The Huffington Post – Katherine Bihr, Ed.D.
“A recent report conducted by Georgetown University looking at job growth included a section on 21st Century Competencies needed for jobs in 2020. What piqued my interest was a list of skills projected to be highly valued in high-wage, high-growth, high-demand jobs. Among them – active listening, speaking, reading comprehension, critical thinking, writing, monitoring, coordination, social perceptiveness, judgment and decision making, complex problem-solving, active learning, time management, mathematics, negotiation and science. So what are the implications for STEM? STEM impacts every area of our life. Science is around us daily as we interact with the complexity of the natural world. Technology shapes our day-to-day…Having young people competent in STEM helps build communities and shape nations. Educators, parents and community leaders must all shoulder the responsibility to adequately prepare our children for the demands of the future. Simply put, it is vital that we teach these skills so that future generations are prepared for jobs that don’t exist yet and are prepared to solve problems that we don’t know are coming.”(more)