The document discusses several educational sector reforms focused on innovation: 1. The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation works with countries to develop skills like creativity, critical thinking, and social/behavioral skills. 2. Italy launched a digital schools plan to use technology to catalyze innovation through new teaching practices and tools. 3. Several countries in Asia are emphasizing creativity/critical thinking in curricula, like Korea devoting 10% of time to transversal projects fostering creativity.

1. Educational
Sector Reforms
on the Theme
"innovate"
The Sparks Foundation
by Rishika
Choudhary

2. The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI)
works with schools, higher
education institutions, and experts within 14 OECD countries to
develop a common, teacher-
friendly language about creativity and critical thinking. The work thus
aims to improve the
quality of learning and teaching within participating countries and to
showcase how education
could enhance students’ well-being and employability in innovative
societies, with a balanced
attention to students’ technical, creative, critical but also social and
behavioural skill
The Italian National Plan for Digital Schools (Piano Nazionale Scuola
Digitale)
It was launched by the Ministry of
Education in 2007 to mainstream Information Communication
Technology (ICT) in Italian classrooms and use
technology as a catalyser of innovation in Italian education. The aim
was that it would be conducive to new teaching
practices, new models of school organisation, new products and tools
to support quality teaching. The Plan was to
equip Italian classrooms with ICTs, namely interactive whiteboards.
THE OECD CENTRE FOR
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
AND INNOVATION (CERI)
This Poster sheds new light on how these reforms may help or
hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer
technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher
evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance
in public schools.
Educational
Sector Reforms
Theme- Innovate
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GRIP JANUARY 2022 BATCHHUMAN RESOURCES INTERN

3. Even in many Asian economies, where education systems
have typically been associated
with traditional learning models and a narrow focus on STEM
subjects, there are signs of new
efforts to emphasise creativity and critical thinking in national
curricula. Since 2009, the Republic
of Korea expects its schools to foster creativity as part of
subject-based learning, but also to devote
almost 10% of overall school time to projects and other
transversal activities that foster creativity.
By the end of secondary school, students in Singapore are
expected to have developed critical and
inventive thinking skills as well as social and emotional
abilities such as being “resilient in the face
of adversity”. Singapore has also adopted a mathematics
curriculum based around metacognitive
approaches to complex problem solving. In the People’s
Republic of China, since 2009, more
emphasis has been placed on changing traditional teaching
models.
THE OECD CENTRE FOR
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
AND INNOVATION (CERI)
This Poster sheds new light on how these reforms may help or
hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer
technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher
evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance
in public schools.
Educational
Sector Reforms
Theme- Innovate
THE SPARKS FOUNDATION
GRIP JANUARY 2022 BATCHHUMAN RESOURCES INTERN

4. In Indonesia, the practice
of “lesson study” aims to promote professional learning
among teachers and help them to reflect
on their teaching methods and align those methods with
the needs of students.
The Apeejay school network, for example, promotes
educational programmes for creativity
and innovation, with practices such as enquiry-based
projects designed to develop creativity
and original thinking. Not all efforts need to take place in
the classroom, however. In Costa
Rica, for example, the Innovating at Home programme
aims to teach parents how to develop
their children’s creativity from an early age.
THE OECD CENTRE
FOR EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION
(CERI)
This Poster sheds new light on how these reforms may help or
hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer
technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher
evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance
in public schools.
Educational
Sector Reforms
Theme- Innovate

5. The INJAZ Junior Achievement
programme in the Middle East aims
to provide business skills and
financial literacy to students in
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates through a
mixture of classroom and
extracurricular activities.
THE INJAZ
JUNIOR
ACHIEVEMENT
PROGRAMME
This Poster sheds new light on how these reforms may help or
hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer
technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher
evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance
in public schools.
Educational
Sector Reforms
Theme- Innovate
THE SPARKS FOUNDATION
GRIP JANUARY 2022 BATCHHUMAN RESOURCES INTERN

6. 1. Content Curriculum and Pedagogy
The conventional 10+2 school curricula
structure is to be replaced by a
5+3+3+4 structure corresponding to
ages 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years
respectively. This implies that a student
must have 12 years of schooling
preceded by 3 years of Anganwadi or
pre-schooling experience.
To implement this change at grassroots
levels, curriculum, content, and
pedagogy restructuring must be done as
per the NCF (National Curriculum
Framework) and content revisited in
textbooks.
THE NEP 2020
Integrating different courses is the latest trend of the 21st-century academic
sphere. Introducing robotics in the curriculum, especially for STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), is in high demand these days.
Implementation of robotics in the curriculum can be highly motivating for
students.
Educational
Sector Reforms
Theme- Integrate
THE SPARKS FOUNDATION
GRIP JANUARY 2022 BATCHHUMAN RESOURCES INTERN

7. 2.Technology with Learning and
Teaching Process
A regulatory body NEAT (National
Educational Alliance for
Technology) has been set up to
integrate technology for better
learning outcomes. NEAT aims to
use Artificial Intelligence to
personalize learning experience
depending on learner's
requirement.
THE NEP
2020
Integrating different courses is the latest trend of the 21st-century academic
sphere. Introducing robotics in the curriculum, especially for STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), is in high demand these days.
Implementation of robotics in the curriculum can be highly motivating for
students.
Educational
Sector Reforms
Theme- Integrate
THE SPARKS FOUNDATION
GRIP JANUARY 2022 BATCHHUMAN RESOURCES INTERN

8. Human Resources Intern at THE SPARKS
FOUNDATION GRIPJANUARY22
RISHIKA
CHOUDHARY