Aquecimento global

The Global Achievement Gap and the Future of Education

Proposal:
The purpose of this proposal is to address the challenges and implications of retaining and engaging a growing, multicultural, multi-religious, multifaceted student population. To increase retention and engagement, there must be continued focus on building successful learning infrastructures, and more effort is needed to identify students without the skills to create, manage, integrate, and evaluate information in an ever-challenging academic environment. This proposal will provide insight on how educators can provide students with the necessary tools to acquire these skills. Without these dynamic social skills, all the resources, hardware and access in the world will not decrease the existing gaps currently defined by social as well as digital and technological divides. Summary:
Teaching, learning and community building have been, and still are, major facets of a successful school program. In today’s setting, there is a need for not only strengthened cohesion and communication between educators and administration but also a need for autonomy and shared leadership within each organization. The separation and isolation between these facets is quickly becoming a notion of the past as technologies and pedagogical ideas enable broader lines and forms of discussion and collective understanding. Educational reform and progression require vision and insight into the needs of students, administration, faculty and staff. As student profiles and learning styles change, it is important for schools, curriculum and leadership to address and assess these needs to better educate our students and provide the essential survival skills needed to close the ever-growing achievement gap.

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“The Global Achievement Gap is the gap between what we are teaching and testing in our schools, even in the ones that are most highly-regarded, versus the skills all students will need for