How Would World-Renowned Teachers Redesign Curricula?
Employers complain that graduates are not ready for work. Stanford University studies indicate students are overloaded
and under-prepared. So exactly what should we teach young people in an age where Dr. Google has an answer for
everything; humans are living longer; the traditional professions disappear while new ones are created; international
mobility is drastically increasing population diversity; terrorism, environmental threats and inequality need our
collective attention; and robots and gene editing are coming, requiring us to re-examine the very core of what it means
to be human?
The Global Teacher Bloggers are pioneers and innovators in fields such as technology integration, mathematics coaching,
special needs education, science instruction, and gender equity. C.M. Rubin Founder of CMRubinWorld asked them to
reflect on these questions: Do you believe curriculum needs to be more relevant for a 21st century world? If you had the
power to change the school curriculum, what would you change?
“We need to develop a generation of critical thinkers, collaborators, communicators, environmentalists and ethical IT
users,” writes Rashmi Kathuria in India. “The content of the news in the last few months, and indeed years, provides
clear and loud evidence for the fact that our education system is failing,” notes Miriam Mason-Sesay, who believes
“division, hatred and bigoted fearfulness are fostered seemingly unchallenged, and our education system has not prepared
our youngsters to evaluate the veracity of so many claims.” Craig Kemp in Singapore wants “more emphasis on lifelong
learning skills than on curriculum content,” and Elisa Guerra Cruz’s curriculum would be focused on “passion projects,
aimed at gaining knowledge and abilities, but also at discovering whatever fires a student’s heart,”
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The Global Teacher Bloggers have founded schools, written curricula, and led classrooms in 16 different countries that
stretch across every populated continent on earth. CMRubinWorld’s Top Global Teachers are: Rashmi Kathuria, Jim Tuscano,
Craig Kemp, Jasper Rijpma, Elisa Guerra, Pauline Hawkins, Maarit Rossi, Vicki Davis, Miriam Mason-Sesay, Shaelynn
Fransworth, Carl Hooker, Adam Steiner, Warren Sparrow, Nadia Lopez, Richard Wells, Joe Fatheree, Kazuya Takahashi, and
Abeer Qunaibi
CMRubinWorld launched in 2010 to explore what kind of education would prepare students to succeed in a rapidly changing
globalized world. Its award-winning series, The Global Search for Education, is a highly regarded trailblazer in the
renaissance of 21st century education, and occupies a widely respected place in the pulse of key issues facing every
nation and the collective future of all children. It connects today’s top thought leaders with a diverse global audience
of parents, students and educators. Its highly readable platform allows for discourse concerning our highest ideals and
the sustainable solutions we must engineer to achieve them. C. M. Rubin has produced hundreds of interviews and articles
discussing an extensive array of topics under a singular vision: when it comes to the world of children, there is always
more work to be done.
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