Schools as skill-generating environments
Channel: European School Education Platform
Date: 2023-07-18

Education is the gateway to all human rights. In this sense, the development of skills in the school context is an ethical obligation that the school owes to learners and society. However, individual teacher responses are not sufficient to meet this responsibility. We need a comprehensive response from the whole educational institution to ensure that all learners develop the basic skills necessary for a good life. For this reason, in this webinar we will discuss how, from a teaching perspective, this commitment is expressed through the choice of the most efficient methodological strategies, moving from a single diet of lectures to a variety of methodological approaches and proposals. From the collective perspective, the concept of "academic optimism" will be presented, which can synthesise the keys to making the school an environment that contributes effectively to the development of students' skills.