Real-World Skills in the Classroom

Amanda Ripley is a journalist and author of Emerson who is the author of "the smartest children in the world - and how they do it".

Every year, about a quarter of American teenagers graduate from high school. The other 20 countries currently have high graduation rates in high school. This is pointless. Among all the countries in the world, the United States is one of the worst places to drop out of high school. The unemployment rate of the recent dropout rate is 50%. Without a diploma, you can not work as a garbage collector in New York, you can not join the Air Force.

So, why so many American children are still leaving school? One reason is that they did not see this. In a large-scale survey targeting high school dropouts, about half of people adopted a boring course as the main reason for their decision. Four-fourths say they want to have more opportunities to learn in the real world at high school.

This is not about school life. This is about how to challenge the related school every day.

After spending one year with three American teenagers who had opportunities to attend high school in a country with a high graduation rate, we began to think that children could admit to school It was. But this is not about the school's term. This is about how to challenge the related school every day.

The big feature of P - Tech is that the school has direct connection to an interesting work. Graduates are the first people to work at IBM. Students can move at their own pace and many people are expected to acquire Associate Degrees within 6 years. Teenagers like adults have the opportunity to prove the proficiency of certain subjects and skills and go on to the next.

In contrast, most American children experienced a very slow, expensive and turbulent transition from high school to work. Compared with students from other countries, most of them are not participating in high-quality vocational training courses that are tightly integrated with industry needs. US specialized students spend less than a quarter of their working hours at work, but colleagues in Switzerland, Norway and Denmark spend half of the lessons at work in the workplace.

This vivid experience will help children look forward to the future; they can connect the relationship between what they do at school and how interesting their life is. As an exchange student to the United States, an international student to Finland stated, "Finnish students think that they think that they are beneficial, not acceptable."

Decades ago, the United States had a good reason to give up job vocational high school. There were too many second warehouses for ethnic minorities and low-income children. But now all the decent jobs require a higher level of skill, so we have a chance to do it. American employers need sophisticated skills, but American teenagers need more interesting jobs. If you gather up quickly, good

Relationship between classroom and real world learning: Work based learning links the knowledge students learned at school with the skills and knowledge necessary for careers in the real world. Students apply knowledge in the classroom to problems in the real world. This is an important element of the newly adopted common core state standard. Student completion rate is high: Work-based courses are linked with career themes through community colleges and 4-year programs. Some of the reasons many students quit high school and university courses are because they can not see what they are learning and what they can do in the day. They can say, "Why do I have to learn this?" A work-based learning program can reduce the dropout rate by combining student learning and career development (NAF, 2011).

Educators nationwide are preparing students for university students, careers and students to succeed in everyday life, find ways to make them engage in the classroom, give them real experience and evaluate their life skills I will. In-depth learning provides students with skills including critical thought, communication, collaboration, and learning methods of learning. Building such a learning environment requires a completely new school building, a multi-million dollar subsidy, or permission from policy makers. This is a common myth. However, many of the most effective educators add more detailed learning by creatively adjusting existing school resources and functions in a cost-effective way or in an inexpensive way . Like the popular "Life Hacker", these creative "school hackers" help educators improve efficiency and efficiency, and to create an attractive and rich learning environment for students I will use the resources around them.