Webinar: What does the future of education hold?
As we think about the challenges of the past year, this insightful conversation will touch upon the direction of travel for education. The pandemic has exposed many of the challenges within and beyond education. This interactive session will consider the purpose of education, the future of teaching whilst thinking about the need for a long-term plan and vision for education.
This webinar was a partnership event with the Chartered College of Teaching and The Foundation for Education Development. The Foundation for Education Development (FED) is a community interest company established to promote the benefits of a long-term vision and plan for education in England. Founded in December 2019, it is an independent, non-political, and cross-sector body. They provide a neutral space for this discussion and have no preconceived ideas about the outcome of this discussion, other than that this important discussion happens with all relevant stakeholders.
In the webinar we heard from Professor Dame Alison Peacock (Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching), Carl Ward FCCT (Chair of the Foundation for Education Development), and Joe Arday FCCT (Teacher, Woodbridge High School) as they talked about the future of education.
Shared resources:
- Download the audio transcript
- Join the discussion on the #FutureofTeaching
- The National Education Consultation Report
- Our ‘Education in times of crisis’ reports look at possible impacts of the pandemic on teaching. We’re currently asking teachers to participate in our survey for the next report
- FEDSpace Events
- Our report on the quality assurance of teachers’ CPD came out a couple of weeks ago and is something we think is very important
- Councils have been set up to help engage and inform 4 workstreams. People can email the FED and put themselves forward to sitting on a council and also how they would like to support the work of the FED and act as a champion of it: https://fed.education/contact/
- Our Early Career Fest is coming at the end of the month and we’ve got some good events lined up as part of it
- FED have a huge amount of freely available video resources
- Interested in developing your expertise in using evidence to inform your practice?
Speakers:
Professor Dame Alison Peacock
Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching
Alison has been a teacher all her career. She began teaching at a comprehensive school in Harlow and then moved to a large Community College in Syston Leicestershire. After that she moved to Hertfordshire where she was a member of the advisory service. During a career break when Catherine and Elizabeth were born, she studied at the University of Cambridge for an MEd in Early Years and InclusionAn approach where a school aims to ensure that all children are educated together, with support for those who require it to access the full curriculum and contribute to and participate in all aspects of school life. When she returned to teaching she worked in primary schools until becoming the headteacher of The Wroxham School in Potters Bar. A research study took place documenting her leadership as the school moved from special measures to ‘outstanding’. She worked as an insider-researcher and co-wrote Creating Learning without Limits (2012). She subsequently wrote Assessment for LearningKnown as AfL for short, and also known as formative assessment, this is the process of gathering evidence through assessment to inform and support next steps for a students’ teaching and learning without Limits (2016). Moving to the Chartered College from Jan 2017 has been very challenging but never boring! Lucky to work with such a brilliant team.
Carl Ward FCCT
Chief Executive, Foundation for Education Development (FED)
Carl is Chief Executive of the City Learning Trust; a 3 to 19 MATMulti-academy trust - a group of schools working in collaboration, governed by a single set of members and directors in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire and Chair of the Foundation for Education Development. He has regional, national and international experience in leadership development and school to school improvement and has supported national and international projects and conferences for a range of organisations.
Website: https://fed.education/
Joe Arday FCCT
Teacher, Woodbridge High School
Joe has been a teacher since 2010 and currently teaches Computing at Woodbridge High School. He is a passionate and experienced educator as well as a keen promoter of young people embracing STEM and Enterprise. He is an NCCE CS Champion consultant for London / East of England regions, a STEM ambassador with STEM Learning UK, a CAS Master Teacher with Computing at School and a Microsoft Certified Educator. Joe is also a mentor in raising aspirations for BAME young people and a Fellow with chartered college of teaching.
Twitter: @JoeArday
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joearday/
