World Education Week global showcase
New Delhi, September 01, 2020: Choithram School, a kindergarten-to-secondary school in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, is to play a vital role in what is billed as the ‘world’s biggest education conference’.
The school, which champions nurturing its students entrepreneurial skills, is to be part of a showcase of 100 schools which will gather online to share expertise and best practices in the inaugural World Education Week, from 5-9th October, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education (SDG 4)
The hundred schools have been hand-picked for their expertise across a range of educational themes, such as enhancing employability and life-skills; deepening family and community engagement; the use of technology; a focus on wellbeing; and promoting the science of learning and teaching. Each will share their wisdom to an online audience expected to reach 100,000 worldwide. The ambition driving World Education Week is to accelerate progress to achieve UN SDG 4, a commitment designed to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.
Centred on the theme of ‘Learning Today’, each school will host a virtual panel discussion to demonstrate how to bring change, based on their own experiences. Choithram School will be showcasing in an online panel their successful programme to equip students with 21st century skills.
Rajesh Awasthi, Principal, commented:
“The students and educators of Choithram School are enraptured to share vignettes about entrepreneurship education and hope schools across the globe will be able to replicate our entrepreneurship model that focuses on equipping students with 21st century skills, work readiness, environmental awareness and active citizenship. It is remarkable how World Education Week empowers schools to work collectively promoting global mindedness and
sustainability. We are gratified to share our work through the spectacular Global Showcase of 100 schools in October!”
The ground-breaking event is led by Vikas Pota, a globally-respected leader and driving force in the education, international development, philanthropy and technology sectors. In launching the event, Mr Pota said:
“I congratulate Choithram School for being selected to take part in our Global Showcase for World Education Week. By sharing the ways in which this school has developed its particular expertise, we hope others will feel inspired to undertake the same journey to excellence.”
“I am incredibly inspired by the schools that applied to take part in this year’s World Education Week. Their commitment to improving the life chances of their learners by nurturing expertise and wanting to share their experience with others, especially in these challenging times, says a lot about the education community. They are our heroes and World Education Week provides us all an opportunity not just to learn from them, but to celebrate their successes, too.”
The conference has won the backing of Andreas Schleicher, the Director for Education at the OECD, who said:
“What’s exciting about World Education Week is the idea of schools around the world sharing their expertise with their peers. After a turbulent period in global education, this is a great way of building back better.”
The project was also welcomed by David Edwards, the General Secretary of Education International, the global federation of teacher unions:
“Teachers have amazed the world by taking the lead in this time of crisis. World Education Week is a global showcase of schools adapting to unprecedented challenges and striving for excellence illustrates that continuing determination against the odds to serve our students. Next comes the hard part – making sure that governments and educators and communities take safe and innovative practices across the world as examples, to build back better a public sector guaranteeing a quality education for every student.”
Jaime Saavedra, the Global Director, Education for The World Bank Group, welcomed the projects:
“The sheer scale of educators around the globe combining to share expertise, excellence and wisdom in accelerating learning is hugely impressive. If all educators learn from the best educators of their countries and of the world we would make immense progress in ensuring inclusive, equitable and quality education for all. I welcome all to participate in World Education Week which takes place from 5th – 9th October.”
World Education Week is an effort by thirty civil society organisations coming together after the record breaking T4 conference on 30th May that was attended by over 100,000 teachers.
Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)
