Words, words between the lines of age (Neil Young)

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Seth Godin recently lamented the idea that silo subjects in the U.S. seem to exist independently of skills that he considers important. 

He poses the question: 

What would happen if we taught each skill separately? 

ObedienceManagementLeadership/cooperationProblem-solvingMindfulnessCreativityAnalysis

I thought about this for a week or so and wrote a reply to his blog:

Thought you may be interested to know that the NZ curriculum is based on five key competencies (skills) that are similar to 6 of your list. Obedience is not something that has a place in our curriculum. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) process in your country championed by Katie Novak does a lot of what you ask. Anyway - here are those 5 key competencies:  

• thinking.

• using language, symbols, and texts.

• managing self.

• relating to others.

• participating and contributing.

Those skills aren't addressed/taught separately but are incorporated into teaching programmes (please forgive the English spelling).

Not to say we've made much progress on multi-disciplinary approaches but that's next!

Warren

Seth's a great guy. Of course he wrote back! Saying: This is great, thank you!  

No, thank you, Seth!