Globally, students need to become more adept to thrive in the 21st century workplace. Jobs are now demanding, aside from knowledge, problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
Fortunately, this demand is being met with a more innovative approach to education.
Since 2016, XSEED, an education and technology company with headquarters in Singapore, has been helping educators in the Philippines shift their teaching methods with a comprehensive teaching and learning program. In 2017, it saw exponential growth with 30 primary schools in Luzon adopting the XSEED program.
XSEED’s unique “Five Step Learning Process” ensures that children develop critical and analytical thinking skills by replacing traditional “chalk and talk” teaching methods. The program comprises over 10,000 comprehensive, researched teaching plans to help XSEED-trained teachers uncover and share each concept, step-by-step.
The said teaching plans guide teachers on how to teach each concept—setting a clear aim aligned with a learning outcome, conducting an activity, analyzing the experience, applying it in everyday life, and finally assessing what children have learned.
Schools adopting the XSEED method see marked improvements in problem-solving, creativity, collaboration, and communication in English. A 2014 study showed that XSEED children outperformed their peers in non-XSEED schools by up to 20 percent on an average across grades and even more on items requiring mastery of higher-order inference and reasoning skills.
The program benefits the children by enhancing curiosity, confidence, and thinking skills—the very skills they need to excel in the 21st century.
Recently, educators and school administrators from around the country attended an XSEED forum to gain a deeper understanding of the program. The group learned about the impact of the program in over 3,000 schools across eight countries in South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
“We wanted to introduce XSEED to more educators in the country who are also seeking to dramatically improve the quality of teaching and learning in their classrooms,” said XSEED Education founder and chairman Ashish Rajpal.
He added, “We believe that they will see the intrinsic value of the program for their students, and are confident that with this program we can help Filipino students become more prepared for all of their future opportunities.”
Over one million children learn through the XSEED method, through more than 75,000 re-skilled teachers. With an increasingly global footprint, XSEED has gained a reputation as one of the exciting new international education companies today.