Survival Skills for Life

In the article “Educational Leadership” by Tony Wagner the topic of how students are learning and preparing for the 21st century is brought up and threw all of the research done, it seems like Tony Wagner is for this preparation. The biggest reason that makes me believe this are the paragraphs on the 7 survival skills. “Critical Thinking and Problem solving”, “Collaboration and Leadership”, “Agility and Adaptability”, “Initiative and Entrepreneurialism”, “Effective Oral and Written Communication”, “Accessing and Analyzing Information”, and “Curiosity and Imagination”. The author expands on all of these topics and is able to explain how they will help us in the world. To me though the biggest of the survival skills is Curiosity and Imagination because no matter what your job is or where you go to school, Curiosity and Imagination will help you. Curiosity helps you answer questions; while Imagination just helps with everything and makes you be more creative.
Also in this article the author expands on the idea of before students are taught these skills, first we need to redefine excellent instruction. I think what he means by this is that we can’t always just go to class sit down, take notes and get ready for a test. It’s ok to do that every once in a while but what really needs to happen is students need to get more involved with their learning. We need more energy in assignments as in move around a little, maybe make the learning interactive instead of taking notes all day. Also if we could work in teams that way if we get stuck, we can get help from a partner. These are some thoughts about Tony Wagner’s article “Educational Leadership”.