SmartBlog on Education – Jo Kirchner
“The goal of every educator, and the purpose of our education system, is to prepare students for success in learning and life. This includes preparing students for successfully joining the workforce. Yet…research increasingly shows that students are leaving college without the essential social-emotional skills required to thrive in a business setting. Though employers have always valued skills like collaboration, patience and communication, our traditional education system seems to sidestep their importance. Conventional academic subjects, such as language and math remain critical…[but] academic knowledge is just one aspect of the foundation children need to be successful in school, in life and in their careers…Life skills and character development lessons should start during the first five years we know to be so critical for early brain development, and they should continue to be nurtured through all grade levels.”(more)