Conference 2022
The sixth TA Teachers Conference Towards Thinking Curriculum will take place in a virtual format in August 2022.
Since 2012, when the first TA Teachers conference was organised, thinking has taken a much more prominent role in the curriculum of many countries. We invite you to investigate the topic from various angles:
- role of and approaches to thinking in the national curriculum
- ways of conceptualising thinking in the curriculum
- thinking in the disciplinary curricula
- thinking beyond the formal curricuum
- etc.
We encourage teacher participants to submit their unit plans and syllabi used for the development of thinking skills for their discussion at the conference.
This year we would like to propose a different format for running the event to make it more productive for all the participants. We ask all the speakers to provide their input before the conference using a variety of online presentation options. The conference will then include two phases:
- Phase 1. Aug 15 - 25. Familiarisation with conference materials, initial questions and discussions. Asynchronous, online.
- Phase 2. Aug 26 - 31. In-depth discussion of the conference materials, reflection and practical online workshops. Synchronous, online (specific time will be specified later, we invisage two 3 h long sessions for each language track)
The conference programme will be offered in two languages: English and Russian. We expect some overlap between the tracks, but the programme is generally different. The participants will be able to follow one or both tracks.