This document outlines an assignment for students to analyze the role and goals of secondary education based on suggested materials including a TED talk. It discusses how secondary education should prepare students for today's globalized world by developing cognitive, linguistic, and cultural skills through diverse activities and texts. It argues that while the 20th century focused on teaching practices and contents, the 21st century requires new goals, redesigned pedagogies, and deeper learning to develop students' critical thinking and prepare them for a changing job market. Specifically, schools should cultivate skills like creativity, collaboration, problem solving, ethics and resilience to make students engaged global citizens capable of progressing society.

1. Instituto de Formación Docente Continua
Lenguas Vivas Bariloche (A-052)
Práctica Docente III - Nivel Secundario
Plan 2015
Tutor’s name: Aurelia Velázquez
Assignment: Unit 1
Students’ names: Zentner, Valeria - Risso,
Guillermina - Orelia, Analía
Emails: zentnervaleria@gmail.com, guilleminarisso2@gmail.com,
aorelia769@gmail.com

2. Deadline: March 26th
Mandatory Assignment 1
The following assignment is a collaborative task. You may work in pairs or
groups of three. Each student must upload the assignment to the Campus.
Josef James, a former teacher who is passionate about education, reflects on
the role secondary school should play in society. His talk aims at inspiring
some kind of changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSixbEDOYgA
After reading the suggested materials and watching the TEDx Talk, you should
draw up your conclusions of the distinguishing characteristics that define
secondary education, its aims and foundations. You should also describe both
the learner and the teacher, bearing in mind today's challenges and
requirements.
Development
Drawing on the Secondary Education Curriculum, the school has to guarantee the
learning-teaching to all students to allow them to interact effectively in a globalised
world. Diversity, inclusion and multiculturality are underlined in the Curriculum. In the
light of this, teaching L2 helps to develop cognitive and linguistic skills associated
with the practice of reading, writing, listening, and speaking through different texts of
literature and diverse activities. It encounters the understanding of their own culture,
knowing others, and broadening the vision of the world, one characterized by
scientific, technical, technological and economic communication. Nevertheless, XXI
Century needs a change to accomplish this aforementioned foundation. This current
period requires new goals to define, redesign and an attempt to innovate the process
of education in a deeper learning project.
To start with, the XX century left us as educators the structures of the thoughts
through practice and contents, then the metacognitive aspects to achieve the
knowledge and last the critical thinking to understand certain issues presented in this
globalised world (Mariana Maggio, 2018). However, these aspects make us reflect

3. on the effectiveness of the employment of thinking and critical skills to assess newer
generations of learners. As educators, we have to face our students’ demands as
global citizens and design our teaching based on the real world. New pedagogies
are key if we want a successful future for them.
On the other side, school has to offer a new vision of the learning-teaching process
due to the constant and accelerated advance of technology, the XXI century impacts
over past pedagogical conception and the curriculum itself. What is more, certain
barriers are present in today’s world as new policies to install a reform, measures to
figure out the assessment of learning conditions, the construction of new pedagogies
models to go forward a deeper learning and learning-work so as learners can co-
create learning and be more prepared for todays’ world (Fullan and Langworthy,
2013)
It is the school duty to provide learners with the opportunities to acquire the
necessary knowledge to join the forthcoming job-world. However, in a globalised
world that is constantly changing and evolving, students need more than knowledge
and information. Based on Josef James’ statistics, most secondary students think
education means ‘job assurance’, but we know that it is more than that. The newer
generation needs to develop critical and creative skills, respect, discipline and ethics
as well. These are the skills Gardner claims as the Five Minds of the Future, which in
fact, are the ones that every student needs to develop as citizens and human beings.
It is essential for them to develop such skills to be able to deal with information and
take decisions based on it, be part of the community and contribute to its
development, progress and evolution, to choose rightly what to do when they face
difficult situations that require moral attitudes, to follow their hearts and do what they
feel is correct and not what society want and force them to do, to assert their rights
and take part in democracy, and to look for ways to make this world a better one. In
few words, life-long creative, collaborative and sensitive beings.
Based on this, we may affirm that secondary schools need to rebuild up some
aspects in Education, working on new pedagogies for deep learning. It is time to
include each and every student, providing them with the same opportunities for
learning and participation within the classroom. Encourage the gifted students to
continue and strive to graduate from school so that they will be able to become part

4. of the world outside of it. Encourage students not only to play a role within the
economic policies of our country, but to go beyond those barriers. It is vital to show
them that there is much more out there to fight for and to care about. It is vital that
we take the role of guides and help these students to discover what they like and
what they are good at, what their expectations and dreams are, encourage them to
follow and fulfill them with passion. Following these steps, secondary school should
be thought as something more than the place where students take subjects to
acquire knowledge, but as a place that seeks a comprehensive, ethical, human and
civic training of each of its students, preparing them for a world that will continue to
change and needs them to continue growing and evolving for good. Comentario [A1]: Excellentanalysis,
ladies!
Thereis a lotto be done!