Russia will present the best educational practices at the international educational summit GELP

31 October 2017

Achievements of the educational system of Russia, the best domestic innovations in the field of education will be presented to the international community as part of the educational summit Global Education Leaders’ Partnership (GELP), which will be held in Moscow on November 1-3, 2017 for the first time.

The topic of the summit is “Education for a complex world: why, what and how to teach in the 21st century”, which was proposed by the Russian party and approved by foreign colleagues. The forum will become a platform for discussing educational standards, searching for ideas, projects and forming a global agenda for the development of a new system of teaching schoolchildren.

“We in Russia are currently discussing new models of mass school education adequate to the challenges of the modern world. In these 3 days we will have an opportunity to discuss successful world and Russian practices with people who form educational policy and determine the vectors of the development of school education. The summit is a unique platform for the dialogue between Russian education specialists and our international colleagues having experience in solving similar problems, for example, in Finland, Singapore, South Korea, Canada and other countries,” said Svetlana Chupsheva, Director General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, on the eve of the forum.

In her opinion, it is necessary that promising projects for the development of Russian education use the best world practices regarding the content of educational programs, new formats of education, digitalization and personalization tools, training of new teachers and administrative personnel, and development of infrastructure.

The program of the summit includes plenary sessions, round tables, group discussions, consultations. Participants will discuss the direction in which the content of the curriculum will be developed, what new methods of assessing the content of education should be used, how to change the teaching methods and the forms of the organization of the educational process. The subject of discussions will be the areas of state support for new forms of education, the role in the development of public institutions and associations - private investors, social entrepreneurs, parents’ communities. Also, it will be about what skills and competencies the current schoolchildren will need, what is important for teachers to know and to do.

At the end of the summit, a plenary session will be held, in which representatives of federal and regional authorities, as well as non-profit associations related to the development of education, science and the social area, will take part. Participants in the plenary session will discuss strategies for the formation of school education in the 21st century.

The results of joint work of experts and representatives of government authorities will take shape in the roadmap for the development of promising practices in the Russian educational system.

GELP group was involved in the development of the Russian summit agenda and included the following key experts of innovative school education: Federal Institute of Education Development (A. Asmolov), HSE University’s Institute of Education (I. Frumin, P. Sergomanov), Sberbank’s Charity Fund “Contribution to the Future” (Yu. Chechet), Moscow State Pedagogical University (I. Remorenko), Rybakov Foundation (N. Kiyasov), Global Education Futures (P. Luksha) and others.

The Group identified three main agenda items:

the formation and development of a “complex person”: the determination of a package of competencies that will contribute to the preparation of the next generation for the future supercomplex (technological and information) society;
the development of educational ecosystems: the creation of new educational environments in which a “complex person” can be formed;
“new” stakeholders: identification and development of key players (both existing and completely new ones) that will be able to form the educational environments of the future.

T. MacKay and V. Hannon, the founders of GELP, rated the agenda as “revolutionary” and “perhaps the most interesting agenda since the foundation of the network”.

Along with Russian experts, experts from the following foreign countries will perform at the summit: Argentina, Brazil, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Canada, South Korea, India, New Zealand and others, including GELP co-founders:

Anthony MacKay, one of the key participants in educational reforms in the ASEAN region (Australia)
Valerie Hannon, Program Manager for Education Reform in a number of countries in Europe, the United States, Australia and Africa (UK)
Kai-Ming Cheng, an emeritus professor of educational sciences at the University of Hong Kong, who helped promote educational reforms in more than 10 states (China)
Sandra Miligan, who created the remote MEP learning course, thanks to which more than 30 thousand teachers have improved their qualifications (Australia)
Michael Stevenson, Senior Advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (UK).

The co-organizers of the summit are Sberbank’s Charity Fund “Contribution to the Future”, Rybakov Foundation, Institute for the Development of Education of the Higher School of Economics. Support is provided by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) and Global Education Futures (GEF) established in Russia.

REFERENCE

Global Education Leaders’ Partnership (GELP) is an international alliance of educational leaders from Finland, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, South Africa, USA, Canada, Spain, Great Britain, China, India, New Zealand, established in 2009. GELP also cooperates with industry associations in Russia, France, the United States, Qatar, Canada and other countries. It has 13 offices in 9 states on 6 continents and conducts 12 international training events in different countries annually. The work of GELP is aimed at a global transformation of the educational system so that every student can develop and live a full life in the complex world of the 21st century.

Global Education Future (GEF) is an international platform, founded in Russia in 2007, which operates in a project mode and brings together leaders of global education, innovators, founders of start-ups, investors, heads of educational institutions and administrators of national and supranational levels to discuss and transform conventional educational systems into educational ecosystems.