On the afternoon of July 3, Anna Pons, the head of the Global Teaching Insights Project and the Schools+ Network Project of the Education and Skills Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, guested at the 171st Huaxia Curriculum Forum and gave a speech entitled "Observing Teaching: The Global Teaching InSights and Schools+ Frameworks".

The lecture reviewed the "Global Teaching InSights", an international video analysis project launched by the OECD in recent years, especially showing the characteristics and uniqueness of Shanghai mathematics classrooms, and discussed how to improve global classroom teaching with the help of evidence-based teaching research. The forum was hosted by Associate Professor Shi Yuchen, and Professor An Guiqing, Associate Professor Yang Xiaozhe, and Associate Professor Wang Zhe participated in the discussion.

As the head of the OECD "Global Teaching Insights" (GTI) project, Dr. Anna Pons first introduced the basic situation and research progress of the project. The GTI project is committed to observing and analyzing classrooms and evaluating teaching quality through video research methods. Dr. Pons pointed out that the main areas involved in teaching quality assessment include classroom management, social-emotional support and instruction, and there are differences in the performance of various countries and regions in these practice domains.

Then, Dr. Pons introduced the main measurement dimensions in the field of classroom management (CM), including classroom arrangement, classroom control, and teaching activity structure. With the help of the score charts of eight regions around the world, the teachers and students attending the meeting can intuitively feel the classroom management level and characteristics of each country. Among them, Shanghai's average score is far higher than other regions, and the classroom is mainly collective and individual activities, and group cooperation is rarely used.

Dr. Pons then turned the topic to the field of social-emotional support (SE), whose measurement dimensions include respect, encouragement and warmth, and student persistence. Dr. Pons emphasized that a good classroom environment means that students feel safe, confident, and dare to speak and ask questions. At the same time, concepts such as "respect" have different meanings in different cultural contexts, so standardized measurements require very specific behavioral evidence.

In addition, Dr. Pons pointed out that the improvement of teaching (IN) quality faces challenges. The measurement dimensions of this field include classroom discourse, content quality, student cognitive investment, and evaluation and response to students' understanding ability. Compared with other regions, Shanghai mathematics classrooms show clear goals and provide more practice opportunities, but rarely help students establish connections between knowledge, there are not many in-depth questions in the classroom, and there is a lack of metacognition and self-assessment.

Finally, Dr. Pons introduced the new project "Schools+ Network" that the OECD is promoting to the teachers and students attending the meeting. The project aims to meet the many challenges of education in the 21st century by bringing together educational networks, connecting governments, experts, leaders and teachers. She shared the basic concepts and research progress of "Schools+ Network", including the five core areas of classroom evaluation, the observation sub-dimensions of each field, and the "Schools Hub" online platform.

Dr. Anna Pons' report systematically sorted out the process of OECD's classroom teaching research in recent years, which helped teachers and students broaden their international horizons and understand the cutting-edge trends in the field of classroom video research.

Dr. Anna Pons' sharing on GTI and the "Schools+ Network" project aroused great interest among teachers and students. The participating teachers and students held a heated discussion on topics such as "the implementation process of the GTI project in Shanghai", "the types of data collected in the research", "the measurement methods of social emotional support in the classroom", and "the application prospects and limitations of AI in classroom research and teaching".

Afterwards, Associate Professor Shi Yuchen introduced to Dr. Pons the high-quality classroom intelligent analysis report developed by the International Classroom Analysis Laboratory of the Curriculum Institute. Dr. Pons highly praised the advanced and cutting-edge nature of the report in analyzing classroom big data with the help of artificial intelligence, and further asked about the analysis ideas of many indicators in the report.

Dr. Pons pointed out that being able to conduct intelligent analysis based on a large amount of classroom video data may be a unique advantage of Chinese researchers. At present, the existing international artificial intelligence classroom analysis is still at a relatively superficial level, and it is difficult to make a breakthrough. The laboratory's analysis has made significant progress in many aspects that require judgment or inference. These studies are expected to have influence and leadership worldwide.

The ICI looks forward to more opportunities to communicate and cooperate with the OECD in the future.