Do you, your child or your staff need to improve your creative and critical thinking skills?
40% of today’s jobs won’t exist in the next decade; educators are being challenged to produce more innovative thinkers; government is looking for new industries; and business is looking for the next generation of game changers. Where do we start to address this?
StartUp Realm focuses on skills that sit across content areas including creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration – skills crucial for developing innovators, thought leaders and entrepreneurs throughout the economy. However these skills are multifaceted and therefore difficult to teach and measure. StartUp Realm is agnostic of subject matter as it focuses on the 21st Century learning skills that can be used in a school, tertiary and corporate environment. StartUp Realm provides:
- An Online Learning Platform for anyone interested in improving their thinking skills.
- Tools aimed at encouraging curiosity, engaging individuals in the discovery, creation and development of ideas.
- Resources that connect educators, business, parents and students by providing content, resources and ideas for activities.
Spend 10 minutes answering our self-assessment benchmarking tool designed around the General capabilities Section of the Australian Curriculum and the 21st Century skills advocated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The material is designed to fit into your schedule whether in the classroom, around the dinner table or during team meetings.
Content has been developed to meet the needs of parents, teachers, students and employers. Each lesson provides material to read or watch and suggestions for putting the learning into practice.
Our downloadable benchmark report allows you to easily measure your improvement over time.
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Who we are ?
- Assisted over 6,000 clients
- Hosted more than 170 events
- Helped businesses raise more than $6 million
- Formed strategic alliances to assist clients
- Collaborate locally, regionally and nationally
What we do ..!
At Lighthouse we don't believe in 'one size fits all', we tailor our approach to meet your specific needs and current stage of business development. We deliver our services in a way that suits you whether that be face-to-face or virtually and we achieve this through a range of free and fee-for-services and delivery mechanisms.
“Business wonders why education isn’t producing the thoughtful, creative, self-confident people they urgently need... We now have a school curriculum that teaches ten subjects but only limited ways of thinking.” Sir Ken Robinson, Out of our minds (Capstone: 2001)
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