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EDUCATION STAKEHOLDERS' ROUNDTABLE
1st International Roundtable
October 1-6, 1999
RESULTS OF THIRD DAY OF DELIBERATION
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
How do we transform education?
- What is the role of the school building; disconnect between what learn at school and how we respond in life
- About environment, family, elders, community not one solution that will work for world
- Curriculum irrelevant if it doesn't meet needs of child and community
- Separate principle from application which can be useful for guiding and application of curriculum application
- Teacher training who is training the trainer
- Education has been how to, rather than what for
- How to make teacher training programs more universal in application to different states and countries
- Value placed on teacher
- What is education for the child
- Asian culture education most important thing
- Want to achieve the change of society to support the education reform agenda
- More democracies less civil rights , rich richer and poor poorer
- Education for what?
What is the outcome/goals?
- Change is needed in education
- Examples of best practice, daring to be different
- What are the issues and what is working
- Various voices common framework Presentation style in a different way, show change in presentation
- Example of kind of learning we are thinking about.
What can we do?
- Distance Learning
- Access to Learning
- Interactive learning
- Un organization www.un.org/cyberschoolbus
- Teacher Training
- International issues / assist teachers with information to pass on to students
- UN School Kit- Print materials
- Education Entrepreneurship
- Educational Materials
- Participate in real programs
- Work with internet
- Teachers to Practice
- Commitment to engage in dialogue
- Emerging Leader - initiative
- Issues/needs - starting point
- Principles
- Content
- Local application
- Distance Learning
- How education can prevent war
- Motivation students-learning currently competing best jobs
- Social service- connection part of group wanting to serve
- Ongoing connectivity
- Local community more networking electronic communications
- Goals and visual excitement
- Influence business community, share concepts partnership civil society
- Goals quality , access indicators
- Knowledge to be useful for life
- Teacher training how can use resources
- Culture of tolerance and peace
- Curriculum on line
- Collaborative for learning sharing
- Guidelines put on Web site
- Course design that can become requirement for social / emotional learning, experiences that transform them
- Focus needs to be on learning not knowing
- Learning to co-create
- Learning to be change to becoming (not content that we have arrived
- Coping with uncertainty
- Creating supportive environments
- Content secondary to process
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