Teaching for Tomorrow

Given the incredible pace of technological change and the potential for more than 40 percent of the current jobs in Ontario to be automated, the nature of work and the skills required are shifting. [...] Chair, Ontario’s Panel on Economic Growth & Prosperity While we cannot predict the jobs of the future, we can already foresee some of the skills and competencies – the foundations of jobs – that will be important to develop for the workplace of Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School the future. [...] Since 1997, the share of Ontario’s total annual gross domestic product (GDP) from service industries has increased These economic transformations, and the disruption they by eight percentage points.2 present to employment, have brought attention to the skills that will be required to thrive in the labour market of the As the Institute examined in Working Paper 29, The labour future. [...] However the tary human skills, particularly creativity and collaboration.8 changing economic, technological, and The Institute matched labour market forecasts from the social conditions of Ontario government with a US Department of Labor database the 21st century of skill requirements for each occupation to produce a forecast mean that inter- of what skills will be most in demand across the labour [...] At the time, methods appears to actually be associated with slightly higher many educators blamed the poor performance of students on math scores according to 2017 EQAO microfiles: 50.4 percent changes to the math and science curriculum introduced in of grade 3 students and 50.1 percent of grade 6 students who 2000 that made the material difficult for students to under- met the provincial math sta