Should we be teaching knowledge or skills? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
A head of English gets to the heart of the curriculum debate and shares his X Factor-based teaching resource on using solo taxonomy...

 

Because if you believe in what Ian Gilbert calls The Great Educational Lie (do well at school and you'll get a good job) then passing exams is fine. But if you believe that "to succeed in business you need to break the rules" then we have a responsibility to teach content in a way that also teaches skills, dispositions and competencies needed to make our children indispensible in an uncertain future.