We talked about the skills that we want our children to leave our school with. We grouped them, analysed them, discussed each in depth. Next we put them into the following categories
- Skills
- Knowledge
- values and attitudes
It was incredible surprising to our staff that there were non of our ideas for skills that fit into the knowledge category. We decided that this was due toinformation of any kind being so instant and changeable, that the whole notion of knowledge is taking a back seat to the skills required to work with that knowledge. To be an on going learner, a life longer learner, we need the skills to select, analyse, intepret, make decisions about, compare, question, challenge etc the knowledge we gain.
So what do you think about that?
We have decided to go away and challenge our own thoughts on this....... we will keep you posted. :-)
