Top Class: The OECD Education Policy Podcast | Teachers, PISA, Students
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Top Class: The OECD Education Policy Podcast | Teachers, PISA, Students
Everything you need to know about teaching and learning in one podcast. Top Class, the OECD Education Podcast, interviews leading educators, researchers and policy experts about the big issues facing education systems around the world. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed and arguments employed on...
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Why student career preparation is going wrong
A new OECD report reveals that nearly 40% of 15-year-olds are uncertain about their future careers. Alarmingly, only one in three students has attende...
The state of global education, with OECD’s Andreas Schleicher
More people are getting degrees than ever before, but family background has a big influence on whether people pursue university or another form of ter...
Reinventing education in Ukraine with former education minister Liliia Hrynevych
Despite Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine is rewriting the future of its education system. The New Ukrainian School reform programme is a bold initi...
The battle for education in Ukraine
How to improve Ukraine’s education system during a time of war was the main topic of discussion at an education festival in the western Ukrainian city...
Can apprenticeships solve the job skills gap?
Employers are struggling to find skilled workers. How can we fix the job skills gap? Apprenticeships are touted as one possible solution. They combine...
How to ensure quality early childhood education and care for all
The early years of a child's life are crucial for their development. Falling behind early can mean never catching up. How can countries ensure lasting...
How to help disengaged teenagers learn
How can you help disengaged teenagers rediscover their passion for learning? In this episode of Top Class, Rebecca Winthrop, a Senior Fellow and Direc...
LA wildfires: What educators can do when disaster strikes
Wildfires raging in Los Angeles have destroyed thousands of homes and forced the closure of hundreds of schools. As communities try to rebuild followi...
What skills are needed for the AI and green jobs era?
As technologies transform businesses, what critical skills are needed to succeed in the workforce of the future? With artificial intelligence, the gre...
Why are adult literacy skills dropping? Insights from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills
Over the past decade, literacy and numeracy skills among adults have largely declined or stagnated in most OECD countries. This is the main finding fr...
Tired, stressed & burnt out: strategies to support teacher well-being & healthy working environments
Every year, countless teachers face stress-related illnesses and burnout. While some manage to keep going, often at a reduced capacity, others leave t...
How to close the STEM gender gap
Why is there a persistent gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects? Despite their growing importance for many fu...
How the WorldSkills ‘Olympics’ is breaking the vocational taboo
Many countries are experiencing a growing skills gap – what can be done to address the issue? WorldSkills, the largest international skills competitio...
How to improve science teaching with Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman
On average, science scores have been falling globally for over a decade. What can be done to improve the quality of science teaching? In this episode...
The economics of education with Eric Hanushek
Education budgets are huge. Public spending on schools, universities and other public and private educational institutions is around 5% of GDP across...
Why a skills-first approach can help fill job gaps
With some three-quarters of employers reporting difficulty in filling jobs, do traditional hiring methods need to change? As companies shift their foc...
Rethinking teacher education to foster student creativity
How do you create a classroom where students are actively creating, innovating and problem-solving? A part of the answer involves empowering teachers...
Should smartphones be banned in schools?
Do smartphones help support learning in classrooms or are they a distraction that harms education? A growing number of governments have implemented re...
How to make teachers take bullying seriously
Bullying is an urgent issue in many schools and crucial steps need to be taken to address it. In this episode of Top Class, Professor James O’Higgins...
Is AI a superpower for the classroom?
As artificial intelligence integrates into the world of education, how can we ensure it supports effective learning in the classroom? AI learning bots...
How to navigate ADHD in the classroom
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, is a growing concern for many policymakers around the world. It affects approximatel...
The Taliban, school and me: how an Afghan girl risked everything for an education
Sola Mahfouz was pulled out of school in Afghanistan at the age of 11 after a group of men threatened her safety if she continued studying. After year...
Why are maths and reading scores dropping globally? New PISA results are out
While some countries have maintained or improved performance in maths and reading, many countries across the globe have seen large drops in educationa...
How AI tutors and teaching assistants will transform education
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a non-profit which aims to provide free, world-class education for everyone. His organisation has dev...
How to empower students to help stop climate change
On a daily basis, academic studies, reports and news tell us that the Earth’s ecosystem is in danger. But are schools doing enough to help raise aware...
What should the teaching profession look like in the future?
Rapid developments in technology and society mean education is constantly on the move. These developments are having a profound effect on both student...
How to support education for Ukraine’s war children
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has led to the destruction of much of the country’s education system. Thousands of schools and universities...
Triumphs and struggles: Insights from the US Teacher of the Year
US National Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson on teaching struggles, “flip” lessons, & what it was like to meet US President Joe Biden & US First L...
How exposed should young children be to digital technologies?
In a world of tablets, smartphones and AI – how exposed should young children be to digital technologies? This episode of Top Class explores the lates...
Everything you need to know about micro-credentials
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Micro-credentials are bite-sized qualifications designed to help people demonstrate they have certain skills or experience....
Why skills like empathy are so important in education
‘A focus on social & emotional skills is fundamentally about high quality teaching’
Professor Stephanie Jones from Harvard Graduate Schoo...
Master teachers, AI tutors & 24 hour schools – just some ideas for the future of education
On this OECD Education and Skills podcast Professor Patrick Newell from Shizenkan University joins Duncan Crawford, Senior Content Manager of the OECD...
How to ensure all children get an equal chance to succeed
On the latest Top Class podcast 🎧, OECD's Education Senior Editor Duncan Crawford is joined by John McLaughlin, President & CEO of Atlantic Education...
How To Tackle Cyberbullying - At School, At Home And Online
Cyberbullying is a growing problem worldwide and has serious consequences for students. It can take place on social media, gaming platforms and mobile...
Why Gen Z is Our Planet's Best Hope
From the autumn of 2019 till the pandemic shutdowns, schoolchildren in the millions marched to save Earth from irreparable climate crisis. Calling on...
How I learned to stop worrying and love math
The uproar over the 2021 Revision of the California Mathematics Framework shows us how passionate people are about mathematics – and how we learn it....
Money matters for global education
There’s a gaping hole in the global education budget and it’s 200 billion US dollars deep. Yearly. Part of the problem has to do with taxes: Many deve...
The shortest way to a good report card? Hip hop
Sometimes the road to doing well at school goes through surprising places, like hip hop. In 2015, the Lycée Turgot in Paris pioneered a programme for...
Is digital media literacy the answer to our disinformation woes?
Never before has critical thinking been so…critical. With so much compromised information online, how do we know what’s opinion? What’s fact? And what...
The hard reality of school for LGBTQI+ students
For many LGBTQI+ students, school can be a hostile place. Bullying and the social and emotional strain of not feeling part of the sexual and gender ma...