The Importance Of Learning Skills In Education

As globalization literally transforms the world before onlookers ' eyes, it behooves educators around the world to learn new skills in teaching. It is not only that teachers today need to upgrade their knowledge base, in the subjects they teach. They also need to adapt how they emotionally and psychologically reach and teach students from many different cultures and traditions. This requires that schools possess human assets that have the global skill sets that include cultural, linguistic and academic flexibility and dexterity, which are means of fully communicating with children in ways that actually help them learn from outside their former national backgrounds. Consequently, it is fundamentally essential that institutions of learning, from preschool levels to higher education, that schools invest time, human and intellectual resources into discovering new ways of accomplishing the …show more content…
It is through focused, unbiased, and open-minded academic leadership that teaching will be capable of giving the required global skills to students and knowledge they will need in future globalized generations of children for whom many of the past cultural walls will have been torn down. Therefore, it is essential that schools no longer plan their academic curriculum and manners of imparting knowledge based on past cultural, religious and linguistic ways of teaching. The only way that this can be accomplished is through effective leadership that regards the educational planning for children with a vision that is not tainted by former biases. It also demands that school leaders comprehend that one size no longer fit all children 's style of learning and plan for the financial, intellectual and skilled manpower to bring effective programs to their students (Rutherford,