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How to make Education more relevant (and fun)
Fred VerboonDirector
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Our students are changing
• The “21st century learner”:– Prefers internet for research– Learns from images, sound, colours– Communicates via social media– Searches Twitter for the lastest news
* Purcell, K. , Rainie, L., Heaps, A., Buchanan, J., Friedrich, L., Jacklin, A., Chen, C., Zickuhr, K., (2012), PEW Research Center (2012): How Teens Do Research in the Digital World
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Our economy is changing• Unified Europe:
– New markets, different cultures, new languages
• Internet changes economies:– Consumers can and will compare online– Online markets change distribution channels (retail) – Changes communications: postal services, telephony
• Internet changes value perceptions:– If information is always available, you need to differentiate.– Creativity, branding, image becomes valuable– Production is not a differentiating factor and out sourced to low
income countries
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The role of teachers is changing• Children have all the information they want, anytime, anywhere
• Teachers no longer are the experts or primary source for information
• Teachers do know…….– where to find relevant information– that information is sometimes biased– how to combine and reflect on information– how to learn and set personalized learning goals
• Teachers will become learning coaches, aimed at realizing personal potental of each student
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Today, we..
•educate by lecturing, while the majority of lectures is available online,
•still build schools with class rooms, so we can continue lecturing,
•ask children to be quiet and listen….
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The school heads perspective:How can we make people
feel that they belong at school, work towards clear goals and feel
appreciated
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Education changes:
Pisa 2018: focus on 21st century skills.
Government change education policies
Can school heads change their schools?
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School autonomy Detailed national curriculum More autonomyCyprus BelgiumFrance CroatiaGermany DenmarkItaly EstoniaIreland FinlandSpain Iceland Scotland Lituania
NetherlandsNorwaySloveniaSweden
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Autonomy + innovative Detailed national curriculum More autonomyCyprus BelgiumFrance CroatiaGermany DenmarkItaly EstoniaIreland FinlandSpain Iceland Scotland Lituania
NetherlandsNorwaySloveniaSweden
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Relation with RETAIN
In 18/13 countries: school heads are influential or even the decisive factor*
Their goal: People will stay if the feel they belong, are appreciated and work towards clear goals.
Means of the school head: - Quality management - Resistance to change- Pedagogies
*(2014, ESHA market reseach)
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Quality management
Q4I project (2015)
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Quality management
- Identity: sense of belonging- Goals: sense of achievement- Personal Growth Plans:
can a teacher stop learning?
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Resistance to change
• Organisational aspects:– Learning organisation: support experimentation,
appecriate lear ings through success and failure.– Every teacher should have a development plan
• Personal aspects: – Teachers are risk averse, innovation means taking
risks. – How do people deal with insecurities?
Carneiro, Verboon (2013)
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Resistance to change
Key deliverables:– Tool: measure Emotional Intelligence &
Organisational Intelligence– Course:
OI: how to create an open creative environmentEI: how to be more perceptive to innovations
http://www.iguana-project.eu/
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Pedagogies for 21st century schools
• Focus on learn to learn
• Learning is fun and challenging
• 21st Century skills (Information Literacy, Problem-solving, Creativity and experimentation)
• Attitudes and values– Curiosity– Differences and change are celebrated (Individual learning goals)– Not necessarily to find a ‘correct’ answer (Focus on rewarding students, no
public grading) – Every student feels important– Active classroom learning
• Teachers as Model Lifelong Learners
• Education is organized both horizontally and vertically
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Are 21st century schools successful?
• Research: 20 high performing colleges and universities– engage students individually: Staff know their
students: who they are, where they came from, what motivates and inspires the students and where they hope to go.
– faculty focus on active classroom learning (Flipping Classrooms project, Entrepreneurial learning)
Iowa State University research
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Entrepreneurial learning process
• Students go through an actual entrepreneurial learning process in which they influence and own their individual learning path*.
• Students actively participate in and even lead their learning efforts.
• Entrepreneurial learning is the opposite of traditional classroom learning.
* Kyrö, 2005
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EE relevance
• Entrepreneurial education leads to an increase in perceived relevancy, engagement and motivation
• For both students and teachers
(Surlemont, 2007)