What I mean by 21st century schools are schools that have already shifted their teaching approach from a teacher-centered approach to a more student-centered approach and not to mention that these schools focuses more on the skills needed in the 21st century such as collaboration, decision making and problem solving
The title of my post describes how these schools are in contrast with the teaching method in universities. The reason? Well, if we dig deeper into these so called 21st century schools, we will find a lot of activities that focuses on preparing students to face the real-world. One example of this is a High School in Indonesia, HighScope High School that has a class which is called Virtual Enterprise (VE). This class is not an ordinary class, because when you come into this class the setting is like a company office setting and all the students take roles as CEOs, Marketing Manager and other positions. However, once the students graduate from high school some universities especially in Indonesia are the opposite to what they have learnt. The teaching method is lecturing (same as teacher centered approach) and the tasks are mostly individual instead of collaborative assignments. Shouldn’t the universities prepare the students for work place readiness? To be continued…
