11. Top 10 Skills Businesses want:
Expressing own ideas.
Confidence working in groups.
Awareness of the BIGGER
picture.
Gather information and find
solutions.
Self motivation.
Written Communication.
Plan and organise.
Good time management.
75% of 2000 top executives
asked said the following were
the crucial skills for the future
world of work:
Critical thinking and problem
solving
Creativity
Collaboration
Communication
(survey done in 2010)
17. Try to use the language
Could you have
been more
imaginative?
How?
What have you
noticed about
how inquisitive
you’ve been?
Did you stick
with it when it
got difficult?
How did that
feel?
How have you
collaborated?
How did it help
you learn?
Many of the jobs of the future have not been invented yet.
Technology is changing the way we work.
Lots of jobs involve the use of technology. Lots of jobs are about information.
Things are more connected - new ways of communicating and doing business.
It’s no longer just what you know, it’s what you can do with what you know.
People are changing jobs more than once in their careers.
There are new jobs emerging.
The skills needed to do this jobs are all about the habits of mind.
The skills you will need to communicate with people, to collaborate with people and to access information are different.
So what’s the point of school? Sure it’s to get qualifications.
BUT it is also to develop the skills that will allow you to use knowledge and understanding and these skills will be as important if not more so than knowledge and understanding in the future.
You can get better at what you do - by being curious, by asking questions, by reflecting, by not giving up …
Your brain is not in a fixed state. You can exercise it. You can train it. You can challenge it. You do need to rest it - but think for yourself what have you done with your brain today - and the things you do are not science geography, English, Art, PE they are about the habits. These are the BEST ways to exercise your brain in science, geography, English, Art and PE.
Skills and qualities you can use in all of your subjects in school.
Whatever you are doing, whatever you are learning what you are doing will have all these things in common.
Want you to spend all of your day as doing as many of these things as possible.
Learning to know and do - getting better at doing exams and doing the qualifications needed to get you on to the next stage of your education.
We want you to become ‘masters’ at what you do - to be on a constant quest to get better - and that this is habit you’ll take into your future life.
You don’t stop learning when you leave school.
You might stop learning subjects in one or two hour slots - but you’ll continue learning and growing.
The habits are things you will take into the future with you.
So, as well as good levels, grades - good GCSEs, A levels, the habits are the things we want you to take into the future.
We know the two go together.
Keep an eye out - be inquisitive.
Watch out for the posters - look out for this wheel. They are tools you will be given the chance to use.
They help us to reflect on what helps us better learners - what helps us mark out what is different about us as a school - as a community.
