What should your child learn now to make a successful career in the future
Forming / / December 19, 2019
School education - the most important social institution that provides fundamental knowledge. Now a major role is played by information technology and automation, which means that schools have to adapt to new realities. We found out what items should introduce into the school curriculum, as well as asked the founder of the recruiting agency Pruffi Alena Vladimir is a modern school should change.
To enter items in the school based on the current labor market is dangerous. The average student will enter the labor market for at least five years. Therefore, to introduce items to school need to prospect, with "gorochkoy".
The difficulty lies in the fact that when the student will enter the labor market, its basic education severely outdated. As well as becoming obsolete, for example, our basic education during the next scientific and technological revolution, which occurred at the beginning of the XXI century. Progress develops irregular, accumulated a critical base of knowledge and discovery.
Alain Vladimir
What to teach
basic programming
Chat bots, Drones, VR, Internet of Things and other great technology does not appear to no programming. The demand for programmers in the labor market is large, many companies are trying to go to the Internet during the crisis and automate processes to keep pace with the times.
Current school informatics course is clearly not designed for today. Children from an early age know how to handle a computer, surf the Internet and perform other basic actions. It is necessary to bring the curriculum into line and introduce basic programming course.
Of course, not all children in the future will become IT professionals. But at least understand how to construct these processes need. Many universities now offer special courses in programming for students, there are many online training programs. Why not enter the course at the school on a regular basis?
In the West, I think about it a few years ago. For example, in the article Should Everybody Learn to Code? ( "Should I learn every programming") discusses the widespread introduction of programming in American schools.
"Everyone should learn computational thinking (mathematical thinking. - Approx. Ed.). It develops abstract thinking and teaches to divide tasks into small parts. Programming - one of the ways to acquire this skill, "- said Jeannette Wing (Jeannette Wing), corporate vice president of Microsoft Research.
Alain VladimirIt is necessary to teach the program, especially at the primary level, even if you are a girl and humanities will never be a programmer and engineer. This is a very systematized thinking, gives an understanding of systemic and structural, and the world in which we live, it is very important.
What to do
- «1C» conducts basic programming courses for schoolchildren all over Russia. Try to write your child's back.
- Use our instructions for those who want to learn to program. In it, we were told where to begin and where else can you learn the basic things.
- Review compilation educational platforms for learning programming.
Fundamentals of financial and legal literacy
In 2015, the Russian The National Agency for Financial Studies (NAFI) examined the level of financial literacy of teenagers. Experts have found out that Russian teenagers have a vague idea of loans and deposits. Only in the older age group (14-17 years) were able to define the terms "input" and "savings book", but almost no one was able to explain what the deposit.
According to experts, such a low level of literacy is linked to the fact that parents do not have the proper financial management skills. According to a survey conducted by NAFI in 2015, 34% of adult Russians rated their level of financial literacy as unsatisfactory, even 46% - as satisfactory.
According to Standard & Poor's survey, only 38% of Russians are financially literate. This is the level of countries such as Zimbabwe and Mongolia. On this occasion, we even made testWhich will help determine your level of financial literacy.
It is clear that schools need to introduce the basics of financial literacy and to explain to children what money, how to dispose of them, that is a saving and credit, which is the interest rate, exchange rate and other.
With financial literacy is closely related and legal literacy. Few know the codes and the names of the head of the constitution. It is necessary to teach the application of things that will be useful to children in the future: drawing up contracts and other types of documents, basic rules of registration of insurance, loans and deposits.
Alain VladimirLegal and financial literacy, of course, also important. I have defined it, rather, as a civil consciousness, which is expressed in the legal, financial components and tolerance. It is the ability to live in a diverse society, and not perceive it as a threat and as a form of violence. The school can provide and the financial and legal literacy, basics of tolerance.
What to do
- Download the free book "Kids and money"Which will acquaint the child with the basics of personal finance.
- If your child - a teenager, ask him to take a course of Sberbank "Finance just».
- read article Layfhakera on the topic of personal finance, many of which will be useful and understandable to children.
learning to learn
Now Russian education a lot of criticism, but it remains at a high level. According to Alena Vladimir, Russian school gives good fundamental knowledge, but bad teach to learn. What does it mean? This means that in Russian schools a little explain how to acquire knowledge, process and analyze information. It is especially important to teach children to find non-obvious sources of knowledge.
In English, there is a concept intellectual curiosity. Its essence is to teach the child not just cram the material and understand it and answer the question "why?". In general, similar in meaning to it, says Alain Vladimir about.
Alain VladimirMost importantly, what it is necessary to teach students - to learn. In fact, the Russian education gives a very good fundamental knowledge. In this sense, we're really ahead of the rest.
But, unlike European and American schools, we do not teach to learn. This means we do not learn to look critically at the knowledge, do not teach to acquire knowledge, particularly of non-obvious sources. The ability to learn - this is most important, because today's students will live in a different world, and the ability to adapt, to learn quickly on the basis of the fundamental knowledge, that is - it is a very important.
What to do
- Albert Einstein said: "I have no special talents. I'm just very curious. " This once again confirms that your child can succeed if it is curious. Introduce him principles one of the greatest scientists of the XX century, perhaps they did zamotiviruyut.
- Children like to ask a variety of questions to adults. Respond to them correctlySo as not to extinguish the fire of curiosity, but at the same time not to disclose all the cards. Let your child carries out its own research.
presentation skills
To be able to provide information to sell yourself in the broadest sense - is very important. It is written a lot of books, there are courses in storytelling and design presentations, many servicesBut the basic skills to get better at school. According to Vladimir's followers in today's world, it plays a decisive role.
Alain VladimirSchoolchildren should be given presentation skills. With this problem. We do not know how to sell themselves or projects, we are in one direction or another necessarily vrom - either plus or minus. We do not know how to talk, argue, argue qualitatively, not passing on the personality and insults. This is extremely important in the world of innovation, which valued the conceptual apparatus and the ability to reason correctly.
What to do
- Encourage your child to the book "presentation skill"Alexei Kaptereva. It covers many aspects of public speaking: the correct execution of the slide, which was built history, verbal and non-verbal communication with the audience.
- Seth Godin (Seth Godin) enables simple tipsHow to make the presentation better. Its recommendations will understand even a child.
career guidance
How to determine your future profession and the student specialty? The schools conduct short courses of vocational guidance, but for the full picture is not enough. Often they are sharpened by past profession today. But it is important to watch for the future, right?
First, the student must choose a profession itself. This means that he has to learn what it really interesting. Second, he needs help competent people in this matter. They help create a "map of the profession", which will be clearly itemized steps. If you think that these two lines - the student and the expert - do not cross, it is very wrong. Professions much more than you think.
Alain VladimirNow all career guidance is aimed at the present and the past. That is, even if your child proforientiruyut, then most likely, it will be driven in those professions, which by the time of graduation will be gone.
Yes, the lawyers of the old format will be. Similarly, there will be marketing the old format. And the old format economists will not. And translators in the form as it is now, will disappear.
We are pushing our children into a future of unemployment. We push yourself. With his hands.
What to do
- Recently launched a course "Vocational guidance for schoolchildren». It consists of six stages. First, the child passes the test, which defines its interests and the appropriate professional spheres. He then deals with the mentor, and together they picked up their profession and specialization. The next step - the selection of high school, taking into account the place of residence, exam results, the preferences of the child and the financial ability of parents.
- If your child for some reason does not like to go to clubs and sections, our article help sort out the problem.
- Not necessarily raise a child as a future entrepreneur, but it certainly does not hurt to instill in him some principles. Rather, they are about common sense in general.
How online education can help traditional
Online education trend. Judge for yourself: Run and unwind platforms such as Coursera in the past few years, TED, Codeacademy and others. Alain Vladimir believes that online education can, if not replace, the traditional exactly help to get better and make training more accessible.
Alain VladimirOnline should not be the main form of compulsory education. It will not replace offline. But, of course, online will replace some pieces of Education. For example, we are faced with the fact that we in the distant regions of shortage of teachers. The teacher teaches several subjects and teaches bad, because of this very poor level of English, mathematics. For children from remote areas it is important to make lessons partially online.
Secondly, there are advanced things that should be taught. Students from distant regions, for example, generally can not learn robotics. This is the lot of only a few large cities. Damn shame that talented people in small towns actually have to repeat the feat University. At the secondary level, this is very strange.
Thirdly, there should be more extra items. There is a basic framework, there are additional knowledge and skills that you need to acquire. For example, a girl wants to participate in musicals, living in a small town. Or, for example, the child wants to do a particular teacher abroad.
Russian online projects
We chose three of the most interesting educational projects that allow to learn a profession, to get additional specialization, learn more about the human sciences and a better understanding of Russian history and culture.
Netologiya
«Netologiya"- well-known Russian project, allowing for more skills online. Taught by dozens of practicing professionals. Classes are held in a webinar format, at the end of training, participants receive certificates. Most of the fee-based courses, but "Netologiya" sometimes holds free and introductory classes for some subjects.
Arzamas
Arzamas - a non-profit educational project dedicated to the humanities. Users can access courses in literature, history, art and other fields of knowledge. Among the lecturers 39 lecturers: architects, art historians, artists, historians, sociologists.
The open University
«The open University"- recently launched an educational project. Now users of two courses available: "Culture as a policy" and "Great transit". Tuition is free, each lesson attached supplementary materials for a deeper dive into the subject. Upon completion of the course students solve the final test and receive a certificate of completion.
As you can see, the school should not only give a basic fundamental knowledge but also to teach children practical skills. They help the child to find his place in the future.
An important role is also played online education, which complements the traditional and helps to study additional subjects, expanding the horizons of the child.