Is the model of education we have up to the job of preparing young people for a world that is so radically different from the one that existed when the education system was set up?

For over a decade Ian Gilbert has been working with young people and their teachers around the world to help them develop the thinking, learning, creativity and motivation for success in school and beyond. But the world is changing at an alarming rate, the future is upon us and so much of what goes on in the classroom is still designed to create successful 20th century citizens who will do what they are told and not cause too much of a fuss.

And unless things change we will all be left behind.

With his customary combination of hard-hitting truths, practical classroom ideas and irreverent sense of humour Ian Gilbert has written something that should be required reading for everyone involved in educating young people.

If you are a teacher, the future of the world needs you to be great – this book will show you why. And how.

This book is designed to be required reading for every teacher to help ensure that the education system in the UK is knowledgeable about and ready for the challenges that today’s young people will face in the 21st century. Areas covered will include globalisation, new life skills, thinking and creativity for the new economy, technology, change and learning, neuroscience of learning, the teacher’s true power in the classroom, classrooms as laboratories, ‘dumbing up’ to help more people learn more in a variety of ways.