Jason McGrath

Policy Analyst

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Dr Jason McGrath is a Policy Analyst with the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills. For the last three years he has worked on the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation’s project investigating New professionalism and the future of teaching. This project applies futures approaches to co-create preferred scenarios for teaching.

Jason has been a teacher for over thirty years. Prior to moving to the OECD, Jason was principal of a large Kindergarten–Year 12 school in Australia. He has also worked in state and regional positions to support school and system development.

Jason completed his PhD on the topic of “What if compulsory schooling was a 21st century invention?”.

Expertise: School transformation, strategic foresight

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Onderwijsconferentie Rotterdam 2024

Co-constructing preferred scenarios for the future of teaching

Jason McGrath

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How can we anticipate the future of the teaching profession? How can we create preferred futures that value current professionals, inspire future teachers and respond to current challenges?
The session will provide opportunities to engage with two research-based tools that have been created to support co-constructing preferred future scenarios for teaching. Firstly, “ambitions loops” help engage with next-practice ideas and possibilities. Secondly, a set of teacher personas provide opportunity to test ideas and to learn ways to deepen implementation.
How can we reframe thinking about the profession of teaching in ways that can create innovative approaches?