At this very moment, millions of educators are grappling with the new realities of teaching in the midst of a pandemic: long periods of disruption, a lack of resources to meet changing needs, and absent or disengaged students whose loss of learning will prove extremely difficult to overcome as the weeks go by.
However, education has always faced complex problems. Equity and access to quality education are not the mainstay of learning for the majority of the world's population, and there have been more than enough examples to demonstrate how this sector has struggled to reconfigure itself in the context of the 21st century.
In recent months, we expected schools to resist the acceleration of these problems, but the exhaustion of mere survival has begun to show. We know what's not working, which is why the time has come to make this fundamental change and create new, sustainable routes to quality education.
Value and success
There has always been an apparent discrepancy between learning in traditional school curricula and the skills required to thrive in the real world. Academic “success” still relies heavily on outdated assessment methods that generally fail to take into account what learning actually is.
However, there are good examples of how schools have begun to change this mindset. Rather than focusing on arbitrary measures of learning, the ‘London Interdisciplinary School focuses on the development of global skills which, in turn, create intellectually curious problem-solvers capable of dealing with the complexity of the real world.
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