Did you know that the United States is lagging behind other countries in terms of education quality? Many other countries are improving their quality of education while the US’s is staying the same. Active learning environments can be implemented into schools to help us solve this problem. These environments that teach 21st century skills more than facts and figures should be implemented into our schools more because they will make it easier for kids to succeed in school, they will help our children survive in the real world, and because the United States is lagging behind other countries in educational standards. The first reason why our kids should be learning in active learning environments is because they can help kids do well in school.
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21st century skills, which include critical thinking, creativity, and interpersonal communication, but can also include technology skills, are often searched for by employers (“Teaching 21st Century Skills”. Online. Internet.). These skills are very valuable, and schools should help their students’ future by teaching them these skills that are often useful in the real world. It is important to acknowledge that some skills require facts and figures to be learned, and that some people may think that the memorization of certain information is required to build a sturdy foundation for learning these 21st century skills. However, facts and figure should not be needed for a sturdy foundation for these skills if the memorized information is not going to be used in the …show more content…
Our country is staying the same in educational quality while others are improving their quality of teaching (Enrique Zapatero, Sharad Maheshwari, Jim Chen). We should try our best to catch up with them by changing our schools so that they teach 21st century skills. The other countries that are ahead of our education level are mostly using active learning environments, so we should too and help our kids’ future. Although this supposed active learning environment seems like a good idea, some skeptics may think that it would be too hard to implement into our schools. However, turning our current classrooms into active learning environments would be simple. Although it would require changing the methods that teachers assess a student’s skills (Enrique Zapatero, Sharad Maheshwari, Jim Chen) all that we would need to do is change our schools’ teacher’s methods of teaching and hopefully transition our classrooms to be more fit to the topic the teacher is teaching (“Who Said School is Boring?”. Online.
21st century skills, which include critical thinking, creativity, and interpersonal communication, but can also include technology skills, are often searched for by employers (“Teaching 21st Century Skills”. Online. Internet.). These skills are very valuable, and schools should help their students’ future by teaching them these skills that are often useful in the real world. It is important to acknowledge that some skills require facts and figures to be learned, and that some people may think that the memorization of certain information is required to build a sturdy foundation for learning these 21st century skills. However, facts and figure should not be needed for a sturdy foundation for these skills if the memorized information is not going to be used in the …show more content…
Our country is staying the same in educational quality while others are improving their quality of teaching (Enrique Zapatero, Sharad Maheshwari, Jim Chen). We should try our best to catch up with them by changing our schools so that they teach 21st century skills. The other countries that are ahead of our education level are mostly using active learning environments, so we should too and help our kids’ future. Although this supposed active learning environment seems like a good idea, some skeptics may think that it would be too hard to implement into our schools. However, turning our current classrooms into active learning environments would be simple. Although it would require changing the methods that teachers assess a student’s skills (Enrique Zapatero, Sharad Maheshwari, Jim Chen) all that we would need to do is change our schools’ teacher’s methods of teaching and hopefully transition our classrooms to be more fit to the topic the teacher is teaching (“Who Said School is Boring?”. Online.