{"id":920,"date":"2011-04-16T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2011-04-16T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T18:36:25","slug":"indias-colleges-not-preparing-their-students-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"India’s colleges not preparing their students; are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father shared with me an article, India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire<\/a>, from the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 It discusses that many of the graduates from India’s colleges are not prepared to work in India’s business and engineering fields.\u00a0 Even call centers are finding it difficult to fill jobs. We have all heard “India has more honor students then we have students.”\u00a0 It does not matter how many ‘honor’ students you may have if they cannot achieve their full potential.\u00a0 A person’s talent cannot be realized unless they have participated in a robust, varied education where active learning, questioning and exploration are central.\u00a0 Information and rote learning are just a small part of one’s learning.\u00a0 What contributes to a person’s success and participation in innovation is their ability to be flexible, collaborative, researching, problem solvers.\u00a0 These skills, according to the article, are not being taught and encouraged in India’s colleges.\u00a0 Are we encouraging these skills in our students?\u00a0 Or are we encouraging more basic, fact based learning with our current focus on testing.<\/p>\n

My hope for our students, and my children,\u00a0 is that they become learners who know how to research, are members of active learning communities were they collaborate, share and create. I want them to explore outside the prescribed curriculum, follow their interests and pull it all together in new and creative ways.\u00a0 I never want my children to say\u00a0 “we never learned that in school” or “I do not know” and just give up.\u00a0 Instead I want them to say “lets find out”, “how can I\u2026, and “let me try.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My father shared with me an article, India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire, from the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 It discusses that many of the graduates from India’s colleges are not prepared to work in India’s business and engineering fields.\u00a0 Even call centers are finding it difficult to fill jobs. We have all heard “India has more honor students then we have students.”\u00a0 It does not matter how many ‘honor’ students you may have if they cannot…<\/p>\n

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