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INTERVIEW EVGENY BARANOVSKY, Chairman, EIED Unfold the Mysteries of the Future of Education with a Global Perspective of Pedagogical Best Practices European Institute for Education Development (Poland) is organizing Global International Pedagogical Forum (IPF- 2019) in association with NL Stichting Education Support (Netherlands) from 4th – 8th November 2019. The forum to be held simultaneously in Helsinki, Singapore, Warsaw, Washington D.C. and Berlin, will see a participation of more than 2000 teachers from different countries. Millions of teachers across the globe are expected to sign-up for online live access of the proceedings of the forum. EIED has tied up with International Council for School Leadership (ICSL) to encourage teachers from India to participate actively in the IPF-2019. The Progressive Teacher interviewed Evgeny Baranovsky, Chairman, EIED to know more about the organization and the forum. 20| www.progressiveteacher.in
What are the different activities that EIED undertakes for professional development of teachers? EIED and NL Stichting Education Support (SES) based in Netherlands organizes school teachers’ international experience exchange. We actively communicate with teachers’ associations from various countries, national governments, and diplomats to identify and contact teachers in their country who create and implement the most progressive educational methodologies and who are able to share this experience with their colleagues from different countries. How did the idea of Global International Pedagogical Forum 2019 originate? For more than ten years I have been organizing international pedagogical forums in various countries. Regardless of the forum’s location, the issues which teachers face in their daily practice are more or less the same. A teacher wants to teach a class effectively. A teacher wants to educate a kid. Therefore, teachers communicate with each other with pleasure, sharing their experiences, education systems, and innovative practices that they can implement. Nowadays, technology has made it possible to collect and distribute the best teaching practices among teachers around the whole world to give them an opportunity to easily use these in their classrooms. What was the rationale behind choosing the locations for IPF 2019? We would like to examine and present the experiences of not only those countries where education is considered as the best in the World like Singapore and Finland, but also countries that are facing various issues with schools and to examine how teachers in those countries solve them. As we know, Germany is witnessing a strong demand for methodologies to educate pupils of migrants; the USA has a burning issue of bullying at schools and in Poland school teachers’ strike is at an unprecedented scale. IPF 2019 is definitely poised to become the World’s largest education conference in terms of participation of teachers. Do you feel that the scale of IPF 2019 is over ambitious? No, I do not feel the scale of the event is over ambitious. However, the aim of this event is very ambitious. The real ambition is not in the number of venues but in the desire to help each teacher in every country by providing the best educational content. The content generated during IPF 2019 will be a huge encyclopedia of educational methodologies and techniques from all over the world. This pool of knowledge will allow teachers to increase the effectiveness of classes and improve the quality of school education. How many countries are expected to participate in IPF 2019? Almost half of the existing countries have already sent or have agreed to send their list of participants. But, we are aiming to find the best teachers in every country. We believe that a dedicated teacher is the one who raises and educates future presidents and super businessmen not in a greenhouse of the government but without any government support. We are hoping to find such teachers in all countries despite the political regime and economic situation of the country. How can teachers from India participate? We are expecting about 90,000 teachers from India to benefit from IPF 2019. To participate, teachers will have to fill a registration form on the ICSL website www.icsl.org.in Once their application is processed, they will be able to join the live stream of all sessions of the forum at any of the venues or access the recorded broadcasts. Will teachers be able to access the IPF 2019 content after the forum is over? Yes, teachers can access all the content and recordings of the forum till September 2020. This gives them the freedom to review the best practices and innovative methodologies at their own pace and use the same in their classrooms. How will teachers benefit from participating in the IPF 2019? I strongly believe that teachers will get exposure to a wide spectrum of commonly faced universal challenges in education such as inclusive education, working with underprivileged children, combating violence and aggression in schools, identifying and working with gifted children, modern motivation systems, and advanced methods of teaching and raising children. The main aim of the Global International Pedagogical Forum is to raise the status of teaching profession. Teacher is the person most responsible for the future of the world. Teacher is the one who motivates young people to solve global problems and inculcates innovative ideas. Teachers affect younger generations for years by forming the vision of the future and attitude towards current events. Participating teachers will learn about the different ways of resolving global issues and developing values and skills, required in the contemporary society. IPF 2019 will also address the gaps in the common understanding of goals of education in contemporary ever-changing global environment. Educational programs of schools and universities in several countries do not meet requirements of the modern world. This results in discrepancy between knowledge of high school graduates and university expectations, and between skillsets of bachelors and employers’ requirements. A discrepancy between students’ grades and their real skills leads to not only negatively impact the labor market but also effects the image of higher education, decreases the status of teacher’s profession and education in general. IPF-2019, in turn, promotes a totally opposite trend in education development and indeed increases the status of school teacher. www.icsl.org.in | 21
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