Future Skillset

What are we teaching our kids for?

 

Why

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"Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace." Future Jobs Report, World Economic Forum.

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How

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Students need to align themselves as much with their skillsets as with subjects. The Foundation for Young Australians has identified 7 skillsets that will allow students to identify what their key attributes are and how they can use them as they move across jobs and careers during their life. This paradigm has greater relevance than the old subject-bound mindset. If students are to be more prepared for their future world they will need to be made aware of these skill clusters and how that will affect their job and careers. Seeing the transferability of their skills empowers students to develop a broad base to their abilities and to lessen focus on their relative ability in particular subjects.

Relationships and the conversations they enable are the centre of preparing students for their futures. By having honest discussions which focus on the individual student, their innate abilities and interests, real life learning will become more relevant for them.

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