The following is a guest post from a teacher who got in touch through the contact section of this blog. It sheds some light on why young teachers feel the lure of 21st century skills and the frustration when they start to realise what the evidence actually shows. The author prefers to remain anonymous:
As a (young) teacher, it is a great feeling when recognition falls your way. I’m a middle/senior maths and science teacher at a rural school in Australia and I was certainly short of any positive recognition in my first couple of years! However, I recently had the pleasure of having my work featured in a partnership wide newsletter. Without going into too much detail; it was a photo followed by a short explanation of a project I developed. The project involved senior school students interacting with junior school students as a way of promoting engagement. The winning edge that…
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