Gateway 2 nd Edition Preparing students for a life of tests and for the tests of life! David Spencer
The main aims of Gateway: • To help students succeed in school-leaving and external exams • To prepare students for life after school • To motivate students through interesting, real, content-rich texts throughout the course
How can we help students to be successful, not just in exams, but also in life after school?
What we learn at school is a waste of time! It has nothing to do with life after school!
‘ If you are not a teacher, when was the last time you needed, in your real life, to solve a quadratic equation? Or recall, without recourse to your iPad, the capital city of Mongolia? Or explain the difference between a terminal and a medial moraine, or a breve and a minim ?’ ‘ Educating Ruby: What our children really need to learn ’ Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas Crown House Publishing, 2015
‘ Did you know? Shift happens ’ – Fisch and McLeod YouTube ‘ Many of our students may end up doing jobs that don’t exist yet, with technologies that haven’t been invented, to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet .’ ‘ According to the US Department of Labor, today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs by the age of 38.’
Main Life Skills Area for Teenagers: A personal selection • PERSONAL WELL-BEING • PHYSICAL WELL-BEING • ICT • AUTONOMY/ENTERPRISE • SOCIAL SKILLS/CITIZENSHIP • THE WORLD AROUND YOU • ACADEMIC SKILLS • THE WORLD OF WORK • NUMERACY • MONEY AND FINANCE • ART AND CULTURE
English can be a perfect medium for including ‘ horizontal skills such as learning to learn, social and civic responsibility, initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness, and creativity.’
We can integrate Life Skills into our reading and listening texts, we can use them as the basis for oral and written work. Life Skills give us highly useful, interesting and relevant content, allowing us to teach things that are relevant to our students’ present lives, immediate future, and the long term too.
Oooops!!!! Some evidence that teenage students really do need help with Exams and with Life Skills
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