Establishing longer-term projects with creative practitioners from outside of your school gives students greater opportunities to build skills such as collaboration and critical thinking, says this international educator
Across education there has been a dawning realisation that schools must bring out the “human competencies” – sometimes called “soft skills” – in young people.
Collaboration, creativity, empathy, judgement and critical thinking – all are recognised as vital for young people to cultivate. The issue, though, is schools are still judged much more on areas and subjects that are more easily assessed, standardised and ranked.
Those things matter, too, but if we really want to ensure that young people have the adaptability for the modern world, we need to find a way to give space to both.
