Preparing Teachers For 21St Century Challenges
By Andreas Schleicher
Director, Directorate for Education too Skills
Preparing today’s students to thrive inwards their club is no tardily task. The skills too knowledge they’ll demand to succeed inwards the time to come are constantly changing, spell others are apace beingness digitised, automated or outsourced.
This puts teachers inwards a hard position. Not solely do nosotros human face them to receive got a deep too wide agreement of the subjects they teach, too to adequately laid upwards their students for 21st century challenges; nosotros too human face them to live on passionate, compassionate too thoughtful, too to ensure that students experience valued too included inwards a collaborative learning environment.
Our expectations of teachers are high too rising, yet our educational activity systems are non keeping pace. Most schools human face much the same today equally they did a generation ago, too teachers themselves are oftentimes non developing the practices too skills required to regard the various needs of today’s learners.
So what tin live on done to back upwards teachers to regard the formidable challenges of 21st century education? And how tin they accept payoff of novel opportunities? Those questions volition live on at the pump of the 8th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP), which volition live on held this calendar week inwards Lisbon. Hosted yesteryear the Portuguese Ministry of Education, amongst back upwards from the OECD too Education International, the Summit brings together educational activity ministers, spousal human relationship leaders too other instructor leaders to part their insights too reverberate on world educational activity policy.
Over the class of 2 days (22-23 March), attendees volition address iii interrelated issues. The commencement session focuses on schools, too how policy-makers too the teaching profession tin strengthen links betwixt schools too their communities. Schools are vital to the social wellness of their local communities, too the well-nigh successful schools are oftentimes those that are at the pump of their cities, towns too neighborhoods. Engaging amongst local communities is hence telephone commutation to success, equally it is clear that no schoolhouse exists inwards a vacuum.
The minute session gets to the pump of education: pedagogy. Many teachers receive got a proficient feel of the variety of pedagogies on which 21st century learning hinges, exactly in that place is nonetheless a pregnant gap betwixt intended too implemented practices. The challenge for educational activity systems is to create weather that volition encourage teachers to initiate, part too evaluate innovative pedagogies – including novel technologies -- too to anticipate whatever impacts such pedagogies may receive got on the roles of students too teachers.
In the 3rd session, nosotros volition plow our attending to teachers themselves. There is a growing recognition that inwards monastic tell for teaching too learning to live on well-nigh effective, teachers demand to receive got high levels of well-being, self-efficacy too confidence. How tin governments, inwards partnership amongst teachers’ unions, create evidence-informed strategies on well-being, efficacy too effectiveness equally role of their instructor policies?
Over the years, the ISTP has established itself of the well-nigh unique too successful educational activity summits inwards the dry reason – inwards part, because it explores hard too controversial issues on the dry reason of audio evidence, provided yesteryear the OECD. The eighth edition of the Summit volition live on no different, too I am rattling much looking forrard to the discussions too debates. Charting a class forrard for teachers volition non live on uncomplicated or straightforward – exactly it is absolutely necessary. Today’s students volition human face upwards vastly unlike challenges yesteryear the fourth dimension they accomplish adulthood. We should do everything nosotros tin to brand certain they’re prepared.
8th International Summit on the Teaching Profession
Valuing our Teachers too Raising their Status: How Communities Can Help
Director, Directorate for Education too Skills
Preparing today’s students to thrive inwards their club is no tardily task. The skills too knowledge they’ll demand to succeed inwards the time to come are constantly changing, spell others are apace beingness digitised, automated or outsourced.
This puts teachers inwards a hard position. Not solely do nosotros human face them to receive got a deep too wide agreement of the subjects they teach, too to adequately laid upwards their students for 21st century challenges; nosotros too human face them to live on passionate, compassionate too thoughtful, too to ensure that students experience valued too included inwards a collaborative learning environment.
Our expectations of teachers are high too rising, yet our educational activity systems are non keeping pace. Most schools human face much the same today equally they did a generation ago, too teachers themselves are oftentimes non developing the practices too skills required to regard the various needs of today’s learners.
So what tin live on done to back upwards teachers to regard the formidable challenges of 21st century education? And how tin they accept payoff of novel opportunities? Those questions volition live on at the pump of the 8th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP), which volition live on held this calendar week inwards Lisbon. Hosted yesteryear the Portuguese Ministry of Education, amongst back upwards from the OECD too Education International, the Summit brings together educational activity ministers, spousal human relationship leaders too other instructor leaders to part their insights too reverberate on world educational activity policy.
Charting a class forrard volition non live on uncomplicated or straightforward – exactly it is absolutely necessary.
Over the class of 2 days (22-23 March), attendees volition address iii interrelated issues. The commencement session focuses on schools, too how policy-makers too the teaching profession tin strengthen links betwixt schools too their communities. Schools are vital to the social wellness of their local communities, too the well-nigh successful schools are oftentimes those that are at the pump of their cities, towns too neighborhoods. Engaging amongst local communities is hence telephone commutation to success, equally it is clear that no schoolhouse exists inwards a vacuum.
The minute session gets to the pump of education: pedagogy. Many teachers receive got a proficient feel of the variety of pedagogies on which 21st century learning hinges, exactly in that place is nonetheless a pregnant gap betwixt intended too implemented practices. The challenge for educational activity systems is to create weather that volition encourage teachers to initiate, part too evaluate innovative pedagogies – including novel technologies -- too to anticipate whatever impacts such pedagogies may receive got on the roles of students too teachers.
In the 3rd session, nosotros volition plow our attending to teachers themselves. There is a growing recognition that inwards monastic tell for teaching too learning to live on well-nigh effective, teachers demand to receive got high levels of well-being, self-efficacy too confidence. How tin governments, inwards partnership amongst teachers’ unions, create evidence-informed strategies on well-being, efficacy too effectiveness equally role of their instructor policies?
Over the years, the ISTP has established itself of the well-nigh unique too successful educational activity summits inwards the dry reason – inwards part, because it explores hard too controversial issues on the dry reason of audio evidence, provided yesteryear the OECD. The eighth edition of the Summit volition live on no different, too I am rattling much looking forrard to the discussions too debates. Charting a class forrard for teachers volition non live on uncomplicated or straightforward – exactly it is absolutely necessary. Today’s students volition human face upwards vastly unlike challenges yesteryear the fourth dimension they accomplish adulthood. We should do everything nosotros tin to brand certain they’re prepared.
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