Supporting Teachers and Students to Improve Their Schools and Learning

• In Event: Transforming Science Education by Fostering Students’ Creativity and Critical Thinking

Abstract

One of the challenges of Thailand, a middle income country, is to get out of the “middle income” trap through education. Kraiyos Patrawat will present how Thailand first piloted a large scale intervention based on developing creativity and critical thinking based on professional development, a series of scaffolding tools and regular support to teachers before expanding it in a large scale school improvement programme building on the same key elements, but expanded to other skills and subjects. It will show how the intervention helps close the achievement gap in Thailand, for example between rural and urban areas and, more generally, socio-economic groups.

Author

• Kraiyos Patrawat, Education Equity Fund