What are you training your students for? Here's what the future needs..
Obama administration 2009 report on the Future of Labor
Available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Jobs_of_the_Future.pdf
"...Although “interactive” skills, such as effective communication and the ability to work well with others, have not traditionally been studied, nor perhaps valued, by educators, there is growing awareness of their importance for adult success. Researchers have highlighted the growing importance of “non-cognitive” skills in the labor market and argue that a range of behaviors that reflect “greater student self-awareness, self-monitoring, and self-control” are key indicators that students are able to effectively learn and succeed in a modern post-secondary environment..."
