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Becoming Brilliant offers solutions that parents can implement right now. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and illustrated with examples of what amp rsquo s being done right in schools today, this book introduces the Cs-collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence-along with ways parents can nurture their children amp rsquo s development in each area.
In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those their parents and grandparents knew. Even the definition of amp quot career amp quot and amp quot job amp quot are changing as more people build their own teams to create new businesses, apps, and services. Although these changes are well underway, our system of K amp ndash 2 education in the United States lags behind.
Our education system still subscribes to the idea that content is king. The exclusive focus on content is reflected in what we test and how we teach, and even the toys we offer our children at home. Employers want to hire excellent communicators, critical thinkers, and innovators - in short, they want brilliant people. But they are often disappointed. So what can we do, as parents, to help our children be brilliant and successful? Stories about the failures of our educational system abound, but most of them stop after pointing out the problems. Becoming Brilliant goes beyond complaining to offer solutions that parents can apply right now.
Authors Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek provide a science-based framework for how we should be educating children in and outside of school. Parents become agents of change for children's success when they nurture six critical skills. Constructed from the latest scientific evidence and presented in an accessible way rich with examples, this book introduces the Cs - collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation, and confidence - along with tips to optimize children's development in each area. Taken together, these are the skills that will make up the straight-A report card for success in the 2 st century.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter : Redefining Success in the 2 st Century
Chapter 2: The Learning Industry and the Learning Sciences: How Educational Reform Sent Us in the Wrong Direction
Chapter 3: The Skills Needed for Success Are Global
Chapter 4: Hard Skills and amp quot Soft Skills amp quot : Finding the Perfect Balance
Chapter 5: Collaboration: No One Can Fiddle a Symphony
Chapter : Communication: Lines of Connection
Chapter 7: Toppling the King That Is Content
Chapter 8: Critical Thinking: What Counts as Evidence?
Chapter 9: Creative Innovation: Rearranging the Old to Make the New
Chapter : Confidence: Dare to Fail
Chapter : A Report Card for the 2 st Century
Epilogue: What If? The Reprise
Notes
Index
About the Authors
