Download 10-11 October 2013 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels

Every Classroom A Future Classroom
10-11 October 2013
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels
Decades of research and investment in Europe have demonstrated some key drivers
and mechanisms for improving standards in schools. Each country has its own
examples of excellent, leading edge schools producing impressive results. However,
a clear challenge remains - the mainstreaming gap.
Since September 2010 a partnership of leading education suppliers, researchers and
European education ministries has been working on overcoming this challenge,
through the European Commission supported iTEC project. The outcome is the
development of a systemic approach to ensuring that school innovation and
advanced teaching practices can be adopted and exploited by all European schools.
This “Every Classroom a Future Classroom” conference aims to ensure that iTEC’s
first valuable outcomes are understood and can be fully exploited by its participants.
Invited participants are key education system stakeholders.
Initial project impact has been provided through development and piloting of learning
and teaching scenarios in more than 1,000 classrooms across 17 countries. Through
this work the partnership has developed effective mechanisms for ensuring that the
advancement of schools, and of teaching practice keep pace with changes in society
and technology.
The conference will present a comprehensive and systematic model for delivering
progressive learning development. This model has the flexibility to meet the
challenges of each country, region and school. The approach combines scalable
processes for the adoption of advanced competencies by teachers, 21st century skills
for learners and change management for schools. Implicit in the process is ongoing
collaboration of policy makers, innovators, practitioners and suppliers.
The conference objective is to reach agreement on how to up-scale the adoption by
suppliers, researchers, regional authorities, ministries and all stakeholders who have
a role, and indeed responsibility, in taking the necessary action to meet Europe’s
current and future learning challenges.
For more detail of the iTEC project please visit: http://itec.eun.org