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The Corona has shown how petrified the education system is and the auditor's report has shown that it is failing in its role of preparing the younger generation for the challenges of tomorrow. The curriculum and matriculation exams must undergo a fundamental change and encourage skills of cooperation, critical thinking and creativity


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Schools are disconnecting your children from the 21st century - and their future is in danger

The Corona has shown how petrified the education system is and the auditor's report has shown that it is failing in its role of preparing the younger generation for the challenges of tomorrow.

The curriculum and matriculation exams must undergo a fundamental change and encourage skills of cooperation, critical thinking and creativity

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Tali Nachlieli

Friday, 19 March 2021, 18:30 Updated: 18:33

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In the video: 7th-10th grade students protest the decision not to return them to school (Photo: Reuven Castro, Editing: Assaf Drori)

The State Comptroller's report published this week stated that most schools in Israel do not teach the skills needed for the 21st century.

According to the findings, the younger generation educated today will not be ready for the job market and dealing with the world of tomorrow.



What is special about these skills?

These are learning skills (critical thinking, problem-solving ability, self-learning), literacy (information management, technological and digital literacy) and life skills (self-direction, collaboration, creativity and communication), identified by many education and economic organizations around the world as enabling citizens to cope A changing and technology-intensive reality that includes situations of uncertainty.



To understand what might happen if this State Comptroller's prediction does come true, suffice it to look at the last school



year

:

In the past year, the education system has been thrown into the 21st century.

We were required to function in a state of uncertainty, when the teaching-learning environment changed in an instant and we were required to rely on technology to communicate.

Quite a few students have found that they are unable to function in the new situation that has been imposed on them.



Within it, there were islands of a different reality.

In excellent math classes, where even before the Corona there was an emphasis on learning from interest, developing self-learning skills, collaboration and digital literacy, utilizing unique technological tools - all skills needed for life in the 21st century - learning continued and even more so.

In contrast, in classrooms where there was an attempt to continue teaching traditionally and no adjustment was made to the changing reality, we saw black bricks zoom in and students disappear.



This year we learned that traditional teaching, which focuses on transferring material on the part of the teacher and practice on the part of the students, does not work.

We also learned that students who have not developed self-learning skills, aimed at learning and the ability to communicate and collaborate - are left behind.

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In the corona year we learned that traditional teaching does not work.

Students of the Yonatan Netanyahu School in Raanana, March 7, 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Failure to prepare students for the challenges of the future will degrade Israel's competitive position in the world.

It will have an impact on the country’s economy and important fields like high-tech, science, engineering and medicine.

The gaps in the abilities of young Israelis will affect their ability to reach their full potential in their careers.

Also socially, we find ourselves lagging behind other countries that have already made the necessary adjustments and changes in education.



What can be done to prevent this gloomy prediction from coming true?

Precisely today, when the leaders of the country are facing the damage of the corona, there is a golden opportunity to rebuild and make the necessary changes.

Already now there are important initiatives being taken in this regard.



For example, during the summer of 2020, a series of meetings was held with the participation of about 50 leading mathematics teachers in the country, top teachers, researchers and experts from Israel and the world, and men and women from the Ministry of Education.

The meetings, which are the result of a collaboration between the Lewinsky College of Education and the Weizmann Institute, with the support of the Trump Foundation, have led to clear conclusions: Of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity, with the appropriate mediation of the teacher.



Working in groups on solving such problems requires students to analyze the problem together, find a suitable mathematical model, and develop a way to solve it.

The very act of coping and finding ways to solve it encourages creative thinking.

Exposure to different solutions to the same problem allows students to look at the same situation in different ways.

The joint work in which each of the students is an active partner, encourages more accurate communication between the students who are required to explain their thinking and relate to the things of others.


This is a move that needs to be made in collaboration between policymakers, math educators and mathematicians.

Assimilating such measures in the entire education system will lead us to the right path.

The Corona made it clear to everyone that change was needed

In order to train teachers for the process, it is necessary to learn teaching methods that encourage thinking, in the field of the content that is taught.

It is important that principals back up teachers and encourage them to devote time in the classroom to students ’dealing with challenging issues.

The lesson time invested in working on one problem they will gain later in that the students will learn ideas in depth and therefore less repetition will be required.



In addition, the education system should ensure that all students and teachers have access to relevant technology that will allow them to attend a distance learning lesson as well as use software or platforms designed for learning.

In math, for example, you can mention software like Gaugebra or Desmos.



The Corona made it clear to everyone that change was needed.

The auditor's report may mark the beginning of its implementation.

According to world experience, this is a complex change that requires the mobilization of the entire system and an important tool for its success is the increased autonomy given to school principals and teachers.

Such changes were made, for example, in the Netherlands and led the Dutch to high results in the international PISA tests, which indicate the suitability of their students for the challenges of the 21st century.



Prof. Tali Nahlieli is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics Teaching, Lewinsky College of Education

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