Transforming the teaching profession: innovation in times of crisis - Panel discussion

The Saudi Ministry of Education will organize the International Conference and Exhibition for Education (ICEE) 2022 from 8 to 11 May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the theme “Education in Times of Crises: Opportunities and Challenges”.

As part of this, the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 will organize a panel discussion entitled “Transforming the teaching profession: innovation in times of crisis”.  to explore different forms of innovation to transform the teaching profession during and after crises. This panel discussion aims to explore different forms of innovation to transform the teaching profession during and after crises. The discussions will focus on the following questions:

• What resources, support, and institutional arrangements do teachers need in order to enhance their capacity to innovate in their practice? How can ministries, local districts, school leaders and their peers help?
• How can innovations be documented, analyzed and shared to inform and promote the adoption or scaling up of innovations in teaching and learning?
• What competencies do teachers need to be confident pedagogic innovators, in particular during times of crisis? And how does the curriculum of teacher education need to be rethought to enable teachers to reflect on their practice and produce knowledge that feeds into education policy?
• What are the transformations that education systems need to undergo in order to allow teachers more room for innovation and to amplify their autonomy? What forms of support and resources do they require?
• How can teachers become more prepared to deal with crisis and emergencies and how can teacher policy become more flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances? How can public education systems, embrace local innovations that meet local needs while ensuring consistency in quality and equity?