DNA – Averil Nunes
“IQ is giving space to EQ in the unlikeliest of places: corporate corridors. Today, head hunters are looking closely at values like integrity, cultural fitment and adaptability before hiring the right talent. Educational institutes are now taking it upon themselves to impart these skills to the potential workforce of the future…”Children need to be confident, creative, flexible and adaptive learners who can flourish in a rapidly-evolving world. They need to be risk takers who welcome error and complexity as indicators of progress. They need to be self-starting, self-managing, self-evaluating, relentlessly curious, cognitively agile, networked, collaborative, and of course, tech-savvy,” says Neil A. McWilliam, head of school at Oberoi International School. Now, that is clearly a tall order. But how does one teach things that veer on abstraction? “It is misleading to say that we ‘teach’ them. They have to be embedded throughout the learning process, along with everything else children need to be future-ready,” McWilliam clarifies.”(more)