The 2022 Creativity in Education Summit will take place on 17 and 18 October, 2022. The theme of this year’s event will be “Creative Thinking in Schools: from global policy to local action, from individual subjects to interdisciplinary learning”.
Exploring “building a movement of confident, capable teachers of creativity” and “sharing pedagogies for teaching creative thinking within and across disciplines”, the first-day event will feature a number of high-profile guest speakers.
Focusing on theory in practice, the second-day event will investigate creativity in education case studies from selected primary and secondary schools and organize interactive discussions, inviting representatives from featured schools in the UK, China, Australia, Brazil and the US to share best practice and any lessons learned.
10:00 - 10:10 |
Welcome remarks |
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10:10 - 11:00 |
Keynote Speeches |
Moderation: Bill Lucas, Chair of GIoCT Advisory Board Why creativity and creative teaching and learning matter today and for tomorrow’s world (20 minutes)
China’s Education Modernisation 2035 Plan and the role of creativity in education in China (15 minutes, Prerecorded)
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11:00 - 11:30 | Tea break |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Keynote Speeches |
Moderation: Tia Loukkola, Head of CERI, OECD An overview of creative thinking in schools across the world (20 minutes)
Nurturing creativity through education (15 minutes)
Creativity and sustainability: Sharing a development perspective (10 minutes)
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12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 14:40 |
Panel Discussion 1: Making progress in embedding creative teaching practices in schools |
Moderator: Rachel Sylvester, Chair of The Times Education Commission and political columnist at The Times Panellists:
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14:40 - 15:00 | Tea break |
15:00 - 16:00 |
Panel Discussion 2: Assessing students’ and teachers’ creativity formatively and summatively: promising methods and tools |
Moderator: Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, Deputy head of CERI, OECD Panellists:
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09:30 - 09:35 |
Welcome remarks |
Bill Lucas, Professor of Learning, University of Winchester, UK; Chair of GIoCT Advisory Board |
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09:35 - 10:05 |
Creative thinking in schools across the world and what schools in England can learn from this |
Bill Lucas, Professor of Learning, University of Winchester, UK; Chair of GIoCT Advisory Board Drawing on his report, launched at the event, Bill will give a global overview of progress exploring the inclusion of creative thinking in international, national and state curricula. He will share recent research into curriculum design and pedagogy, review progress in assessing creative thinking and consider the opportunities ahead for creating new approaches to professional development for school leaders and teachers. Bill will share practical applications of his report for school leaders and teachers in England to learn from. |
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10:05 - 10:35 | How teaching for ‘creative thinking’ can unleash new creativities in co-authoring future-making education: What matters? |
Professor Pam Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations, Cambridge University There is a growing recognition of the need to give different types of space and time to offer students the skills and support needed to develop their own style and forms of ‘creative learning’. How do teachers move beyond the traditional question of ‘how creative is X’ (where ‘X’ is a product or person)? When teachers promote the value of diverse creativities (such as design creativity, mathematical creativity, transdisciplinary creativity) they more often enact the teaching of ‘creative thinking’ through ‘creative learning’ while co-authoring futuremaking education (that is, making sense of our flexible and multiple identities while pursuing sustainability and empowerment). In this talk the professor will share some new approaches and ways of thinking differently about ‘creative thinking’ which help to root teachers’ and learners’ practices to strong educational concepts which can unleash new creativities that matter. |
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10:35 - 10:50 | Cultivating Innovative Literacy across Interdisciplinary Curriculum: China’s Policy and Practice |
Guiqing An, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University In the new round of curriculum reform, China has strengthened the practice of interdisciplinary courses in the national curriculum and in the school-based curriculum. With the aim of cultivating innovative literacy, interdisciplinary learning focuses on ‘whole person’ education, comprehensive learning, integrated innovation and embodied action demonstrated through "knowledge integration, problem-solving and value creation". Through practical exploration at the district and school level, we have developed an interdisciplinary model that aims to develop innovative literacy. This model involves school-based interdisciplinary curriculum planning, course design, and unit based thematic learning. To practice this model, schools need systematic support, including professional guidelines, organizational restructuring, resource allocation, and adapted learning spaces. |
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10:50 - 11:10 | Tea break and informal discussions |
11:10 - 12:10 | Workshop 1: China (online + in situ). The Creative Lab in Shanghai |
Wang Bing, Principal of Jiatong University Defu Road Middle School - Xue Sheng, Physics Dep, Beicai High School - and Edward Derbyshire, Head of Drama, Pate’s Grammar School This workshop will describe how schools involved in the Creative Lab initiative in Shanghai have focused on creativity – in curriculum development, classroom practice, and T&L plans. This will be a remote presentation of two examples, “Underwater Drone” and “Hexi Corridor”, with in situ facilitator Edward Derbyshire, leading to group discussions. |
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12:10 - 13:00 | Workshop 2: UK. Let the children play |
Simon Wheeler, Head of Film, and Edrys Barkham, International Admissions Consultant, Bryanston School This workshop will draw upon experience gained at Bryanston School in the UK, an institution renowned for its success in creative, unbounded thinking. This workshop looks at the importance of allowing pupils to organise and take responsibility for their own actions. We use the example of a feature length film made by some of our Sixth Form students at Bryanston in the summer term last year both during and after their A levels exams. |
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13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 14:45 | Workshop 3: The United States Inculcating Creativity into the Learning Ecosystem |
Laura McBain, Co-Interim Managing Director at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and CoDirector of K12 Lab
How might creativity be a part of every aspect of schooling? From daily practices to flex our creative juices to approaching system-level challenges, how might we inculcate creativity and curiosity into the learning ecosystem so that everyone can practice their creative talents and use this creativity to address the challenges facing schools today? Using exercises from the Stanford d.school and examples from US-based schools, we will explore how we might embed creativity into our daily structures and systems within schools.
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14:45 - 15:30 | Workshop 4: Australia / New Zealand Establishing and Teaching Creativity: some practice from Australia and New Zealand |
Dr Michael Anderson, Professor of Creativity and Arts Education in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney This interactive session will provide an overview of some key strategies that have been employed in Australian and New Zealand schools to support and enhance Creativity and Creative Thinking. The Workshop will cover two key initiatives. The first initiative, the Creative Schools Index (CSI) has been trialed in New Zealand and Australian schools to measure Creative environments in primary and secondary schools. CSI is a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the University of Auckland and employs a multidisciplinary mixed-methods approach and features experts in education, creativity, and educational psychology. This research aims to guide stakeholders in education in benchmarking, curriculum design, and reform. The second initiative discusses learning and teaching approaches to creativity in Australian schools. The work emerges from 4C Transformative Learning’s learning and teaching of creativity embedded in the 4Cs approach in over 80 schools and early childhood centres. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of how these initiatives might support professional learning beyond Oceania. |
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15:30 - 15:50 | Tea break and informal discussions |
15:50 - 16:35 | Workshop 5: OECD Parnter States Supporting school-level approaches to fostering creativity |
Cassie Hague, Analyst at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) at the OECD
Cassie Hague, analyst at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation at the OECD will present findings from the international project, Fostering and Assessing Creativity and Critical Thinking. She will highlight the bank of pedagogical resources developed by international teachers and experts, contained in a new app https://oecdcericct.com (beta version). Small groups will discuss what is needed to support school-level approaches to fostering and assessing creativity. What is low-hanging fruit in terms of integrating more teaching of creativity into a school? What long-term vision is needed for an embedded schoolwide approach to creativity? What does it take to get there and what support and resources are needed by different stakeholders?
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16:35 - 17:00 |
Looking ahead - a dialogue with delegates |
Facilitator: Bill Lucas, Professor of Learning, University of Winchester, UK; Chair of GIoCT Advisory Board |
Contacts:
ceri.contact@oecd.org
info@gioct.org
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