Preparing Students for the 21st century

[arsinyk]

Persisting

Sticking to a task until it is completed. This includes structures and strategies to attack problems when the answer is not immediately known.

Managing impulsivity

Thinking before you act. This involves creating plans of attack and understanding options and final output before starting

Comments

[acern]

Wait, are they going to try to teach us these "habits of mind"? Teach us to have a sense of humor, whut? >>

[arsinyk]

Well, they could try to teach us to have an "appropriate" sense of humor, which must avoid:
a. all sexual/bathroom or otherwise rude or vulgar subject matter
b. any discriminatory or insensitive comments about anyone based on intelligence level or perceived intelligence level, social skills, personality quirks, disabilities, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

(And yes, they will be testing us on it.)

And: it's been so long since I've seen you! ;___; We should get together sometime, since clearly I'm not going to be coming after school. >>; *will try to remember to come by sometime this week...*

[acern]

We'll just show up at your house at some point? :D

[arsinyk]

That works. ^^ Who's we? You and Katherine?

*icon love*

[cbizkit]

I kind of skimmed, but what comes to mind is that YES, I absolutely NEED an economics/money-management class because I have NO IDEA how to handle money or what you even do with it, and am going to be POOR. :P

(A lot of the other stuff is creepy, though... leadership? everything must be exemplary? I mean, what are they going to do if it's not exemplary, give the students detention until they're EXCELLENT?)

[arsinyk]

XD Me too.

Yeah, a bunch of the actual suggestions are kind of ... completely impractical. "It would be so awesome if everything were perfect!" "Wow, insightful."