About the Certificate: What does it mean to be "certified" in Global Skills?

There is a list of skills.

There is a list of books, articles and videos that describe the skills and techniques for working in the Global Economy.

The students build portfolios to show how they put those skills to use.

The students eventually become certified to teach these skillls to others.

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This Certificate is awarded to

YOUR NAME

to recognize your commitment 

to the ideas promoted 

in the Global Skills Department

of Trinidad International University.

You have performed your

understanding of the skills

in a portfolio that includes video,

posters and web content.

Your "performances of understanding"

are available to the public to help

spread and apply these ideas. 

This certificate was awarded today     _____________            

____________________________

Department Chair 

____________________________   

         President of Trinidad International University

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The aim of this program is to develop people who can explain and apply the ideas in the books selected by the Global Skills Department.   If you can explain these ideas, then you are invited to become an adjunct instructor to help spread the positive virus of these "ideas whose time has come."

For more information about the Global Skills Department and its programs, please call (954) 646 8246

What impact could age have on judgment? Is 25 the new age for adulthood for men? (18 or 21 for women)

What can we learn from research about the brain?

Here are some articles to consider...

Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years : NPR

www.npr.org › News › Science › Brain Candy‎

 

NPR

Oct 10, 2011 - But emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don't reach full maturity until the age 25. ... two years earlier than male brains, so you're more likely to have a late developing male brain than female.

Delayed Development: 20-Somethings Blame the Brain - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com/.../SB1000087239639044371370...‎

 

The Wall Street Journal

Aug 23, 2012 - Recent research into how the brain develops suggests that people ...age of first marriage for women in the U.S. was 20, and men 22. ... 20s not to know what you're going to do and change your mind and seem very unstable in your life. ... from 18 to 25, trends that tend to level out by age 28, studies show.

BBC News - Is 25 the new cut-off point for adulthood?

www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24173194‎

 

Sep 23, 2013 - We used to think that the brain was fully developed by very early ... thinking strategies are used as your brain becomes more like an adult brain. ... at a certain age, that actually there's evidence of brain development ... led to a growing number of young men and women in their late 20s still living at home.

Some questions that I'm wrestling with:  

Does a student who is 20 years old ready for some of the difficult assignments that I give to students?

Should the degree be conditional on the student retaking some issues and resubmitting some papers?

If academic papers are submitted by people of different ages, could a professor suspend grading for people under the age of majority?   For women, the age might be 18-21 while for  men the age might be 24-25.

Could a university suspend a degree from someone who clearly acts as though he or she has not been educated?   The degree coudl be reinstated when the speaker explains to the satisfacitono the departmetn that he recants a previous statement about science.

Insurance Rates for Young Men

people under the age of 25 are more likely to get into accidents. This isn't an opinion -- insurance companies make these assessments based on the facts before them. For example, young men are more likely to get into accidents than women, and married folks are less likely to be in accidents than their single peers [source: State Farm]. So, a married woman at 25 is already likely to have a lower insurance rate than an unmarried male counterpart,

Besides the age issue, what about the gender difference?

InsWeb's 2010 Male/Female Car Insurance Rate Index

The national median car insurance rate for women is about 9% lower than the rate for men.

According to information collected by InsWeb, the median car insurance rate for women is about 9% lower than the rate for men.

The national median rate for women is $698 for a six-month policy. For men, it's $765.

Why do women pay less on average for car insurance than men? The answer may lie in the differences between the men and women that shop online for insurance, rather than the way insurers actually view the genders.

Based on an examination of male and female drivers who request insurance quotes at InsWeb.com, several differences are noteworthy, including:

• Women are almost 50 percent less likely than men to have a DUI/DWI on their driving record
• Women are approximately 10 percent less likely to have a moving violation on their record
• Women own vehicles with an average list price that is over 8 percent lower than the vehicles owned by men ($22,815 vs. $24,861, respectively)
• Women listed as the primary driver are less likely than men to purchase a car insurance policy with multiple drivers and/or multiple vehicles

http://www.insweb.com/auto-insurance/men-women-state-rates.html

Welcome to the blog for "Global Skills Department at TIU"

Some of the issues covered in the GLobal Skill Department

What are the skills needed in the global economy?  What does Tony Wagner of Harvard mean by "Initiative and Entrepreneuring"?

What do you want to learn next?

If you hold a degree from a university, you hold a sheet of paper that declares, "This person has shown the ability to learn new things."

If you are planning to get a degree at a university, you are still charged with this challenge:  What do you plan to learn next?


This blog will capture some of the topics that are offered for the Global Skills Certificate through Trinidad University.

The program is entirely online with feedback by telephone, skype, email, and one-on-one evaluation and feedback (face to face or via Skype or via telephone).


Here is one of the videos that will help start the discussion:

The Nine Factors
1 Posters (let the walls teach)
2 Individual Education Plans or Personal Learning Plans
3 "17 Principles" by Barak Rosenshine, recommended by Richard E. Clark
4 Digital Portfolios (made with Google Sites or other free software) and Personal Digital Libraries
5 Narratives (in addition or instead of transcripts)
and Exhibitions (in addition to written tests)
6 Finding Mentors (connecting ex students with current students)
7 Long Term Relationships
8 Flipping the Classroom
9 We don't know what we don't know
The students will give us feedback... how can we teach what we don't know/

The tools include Blazeks'
USB flash drive
CD
ebooks
posters

FREE posters from our websites Transform Teaching dot org

How can we bring Skype in the classroom?
Free Quotes to stimulate your students

Free ebook by Abraham Fischler
Free ebook Teaching as a Subversive Activity

bring projects into the classroom.


Are we asking students "What do you want to learn?"

Jeff Hutt, Elliot Washor, Eliot Levine, Dennis Littky, Essential skills and coalition of Essential Schools

ASCD ISTE for technology and education
AECT  (organizations that provide support)

Workshops available from EdutechFoundation.net

Flipped Classroom, Abraham S. Fischler, Edutech "Abraham S. Fischler" "Transform Education" 

These are programs that are available for teachers who want additional training. The concepts come from readings with Richard E. Clark, Abraham S. Fischler and a collection of business writers and TED presenters who have given us prescriptions for shaping the school curriculum. Tony Wagner, Malcolm Gladwell, Ken Robinson, Dan Pink, Thomas Friedman and Sugata Mitra are some of the influences.


2 7 14 30 days training program.


Please contact us to learn more...  GLOBAL SKILLS WEBSITE

You are invited to become a student of the Global Skills Department ... Many of our courses are without charge (but they are not free... you need to invest yourself)

Click here for your first FREE online lesson

Please look at these documents and contact me to learn more about the aims of the Global Skills Department.   This Certificate, offered through Trinidad University, is more about something that you demonstrate to yourself.   The certificate does not have widespread popularity.  Most people don't know what "global skills" are.   The aim of this blogpost is to encourage you to contact the department at (954) 646 8246 and begin the discussion.

VisualAndActive@gmail.com    

More about the certificate program