These schools represent a new approach to second - level education — developing a welcoming, inclusive school community that enables young people to meet their full potential in society and focussing on
the lifelong learning needs of students.
Not exact matches
I didn't know anything about open education philosophy, but as soon as I read the school's literature — the emphasis on diversity,
student choice, and the development
of creativity and a
lifelong passion for
learning — I knew Piedmont was exactly where I
needed to be.
Increasingly, in a world where knowledge itself is constantly growing and evolving,
students need to develop a set
of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions, or general capabilities that apply across
learning area content and equip them to be
lifelong learners able to operate with confidence in a complex, information - rich, globalised world.
If we agree that these types
of learning skills are necessary to develop
lifelong learners, then teachers
need solid examples
of exactly how to teach
students these types
of skills.
Students and the community
need to understand the benefits
of VET, how VET can support their
lifelong learning and how VET can serve as a bridge for employment and further studies.
KA
students engage in
learning activities that promote
lifelong learning, differentiate instruction to meet individual
student needs, require
students to collaborate with others, apply their knowledge and skills in new and creative ways with the use
of technology, reason critically, and value the responsibility
of digital citizenship / decision making.
Uncertain
of how to move themselves forward as a project - based learner, we
needed strategies to help
students strive for independence and
lifelong learning.
Learning to think critically and to make decisions based on those thinking skills is a
lifelong pursuit; even traditional - age 18 -24-year-old college
students do not always possess the complex analytical skills that allow them to balance their own
needs with the
needs of others or to analyze the extent to which an «expert's» perspectives are well - informed.