Back To Schoolhouse Time: “Think Beyond Grades – To Life”

Facebook Live session alongside Andreas Schleicher, head of the OECD Directorate for Education as well as Skills

by Marilyn Achiron, Editor, Directorate for Education as well as Skills

This back-to-school minute is a slap-up fourth dimension to select handgrip of a few minutes alongside Andreas Schleicher, caput of the Directorate for Education as well as Skills, to move his thoughts most preparing for – as well as succeeding inwards – the schoolhouse twelvemonth ahead.

In our Facebook LIVE interview yesterday, he said that “there’s ever something interesting happening inwards school”, as well as suggested that students “think beyond grades – to life”. Schleicher said of teaching that “there’s in all likelihood no tougher labor today”.

What is mutual to the best-performing countries inwards PISA? According to Schleicher, these countries “believe inwards the time to come to a greater extent than than inwards consumption today; they brand an investment inwards education”; “they believe inwards the success of every child”; as well as “they tin attract the most talented teachers to the most challenging classrooms”.

We equally good talked most pupil anxiety, shape size, homework as well as the kinds of skills students today demand to acquire.

Schleicher equally good hinted at some interesting data, to hold out published adjacent Tuesday inwards Education at a Glance 2017, on who studies what, as well as what that agency for work as well as profits afterward on.

Take a look!

Links

Education at a Glance (EAG) 2017 volition hold out launched on 12 September 2017 at 11:00 am, Paris time
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

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