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TISDALE–The ever-increasing reach of the Saskatchewan Professional Development Unit has been a best-case scenario as far as the North East Teachers’ Association is concerned.

Education needs to evolve in order to meet demands of the future for students

If you haven’t been in a school classroom for a while, in all likelihood it would be quite an eye-opener to say the least.

From the much more diverse student population to the proliferation of technology, today’s classroom is all but unrecognizable from just a decade ago. That’s perhaps to be expected since education has to evolve in order to meet not only today’s needs, but those of the future–which few of us can accurately predict in terms of knowing what skills students will require.

My trusty dictionary tells me that imagination is, among other things, the power of forming in the mind pictures of things not present to the senses.

That being the case, it brings this whole notion of “Re-Imagine Education” into sharp focus. In other words, the very phrase implies quite purposely that the current state of public education might not be best suited to meeting the future needs of the province’s students.