Oral Statement 88th Session CERI Governing Board

16 April 2013

Dirk Van DammeHead of the IMEP division – OECD/EDU

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• Jarl Bengtsson was Head of CERI from its start in 1972 till his retirement in 2002

• He passed away on 5 December 2012• We honour his legacy

– His work on lifelong learning– His interest in school-work transition and youth

unemployment– His pioneering work on educational statistics and

indicators– His work on brain research and learning science– His deep interest in innovation, but also in policy

relevance

Jarl Bengtsson (°1937-†2012)

CERI Governing Board

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Has left the GB:• Tae-Wan Kim, Korea

– replaced by Mr. Sun-Geun Baek

Will be leaving the GB:• Richard Bartholomew, UK• Francisco Lagos Marin, Chile

Governing Board Members

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Have joined the GB:• Rien Rouw, the Netherlands• Maria Rodriguez Moneo, Spain

Governing Board Members

CERI Governing BoardCERI Project

Updates

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• Analysis of TALIS 2008 data, TALIS/CERI thematic report– Teaching Practices and Pedagogical Innovation (2012)

• Co-organisation with University of Cambridge and Education International– Sustaining Teachers’ Professional Growth Workshop,

Cambridge – February 2013

• Continued work on case studies of innovative math & science teaching in Singapore, China, Romania, Mexico...

• Co-organisation with Center for Curriculum Redesign – 21st Century Math Conference, Stockholm, 22-24 April 2013

Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning (ITEL)

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• Continued work on how learning research can inform teachers’ pedagogical knowledge– Literature reviews & Development of a conceptual

framework– Expert group meeting planned

• Analytical comparisons of codifications of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge– Competency frameworks– Professional standards, Certification requirements

Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning (ITEL)

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• Development of a measurement tool to assess the quality of the knowledge base in the profession (not to assess individual teachers’ quality)– Validation and peer review of conceptual framework

– Item and instrument development

– Pilot testing (?)

Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning (ITEL)

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• Major discussion on ILE at previous Governing Board meeting in October 2012

• The ILE conference jointly organized with the Ministry of Education, Chile took place in Santiago 7-9 January 2013, attended by 115 participants from over 20 countries – excellent discussions

• The ‘Innovative Cases’ report revised to incorporate comments from last Governing Board and extensive feedback from Santiago – publication date: July/August 2013.

Innovative Learning Environments (ILE)

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• Strand 3 on ‘Implementation and Change’ now has 30 systems participating – the questionnaire for the monitoring notes was sent out early April 2013

• The work with ‘laboratories of learning change’ is taking place with a small number of volunteer systems – a 1st workshop 11-12 July 2013 and a 2nd in mid-2014.– Possible line-up: British Columbia, Canada; French Belgium;

KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; New Zealand; Colegios Peruanos network, Peru

Innovative Learning Environments (ILE)

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• Next ILE coordinators’ meeting 3 December 2013 followed by international seminar on learning leadership 4-5 December, Barcelona

• ILE preparing a chapter for Education Policy Outlook 2014 publication

• Working up to a major horizontal CERI conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform, latter half 2014

Innovative Learning Environments (ILE)

CERI Governing Board

CERI Conferences & Publications

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Upcoming Events

• Center for Curriculum Redesign/CERI Conference on 21st Century Mathematics in Stockholm, 22-24 April 2013

• Thematic Conference on Effective Multilevel Governance in Education, jointly organized by OECD & UNESCO, to be held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 17-18 June 2013

• Conference on the Science of Learning, jointly organised by OECD/CERI, NSF, UNESCO, HKU, ECNU and SNU in Shanghai on 3-4 March 2014

• Informal Ministerial on Skills for Social Progress, jointly organised by OECD/CERI and Brazil, in Sao Paulo on 24-25 March 2014

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• Books– Trends Shaping Education 2013– Education Today 2013

• Working Papers & Reports– Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools– Learning from International Experiences with

Interactive Whiteboards– Progression in Student Creativity in School– Looking Beyond the Numbers: Stakeholders and

Multiple School Accountability

CERI Publications

CERI Governing Board

CERI Staff Movements

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• Sonia Guerriero has moved to CERI from the PISA team to be the project leader for the Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning (ITEL) project

• Francesco Avvisati has left CERI to work on a temporary assignment with the PISA team

• Kiira Kärkäinen will leave CERI after having worked 5 years on the University Futures and Innovation Strategy projects

• Marina Ma has joined CERI as an intern to work on the Innovative Learning Environments project

• Elodie de Oliveira has joined CERI as a consultant to work on the Education and Social Project (ESP) project

Staff movements

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