ACCelerating future EDucation online - in the time of Virus The concept of traditional education has changed radically in recent years and especially in this global situation of the virus. The physically present teacher in a classroom is no longer the only learning option. Currently, students can access quality education as long as they have access to a computer. We can say that we are now entering a new era - the online education revolution. And the teachers, it means they can teach from anywhere, but the most important thing is to be prepared for it. Most teachers are focused on teaching techniques, curriculum materials, and test scores. Teachers focus on what the students learn and not on the real needs of the students. One of the things that have more impact on the "teaching-learning process" is the skill of the teacher to cope with the teaching skills on the new paradigm required, moving into online scenarios and how to transform the school curriculum into an online system. The project works teaching the teacher to facilitate this empowerment process through different frameworks to address the educational online challenges. We need teachers capable of generating a shared mindset of interaction teachers/students together, at another level in education that is one of the changes in the future educational system that moved from one day to another from the classroom into virtual rooms. There was no planning. Both teachers and students need to adapt to it. The project focuses on addressing the actual changes happening at both ends, teachers and students. One of the things that have more impact on this new scenario "teaching-learning process" are the skills needed for the teachers to introduce the changes they need to teach online today and when they return to normal how to integrate both systems The ACCED project works teaching the teacher to facilitate this empowerment process through different online Agile frameworks such as SCRUM, KANBAN, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION and new ICT skills including ZOOM/VIMEO/SLACK The virus scenario generated a new unexpected educational resilience for teachers. The project addresses and implements solutions working with a pool of schools, universities and training centers. The project involves seven partners from the educational sector including schools, Universities, NGO and Foundation working on innovation programs. The ACCED project focuses on implementing a specific training program, a methodology and a certification to validate the training during the project implementation phase and beyond to grant sustainability and impact. Three of the partners influence directly their education system, while private partners see in this training a new area of development. The project addresses the needs of teachers and by extension their students, the need to "learn to learn", to develop critical thinking, communication skills, working on teams, emotions management, transformative leadership, negotiation, citizenship among other soft skills. To develop that skills are the role of the actual teachers because the information is on the Internet and students know this, and the Internet knows more than the teachers. Moreover, the Agile framework enables teachers to work differently, it will speed up the learning process on the student side, and it will show fast delivery results since the creation of knowledge, implementation and testing happens in a very short period delivering incremental value on each sprint (Unit of time to deliver). Once the result is delivered a retrospective is done giving the chance to understand what can be improved. The results of the ACCED project are: The Research Report Agile matrix identifying teachers and potential Agile mindset implementation ACCED Training program: -flexible enough to be adapted to any educational sector -designing new educational lessons with SCRUM-KANBAN framework -using Business Model Teachers and Design Thinking applied to in-service training, so trained teachers in the Agile Mindset can train on the cascade after the certification Toolkit on how to implement the online classes using new frameworks (Agile, ZOOM, Vimeo), a set of transversal activities of good practices BrickME Teachers Certification 15 case studies 34 teachers trained as a ring of mentors and 90 teachers trained in cascade through a series of workshops in partner countries Extensive documentation for the MOOC 4.0 (Videos, templates, images) The SLACK teachers' network Information is not the relevant point in the education of students in the schools, participation in the learning is. In an industrial-age classroom, with a teacher-centred/teacher-directed, one-size-fits-all approach, the mindset is not Agile. The roles are defined: It is the teacher’s job to create memorable lessons, and the student’s responsibility to remember them whether or not they are memorable.
When the student faces a real threat/case has to search for the right information change the paradigm of memorizing into understanding, and learn with others and from others through observation and dialogue. The pandemic scenario generated a new unexpected educational resilience for teachers. The ACCED project focused on implementing a specific training program, a methodology, and a certification to validate the training during the project implementation and beyond to grant sustainability and impact. The project aim was thus to implement the online Agile teacher classroom where students are the ones driving the learning and are empowered by the teacher to pursue things that matter to them. Most importantly, students were inspired and empowered to act, rather than sit back and have the knowledge brought to them. By changing the teacher's mindset from industrial to Agile achieved the "Agile teacher classroom" which includes a series of study cases as a referential framework for other teachers. These Agile frameworks are being used in a very successful way in the business sector but have not been yet either adapted or seamlessly integrated into the educational system.
One of the main needs faced by teachers in education is related to the need to attract and retain the attention and commitment of students, and ensure they achieve the required learning outcomes. One of the things that have more impact on the "teaching-learning process" is the skill of the teacher to cope with the teaching skills of the new paradigm, which requires moving into online scenarios. But without previous training and knowledge about how to transform the school curriculum into an online system, it is hard to happen a change. The project taught teachers to facilitate this empowerment process through Agile frameworks to address educational online challenges and how to integrate both systems. Teachers and students need to adapt to it and the project was focused and addressing the changes that happened. The project facilitated the empowerment process of teachers through different online Agile frameworks such as SCRUM, KANBAN, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, and Non-Violent Communication. Also, the project taught teachers how to create Agile scenarios where the students find the motivation to acquire information and transform it into knowledge and develop new soft and hard skills to improve professional competences.