Building a shared and coherent visionScenarios for education

Title Scenarios for Education

Objectives Using future scenarios to prepare for changing futuresCreating personal scenarios for your school’s possible future

Guidance Scenarios are used regularly in business to help organisations plan for alternate futures through reformed processes. It is a way of building a vision without the constraints of the present by really trying to be creative and innovative in thinking about what is possible. Really try and encourage ’blue skies’ thinking for this activity.

Group Size Between 10 and 20, working mostly in pairs of groups of 3

Resources This PowerPointWord guideOne Note supporting documentFuture Scenarios (OECD link, Institute for the Future Map of Future Forces link, Vision 2020 link)

Timing Explore the scenario examples (1. 15 hours)Describe your school’s future successes ( 1.30 hours)Extract possible project ideas to attain the vision ( 2 hours)

Outputs 1. Analysed scenario examples2. Visions for the future of your school

Workshop Overview

Why use scenarios?

• A tool for strategic planning

• A scenario is a story or set of stories that describe a possible future

• Scenarios are intended to form a basis for strategic conversation - they are not intended to be future aims necessarily

Why use scenarios?

STEEP Factors

Consider the following factors to guide your brainstorming:

S = Social Factors

T = Technological Factors

E = Economical Factors

E = Environmental Factors

P = Political Factors

• Read through your allocated support document– Vision 2020– Futurelab 2020– Horizon Report– Institute for the Future

• Share your feedback with the group on the general thoughts/ ideas of your support document

• Work in groups of 3 or 4 to build a scenario for each of the following perspectives

• The key is to think without restraint, leave your current constraints behind

Workshop tasks

2020WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

• What do I want to learn?

• How do I want to learn?

• Who do I want to learn from/ with?

• What else do I want from my school?

2020 student

• What do I teach?

• Where do I teach?

• Who do I teach?

• How do I assess?

• What do I assess?

• What else do I do for the school?

2020 teacher

• What is our role?

• Who are our customers?

• Who are we responsible for?

• Who are we accountable to?

• How do we sustain ourself?

2020 school

• Imagine it is the year 2020

• You have been asked to speak at an international conference on key achievements of your school in each of the areas of your scenario work so far

• What will you talk about?

• Prepare statements in groups and then feedback

• Add you scenarios and statements to the One Notre workbook

Next steps