a fresh set of tools, frameworks, and lenses if we are to meet the future effectively.
With this new ebook, “One Foot in the Future,” we’re charting a different path forward, introducing readers to things like:
- Design Fiction – A tool to help us become “archeologists of the future” and help us
- Regenerative Learning – A lens that helps us see our work as it impacts all living things
- Schoolpunk – A movement and a community to help imagine the future of education together.
And much more.
Our sense is that there is growing appetite to get out of the traditional school box and to design a more aspirational future. This new ebook is a great starting point for anyone who wants to do just that.
