Advancing Students’ Global Skills By Will Rixon, Teacher Training and Author Relationship Manager, Macmillan Education, UK
Q&A: ADVANCING STUDENTS’ GLOBAL SKILLS by John Cruft and Steve Tulk
In this Q&A session, John Cruft talks about the top 10 skills that will be required by employers in 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. Skills such as innovation, problem-solving, leadership, technology use, resilience, etc. are certainly not new to the work space, but ELT has been revolutionised in the past decade in realising that the language classroom is an ideal environment to develop these skills. In this Q&A, Steve Tulk and John Cruft answer a range of questions on how to integrate these skills into your class.
WHAT ARE STUDENTS’ GLOBAL SKILLS? What we call Global Skills have been called several things in the past decade. Some call them 21 st Century Skills , others call them Life Competencies , while others refer to them as Life Skills . To me, they all encompass the same definition: a set of skills that people need to prosper in their careers and enjoy contented lives. They include skills like global citizenship, critical thinking, social and emotional awareness, learner autonomy and creativity.
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In this section we will look at many of the different parts that make up Global Skills, all of which explore the what, why and how of each.
In addition to all the materials in this handbook, there is a dedicated page on the Macmillan Education website dedicated to training teachers to advance their students’ Global Skills.
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