5th School Choice National Conference, 20th December 2013

Practice 2025: Teaching for Understanding

Isabel SutcliffeInternational Standards & Quality DirectorPearson

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Presentation Outline

What are the issues all nations seek to address in their education policies?

Are there common trends emerging worldwide?

What are the trends in Curriculum Development, Assessment and Pedagogy?

Example developments within India

Global educational policy issues

•Defining learning & skills needs for the 21st century•Nurturing global citizens•Maintaining, building global competitiveness & economic growth•Achieving sustainability•Matching/setting best practice•Ensuring employability•Redressing the knowledge, understanding, skills imbalance•Maintaining, improving access & equity•Teacher capacity, capability & professionalism•Harnessing technology in fit for purpose ways•Setting minimum standards & measuring outcomes•Embedding culture of continuous improvement by raising aspirations

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Emerging International Trends

•Large scale education and skills development reforms & investment•Encouragement of private sector involvement – leading to greater variety & diversity of provision•Centralised curricula & national testing systems•Move to student-centred learning & moves away from marks to standards/grades as reporting methods•Focus on process & outcomes more than inputs•Focus on the individual student•Growth of Qualification Frameworks as benchmarking tools•Break with rote learning & emphasis on ‘21st century skills’•Search for ‘best in class’ – increasing internationalisation, eg PISA•Employer engagement •Use of technology for learning as well as for delivery, reporting and management tools•FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY WITH ACCOUNTABILITY

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Emerging International Trends

Common Trends in Curriculum Development, Assessment & Pedagogy

•Curriculum written as expected outcomes (KSU) in the form of development continua, age and stage related K-12•Pre-defined standards of attainment used to demarcate points – usually age-related - along the continuum•Expected learning outcomes at points along the continuum aligned with assessment – formative, school-based and external•Empowering students in the learning process by the sharing of learning objectives & outcomes aligned with the standards of attainment•Recognition of assessment for learning and the integration of assessment with teaching & learning•School-based assessment with external validation on the ascendancy•Use of qualification frameworks as the means by which certificated achieved outcomes might be referenced

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Exemplification of Trends

•Integration of Teaching, Learning & Assessment•Standards-referenced Assessment•Standards-referenced Reporting •Aligning lesson plans with standards-based curriculum, predefined standards of attainment & learning outcomes•Students involved in preparation, execution and reviewing the results of assessment tasks•Standardised means of reporting outcomes, standards, including national and internationally-referenced qualification frameworks

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Solutions

Solutions

Teaching for Understanding

Encourage application based learning & evaluation

Help master higher order thinking Skills

Carry out regular class-room based assessment to track students’ progress

Teaching for Understanding

Use Standardized Assessments designed to measure the learning skills & Outcomes

Provide feedback on learning gaps of the student, batch analysis for schools & teachers

•Mandatory Professional Development of teachers and leaders •Empower students in the learning & assessment process through the use of explicit learning objectives & expected outcomes with assessment at the core•Involve the wider community in the development – and delivery ? - of relevant, enquiry-based curriculum•Break the link between teaching, text book and examination – consider more school-based assessment, with external validation•Integrate academic and skills-based learning•Embed ‘21st century skills’•Review factors used to measure educational improvement – from inputs to process & outcomes•Use a Quality Assured Standardised Framework of reporting outcomeshealth• Standardization all across

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Possible actions for further reflection, further consideration

Thankyou