The focus is now on competency-based education! How do we do this??

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

When the industrial revolution took hold, people started leaving their farms and homes in droves, flocking to the cities to find new work. Factories were born as was a system of free education for the masses to feed the production line’s insatiable appetite for workers.

A century or so later, ChatGPT 4 has burst onto the scene marking a new revolution (which actually began, unnoticed, a decade or so ago).

Do not live in silos! Introduce relevance to our teaching and learning. “WE TEACH STUDENTS NOT SUBJECTS”.

The agency imbued by high-performance learning equips, empowers and enables students to test what’s possible and act with an increased sense of purpose that can guide them to thrive in their world. We in schools must cultivate the development of this individual agency within the interdependence of relationships and positive group culture. We need to acknowledge the impact that the collective experience, inspired by the challenge of a set of agreed standards for excellence, and influenced by leadership that constructs and tells a compelling narrative from yesterday to today to tomorrow, can have on the courage and conviction of individuals to engage in an ongoing process of growth in the adaptive expertise and self-efficacy that are characterised by the purpose, persistence and reflection of high-performance learning.

.The future of education lies in empowering young learners to embrace and develop their uniquely human qualities – those unlikely to ever be replaced by technology. The World Economic Forum refers to the teaching and learning of this set of abilities, skills, attitudes and values as “Education 4.0”, a framework developed through deep and broad consultation with education experts from schools, non-profits, education ministries and the private sector and refined over the course of several previous publications. Look at their latest report by downloading the file.