The year 2022 has been a year to look to the future, as the global education conversation moves again toward themes of education transformation and the futures of education. The 100 innovations selected for this year’s global collection are impacting the lives of over 95 million students worldwide. The collection highlights the important role of teachers in education innovation; the continued need for students to develop 21st century skills, including social and emotional learning; an increasing focus on student wellbeing and mental health; and equity in education.
VVOB is very proud to have been selected as one of the top 100 innovations with process-oriented child monitoring, a formative assessment system used in professional development programs for early childhood education teachers in Vietnam. Using two 5-point scales, teachers systematically observe and assess all learners' wellbeing and involvement using a simple paper-based or app-based tool. Based on this assessment, teachers identify children at risk of not learning, reflect on their own teaching practice, and on what withholds children from learning and meaningful participation. Teachers reflect individually and as a team and are supported by their school leaders and education officials.
Based on the Global Collection 2023, HundrED has identified several key trends in education innovation:
- Teachers for Transformation: Teachers are at the heart of education innovation. In this year’s collection, the most used keyword was professional development, tagged by a third of innovators in their submission. We see that innovators are centering teachers in educational change.
- 21st Century Skills: Student’s skill development is a primary motivation for education innovation. Nearly a quarter of innovations in the collection focus on helping students develop 21st Century Skills - skills to build a healthy and productive life and to adapt to a changing world.
- Student Wellbeing & Mental Health: Student wellbeing is a determining factor of educational outcomes. We saw an increasing trend in innovations focusing on students’ wellbeing, mental health, empathy, and bullying prevention.
- Student Agency: Students need to develop their own voice, with the child being put at the centre of the experience and receiving personalised learning. Innovations are working on creating learning environments where students can make choices about their education, including the assessment of their own learning.
- Equity: Equity is not only a question of what is learned, but of who is learning. Innovations focusing on equity centre their practice on gender equality, diversity, special needs education, inclusion, access to education and human rights.
