Future Wise - Educating Our Children for a Changing World

Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today''s learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what''s worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you''ll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future.

K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society. David Perkins, founding member and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard''s Graduate School of Education, argues that curriculum is one of the most important elements of making students ready for the world of tomorrow. In Future