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impact on the employment landscape over the coming years. This leaves teachers with the unique challenge of preparing a generation for careers that don’t even exist yet – all while balancing the demands of schools and time and resource constraints.


In fact, the future workplace will demand a whole new breed of skills and a shift in mindset. Skills such as resilience, creativity and the ability to apply critical thinking will be increasingly important to help young people navigate the change ahead. However, we know from our own research that teachers across the UK today don’t feel that the current classroom is equipped to facilitate modern learning and that there’s a clear lack of the necessary tools to level the playing field for every student along thei r education journey.


So how can teachers and schools prepare students for this “world of tomorrow” in th e world of today ?


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h smonth in our f rst look at c assroomook at clal ssroom techno ogy, wetechnollogy,we hear from Chris Rothwell, Director of Education,Microsoft UK,who examines howteachers and schools can prepare their students for theworld ofwork in the future.


his moi nth, in o, ur first li ar from Chris Rothwell,


Director of Education, Microsoft UK, who examines how teachers and schools can prepare their students for the world of work in the future.


The world around us is evolving rapidly and it’s often difficult to imagine what the next five years will look like, let alone the next 10.What’s clear is that the workplace will be very different, with the World Economic Forum predicting that disruptive changes to business models will have a profound


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Teachers have a critical role in equipping students with the knowledge and skills to succeed. However, there’s one challenge we consistently hear in the education community; achieving a work life balance, whilst also helping students to excel.


In fact, our research has unearthed that 77% of UK teachers don’t feel they’re able to do their best work due to time and resource constraints, and sadly 67%feel forced to simply ‘get through the day’ instead of thinking creatively and innovatively about the individual needs of students. This phenomenon is also having a clear


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impact on the future of the profession, with research from the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) showing how school leaders have struggled or failed to recruit in eight out of ten cases in 2017. The future success of schools and the teaching profession is hinged on empowering teachers to do their best work and continuing to ignite their passion for what they do.


The key is to invest in tools that not only enable educators to be mo enhance the role of


the teacher in the classroom. re productive, but also


In turn, teachers will be able to better balance their work loads and refocus their time where it matters – in delivering immersive, imaginative and


We’re increasingl engaging lessons.


y seeing how teachers tha t use mobile technology and cloud-based


collaboration tools can refocus how they spend their time. Indeed, Forrester found that using such tools teachers can save over 30 minutes


developing lesson plans. These types of tools that allow the 'democratisation' of content across the entire school network encourage the sharing of lesson plans, learning materials and enable colleagues to work collaboratively in real time on school wide initiatives to ensure a better use of time and resources.


What’s more with integrations such as digital inking, teachers can work in a much more exemplary way, marking work with annotations and diagrams to help students better grasp concepts that may be difficult to explain in words. All feedback is securely saved in the cloud, so that both teachers and students can revisit the feedback and pare nts can also track their child’s


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