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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2020
Fueled by exponential advances in technology, the world will change more in the next few decades than in all of human history, futurist Thomas Frey says. Community college leaders will have to think beyond traditional structures such as semester-length courses and two-year degree programs, designing micro-learning experiences that better match…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Role, Educational Needs, Educational Change
Council of the Great City Schools, 2023
English learners (ELs) are one of America's fastest-growing student groups, and their numbers are most concentrated in the country's Great Cities. In addition, the academic needs of these school children are complex and varied, especially as they are developing knowledge of multiple language systems. This document is continued evidence of how…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Skills, Skill Development, Reading Instruction
Gerrard, Hannah – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
The Productivity Commission's work on 'new models of tertiary education' houses the latest iteration of a discourse around 'transferable skills' at tertiary level that has deep implications for how we conceive of the purpose and value of tertiary education. Skills are increasingly located at the centre of conceptions of graduate outcomes, rather…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Needs, Skill Development
Sze Seau, Lee; Azman, Hazita – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This article introduces a classroom innovation, which was developed based on the principles of multiliteracies and scaffolding to enhance the mastery of multimodal skills of oral presentations among tertiary English as Second Language (ESL) students. The innovation, named the Responsive Multimodal Oral Presentation Pedagogy (RMO2P), was designed…
Descriptors: Speeches, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Boyles, Nancy – Educational Leadership, 2016
Today's state literacy standards and assessments demand deeper levels of knowledge from students. But many teachers ask, "What does depth of knowledge look like on these new, more rigorous assessments? How do we prepare students for this kind of thinking?" In this article, Nancy Boyles uses a sampling of questions from the PARCC and SBAC…
Descriptors: State Standards, Literacy, Knowledge Level, Educational Needs
Zholdoshalieva, Rakhat, Ed.; Teng, Jian Xi, Ed.; Ayyappan, Annapurna, Ed.; Tu, Boxuan, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2022
Poor literacy skills can result in exclusion and reduce people's capacity to participate in political, social, cultural and economic life. This is important for migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) who seek to live and work in a dignified, safe and fair environment and to be engaged members of their new communities. The…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education, Literacy Education, Refugees
Coe, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2018
This article sketches a vision of how primary education needs to be re-shaped to let schools focus more sharply on the development of children as individuals. Rapid social change requires a fundamental re-thinking of formal education and assessment. High-stakes testing must end. Greater weight must be given to the application of knowledge and…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Education, Educational Needs
Professional Interactions: Negotiation and Expression for Future Physicians and Healthcare Providers
Pan, Andrew J.; Pan, Aaron J.; Leary, Kimberlyn R. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The rapid pace of change in medicine requires doctors to be effective conflict mediators and negotiators in the clinical workplace, and a multitude of research connects strong physician-patient communication to improved patient outcomes. Disparities in such skills exist among medical students and professionals, and are neither taught nor evaluated…
Descriptors: Interaction, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Hanssen, Sarah – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Today's students prioritize employment; they want to be sure that there will be work for them upon graduation. Film and media students, in particular, need a long list of computer software and film equipment skills on their resumes, especially newer technologies that professionals in the workforce have not yet mastered. Consider, in this regard,…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Skill Development, Educational Needs, Capacity Building
Afterschool Alliance, 2018
Ensuring all children and youth thrive as they move through school and into their adult lives requires that they have the opportunity to develop the skills and competencies that will help them land their first job, navigate and overcome the challenges they will face, keep positive relationships, and make good decisions. While families are central…
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
Richardson, Will – Educational Leadership, 2016
Before the end of this decade, almost 5 billion people will carry mobile devices. Will Richardson asserts that because this technology creates ubiquitous, complex, immediate connections to the world, the most important skill is the skill of being able to learn. "Students moving into adulthood today," he writes, "need more than…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Minimum Competencies, Student Development, Basic Skills
Buckingham Shum, Simon; Crick, Ruth Deakin – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Many educational institutions are shifting their teaching and learning towards equipping students with knowledge, skills, and dispositions that prepare them for lifelong learning, in a complex and uncertain world. These have been termed "21st century competencies." Learning analytics (LA) approaches in general offer different kinds of…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Data Analysis, Research Tools, Lifelong Learning
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
NCVER's latest strategic plan outlines the vision and mission, and 7 strategic objectives and interrelated actions, that will direct company activities for the next 3 years. It also details the values that underpin our culture, our commitment to quality and integrity, measures of success against the objectives, and principles of practice and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Vocational Education, Interviews, Stakeholders
Schafer, Josephine Gatti – Teaching Public Administration, 2016
Recent research in public administration on governance, networks, and deliberative democracy, has highlighted the need to develop a skill set in graduates of Public Administration programs that prepares them for the interpersonal and relational challenges of the policy process. The skills needed to manage in increasingly complex and networked…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Public Administration Education, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
Beach, Crystal L. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
Today's classrooms often have a plethora of new ways of reading and writing entering the room, but too often these new ways of "doing" are disregarded and checked at the door. For this reason, one educator shares her journey through the mediated intersections of media, culture, and education. In this piece, she explores how literacy…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Literacy, Teaching Experience, Educational Change