I just started reading The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner and I already found the first chapter to be very informative and I think it will be a great book to read for us future teachers. He brings to our attention that our education is increasing falling behind and not keeping up to other education systems around the world. Our schools are more worried about if our teachers are doing a good job than if our students minds are growing. Because our education system wants to make sure teachers are teaching certain things they implemented more testing, therefore students are being taught how to take test inside aspects such as critical thinking and problem solving.
Wagner covered seven survival skills that all people should have. The seven he mentioned were critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration across networks and leading by influence, initiative and enterpreneurialism, accessing and analyzing information, effective oral and written communication, curiosity and Imagination, and Agility and Adaptability. I think these are also very important skills especially for teachers to have so they can be successful and also so they can pass these skills on to their students.
The final thing that Wagner mention was the importance for our students to have a global prespective. So many people in the United States are not aware of what's going on around the world, especially our students. This is because there is not enough emphasis on other countires in our education system. In other countries students are bilingual and we have very view children who can speak more than one language. I think it's very important, with our growing economy and diveristy, to be able to speak different languages or at least be educated about diversity and people around the world.
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