Education we want
Education We Want is a Non-Profit Initiative of Global Classroom Pvt Ltd. You are invited to join:
| 1. Ed Leadership Conferences | Education We Want believes that education in the 21st century needs to be radically different from the 19th century models of education we have become accustomed to. In this new model, universal values are embedded in the framework of education itself. Becoming "good" or virtuous is given more importance than becoming "smart" or competent, though both are considered important aspects of education in this new century. |
| 2. The BIG Picture Conclaves | |
| 3. Synergy Workshops | |
| 4. Fellowships & Awards | |
| 5. Global Dream Literacy Campaign |
REVISITING EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
TGlobalTIE: Global Trends and Innovations in Education in 2006, then with Ed Leadership Roundtables every year since 2008.
These efforts have inspired a global movement: Education We Want. Many good thinkers worldwide agree that education needs major reform, not just tinkering small changes at its margins. While the world has changed vastly in the last 100 years, education has remained largely confined to its 19th century material ethics and limited agendas.
What will education be like in the future? What do experiments and evidence show from other countries as to what has worked well in education?
The new Education We Want initiative is a platform for enabling change within education and through it. It also serves as an umbrella for organizations and individuals engaged in making a difference by implementing and sharing innovations of their own. The Ed Leadership Fellowships are being offered again, with the view to initiate more schools nationwide to adopt new and innovative practices that bring out the best in every child. Already over 300 schools have received the Education Innovation Fellowships and have engaged in implementing new and innovative ideas for change.
We invite experts from world's top performing countries in TIMSS and PISA international comparisons to share their research and findings based on practical work in their own countries. Education is the most complex issue of our times and it requires great deliberation. It is a multi-year effort involving all who are concerned about the future of education and thereby our collective future. We invite you to join hands in any capacity and become a part of this great mission.
Indeed, the best way to shape the future is to nurture it!
Why Education We Want?
What we desperately need is a new education based on a new set of ethics and governed by a new set of principles that are more suited to the needs of the 21st century.
- As we review education's goals in the 21st century, some important questions we need to ask are:
- 'Can we convert the Tunnel of Learning, this present educational system, into a Process of Enlightenment?'
- 'What are the outcomes we seek from human potential and the educational process?'
- 'How do we re-organise educational content, its delivery and the educational environment to help every child become both 'good' and 'smart', preserve their selfesteem, and bring out the best of gems hidden within each one?
- Indeed, what do we need to do differently in order to meet the aspirations and address the reality of the world's children?
- How do we re-imagine@school assessments, materials, processes, attitudes, behaviour and training of teachers?
- How do we orient our staff and ourselves?
- What syllabus and curriculum do we adopt at each stage of development, preprimary, primary, middle and senior?
- Which of the new and varied teaching methods do we adopt from among so many good methods: inquiry, multiple intelligences, constructivism, cooperative learning, thematic work, etc.?
- How do we go beyond our 'hunches' to an evidence-informed system of education?
- It is only when we know the outcomes we want, can we refine our approach to teaching and learning and choose the best from existing methods and make innovations of our own that integrate research and a scientific understanding of the child.
Changing the world for, with and through children
An Education We Want
Can a teacher with 20 or more children in a class personalize learning so that every child excels or is this expectation an oxymoron? The experimental underpinnings of a personalised learning programme began in 2000 in Aslandsskoli, Hafnarordur, Iceland. It was the beginning of an experiment with the help of some amazing individuals: Bodvar Jonsson and Steinunn Gudnadottir, Gudrun Petursdottir, Jonina Bjartmas, Hanna Ragnarsdottir and others with whom we started Iceland's first two charter schools.
These efforts have inspired a global movement: Education We Want. Many good thinkers worldwide agree that education needs major reform, not just incremental changes. What will education be like in the future? What do experiments and evidence show from other countries as to what has worked well in education?
The new Education We Want initiative is a platform for enabling change within education and through it. It also serves as an umbrella for organizations and individuals engaged in making a difference by implementing and sharing innovations of their own. The Ed Leadership Fellowships are being offered again, with the view to initiate more schools nationwide to adopt new and innovative practices that bring out the best in every child. Already over 150 schools have received the Education Innovation Fellowships and are engaged in implementing new and innovative ideas for change.
1. Ed Leadership Conferences
Each year, Ed Leadership brings together worldwide experts to share their success stories and engage in conversations that lead to change. Each roundtable since January 2008 has focused on creating an effective engagement between education leaders and experts from across the world.
The discussions that take place at Ed Leadership are some of the most important discussions that are taking place across the globe. Ed Leadership raises the profile of our own thinking on education and at the same time provides opportunity to learn from the best performing countries of the world. Hear from individuals who have been leading change in their own countries.
Together, we can!
Ed Leadership You Are Invited!
Join and share in the conversations that lead to change. Ed Leadership has always been about deliberate and directed discussions that create a better future for the world's children. Every school needs to aspire to do more than it currently does. This is because all children deserve the next, not just the best.
"It is an important platform for principals and policymakers as well as teachers to consult, share and come up with new ideas and innovations to create a new world for education in the 21st century. Congratulations to Dr. Gandhi and her team."
Jiba Nath Aryal, Malpi International School, Kathmandu, Nepal
2. The Big Picture Conclaves
The Big Picture Leadership Training Conclaves and Workshops focus on Creating High Performance Education Systems. They create a platform for global conversations that lead to meaningful and effective change in education.
We want to learn how the top performing countries of the world run their education systems. Finland has consistently been one of the most performing countries of the world with their 15 year olds surpassing 15 year olds from rest of the world, being 3 to 7 years ahead in their academics compared to many other countries.
What innovations make these nations academically the strongest countries in the world with very few drop outs and majority of their children excelling? Can their experience be translated into action within the Indian context? How? The participants can go back feeling empowered with both a new vision and practical steps necessary for the implementation of changes so urgently needed in education today.
TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
- Learn about the latest in educational innovation
- Lessons from top performing countries of the world
- The role of leadership when business as usual is not enough
NEW TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING
- The schools we want and how to nurture them
- Beyond our 'hunches' to innovation informed by research and evidence.
- Enabling meaningful and systemic change
"The workshop was really effective. This definitely improves student learning through easy, effective and interesting ways. We always welcome such concepts and ideas."
"It was a delight to be a part of the workshop. Various strategies taught by you were very informative and 'out of the box'. Already waiting for implementing and bringing 'playground in my classroom' in your words."
Sabita Dikshit, Pune
"Unique and wholesome approach towards education. Total interactive and full participation. An eye opener."
V.V.D. Prasad, Vijaywada
3. Synergy Workshops
Education leaders and teachers are invited to be part of an Education Research and Training initiative across the nation in which each school gains in student and teacher learning simply through participation.
Personalized learning and differentiated teaching to empower every child as an individual have always been desirable goals of schooling. However, due to constraints of limited 'real classroom teaching time', 'class sizes' and 'teacher readiness', they have remained far-fetched dreams for many schools.
In this Largest Education Synergy, research focused training is designed to train school leaders and teachers through simple implementation of one or more study UNITS on syllabus topics. Teachers learn many valuable skills in the process of implementation itself.
All the ideas incorporated in this PROCESS OF PERFECTION are based on worldwide evidence that they lead to mastery, use less time and empower every child. They utilize a new Global MAXIM, the maxim of 'Compete with Yourself'. This brings out greater excellence in everyone.
"This was an innovative workshop and I personally got many things to learn and practice from all the leaders of the workshop."
Dr. Sridhar Joshi, Mysore
"This Research initiative training program develops the interest on subjects in an interesting way. Children get involved with lot of enthusiasm and are eager to learn and try to participate in all the activities. It's a very innovative program."
K.V.C. Padmavathi, Vishakhapatnam
"I think that is a beautiful initiative because children deserve nothing less than the very best. The program was excellent."
Ajay Condra, Mumbai
"It's a nice time to come and join you people because it gave us a number of new ideas to reach every child of the class. It's encouraging for us to go forward with much enthusiasm."
Chaitanya Samyukatha, Hyderabad
SAMPLE PROGRAMME
- REGISTRATION & WELCOME
- RECIPROCAL TEACHING AS ICE BREAKER
- PROCESS OF PERFECTION
- WHAT WORLDWIDE EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH SHOW
- LANGUAGES OF EMPOWERMENT
- FEEDBACK AND CERTIFICATES
Use of Visual Cards and Other Processes
Baseline Survey, Dramatic Presentation, Accelerated Learning, The Control of Error, Closing the Loop / Progress Survey
Most important of 136 factors that influence learning outcomes
4. Fellowships & Awards
Fellowships and awards are our way of saying, "Thank you!" for being an instrument of profound changes in education. It is further to promote greater innovation in education at all levels. Change is needed:
- When business as usual is not enough
- When every child needs a better education
- When education needs a major reform
- When you want to be part of the change process so urgently needed in education today
- When in a country as large as India, there are very few people actually sticking their neck out for a new
Individuals from more than 300 schools in 22 states of India have received the Fellowships and Awards since 2009 when these were first created.
Almost twenty policy makers and individuals from across the global have been honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award.
Your school community is invited to participate by filling out a simple form available on the Education We Want website.
Given the urgency of the need for reform, we must initiate change at all levels: from top-down policy to the bottom-up grassroots.
Fellowships are given for an idea that is yet to be implemented. The idea may be simple yet one you feel has the potential to make an impact, improve the way we do education and / or inspire children in small or big ways.
There are no limits and every school can apply as many ideas as their Principals and staff wish.
An independent jury formed of Principals that volunteer at the next EdWW Conclave, Synergy Workshop or Ed Leadership Roundtables select from the applications. Selection is therefore a fair and transparent process.
The Fellowship form is easy to fill.
An idea or innovation may take three months or a year to put into action and show case impact. It may be for a classroom, a school, an NGO, or a whole district. It may be related to classroom practice or to policy and administration. It may proposed by a teacher or a Principal, an NGO worker or a policy maker.
Fellowship holders are expected to apply for the EdWW Innovator Awards after they have completed implementing their idea. They are expected to produce documentation including anecdotal, qualitative and quantitative data, videos, PPTs, etc., to establish impact. When impact is established, this leads to the Innovator Award.
5. Global Dream
Service Learning The missing factor in schooling Service Learning that provides realworld learning experiences, according to research, is an important predictor of academic outcome, including student attachment to school, school engagement and motivation to learn.
Inviting Schools Better than 14 years of Moral Education By teaching an illiterate person, our children learn more life skills and values than 12-14 years of 'moral education' in the normal course of schooling.
A Nationwide Initiative Just 1 month makes a person reading capable The first pilot was conducted in the summer break of 2014 in which 60,000 children of 150 schools participated. In May and June 2015, more than 250 schools nationwide have participated. We are grateful for the participation of Rotary India Literacy Mission.
Schools Helping Make India Literate
Schools have the potential to make India literate using Global Dream because:
Almost anyone can teach with Global Dream. The Global Dream Toolkit, made after 14 years of research, is designed such that anyone, even a young child of Class III can teach an illiterate person to read.
There is no faster program for literacy. Just 15-30 minutes over a month (or a total of 10-15 hours) are enough to make an average person reading capable and another 10-15 hours over a month to make them numerate.
No fixed location is needed. This means mentors can go to the migrant workers and others who cannot come to them.
No training is required. A little training helps volunteers and mentors to become more confident and learn to treat the learners with great dignity and respect.
No fixed timing is required. Teaching can be done by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Scaling up is possible. By making literacy everyone's mission.
It captures the imagination of young and old alike. Global Dream began with school children and youth. They have done wonders!
The costs are minimal. A low-cost toolkit can be used with multiple learners. The Toolkit is available in 12 national languages. A new Mobile App will allow anyone to download for free and teach.
Schools are invited to come up with innovative ways to involve students in making India literate. Some of the ways are: school based literacy labs, adopt a slum in the school's neighbourhood, participate in each one teach one summer campaign, involve students to ensure everyone in the school building is literate.
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CHILDREN LEADING CHANGE THROUGH EACH ONE REACH AND TEACH at least ONE CAMPAIGN
STEP 1
Encourage children of 6-14 to join regular school unless their special circumstances do not allow them to attend school, in which case they may be enrolled for literacy. You can reach out to any illiterate learner but priority may be given to learners between the ages of 15 and 35.
STEP 2
Study the Global Dream Toolkit and watch Global Dream videos on YouTube to learn how to teach using this toolkit.
STEP 3
Register yourself and your learners online on Global Dream website. Have your learners take a Pre-test.
STEP 4
Cut out the tactile learning materials and put them in ziplock bags. Make three ziplock bags or plastic boxes (1 box for letters, 1 box for pictures, 1 box for matras and pictures related to matras).
STEP 5
Start teaching from Book 1. Take as long as it takes to teach the first six words (and ten letters). Once the methodology is clear to a learner, they can speed up their learning.
STEP 6
Read the Instructor Notes at the bottom or inside the kits. Conduct the activities and play games as suggested, or invent your own.
STEP 7
Keep the materials with you. Lend one book at a time for self-study on 'as needed' basis.
STEP 8
When the learner has mastered all books, monitor the post-test.
STEP 9
Reuse the toolkit and the tactile learning materials for other learners. Invite the neo-literate learners to continue reading with you, or else they will lose all the learning.
STEP 10
Schedule the NLM (National Literacy Mission) Certification test. Download practice tests from the Global Dream website. Get the learner to take this test when s/he is ready. Get your certificate as a Leader of Change and celebrate!
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The best way to shape the future is to nurture it.
Education we want is a non-profit initiative of Global Classroom Pvt. Ltd., to inspire and support innovation and leadership in education.
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