KinderTrendrede 2020
Last year the KinderTrendrede was adapted as an official document for the city council to act on. Depla, the mayor […]
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Futures Day – March 6th
6 March 2020 – This year we will convene a council for the future in which everyone is invited. The […]
Read moreTTF meet-up Helsinki
10 June 2020 – Helsinki, Finland JOIN US! As we are a network of all enthusiastic people working on the […]
Read moreLearning Futures – Futures of Learning Conference
10–12 June 2020 – Helsinki, Finland As we move further into the 21st century, we need to renew our understanding […]
Read moreSummit Micro school in Canada uses the Futures Playbook
Summit Micro is a small K-8 school in Toronto. As far as we know it at TTF, it is the first […]
Read moreFutures Lab for refugees
Running a Futures Literacy-Theatre Lab for unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in Greece “In my country the future is embedded in […]
Read moreTTF Hub > South Africa in the spotlight!
Teach the Future has hubs world wide. In this post we put our South African hub in the spotlight. The […]
Read moreMexico organises videoconference training
Teaching the future can be done face-to-face, but also online. In Mexico there is an International Prospective Training Videoconference called “Prospective […]
Read moreCreating connections in Poland
Teach the Future is always looking for opportunities to connect and exchange views with teachers and advocators. In May we […]
Read moreExploring survival skills for education
The meet-up for teachers at Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda has an energetic and enthusiastic atmosphere, despite the […]
Read moreTTF meet-up Mexico City
10 September 2019 – We would like to meet you in real life! See you September 10th 2019 During this meeting you […]
Read moreTeach the Future Mexico delivers certificates
On February 22nd 2019, the Certificates Delivery of the Introductory Training Course for Teaching the Future was held publicly at […]
Read moreFutures Day 2019 – a sample of TTF’s activities
Futures Day was celebrated all around the world on March 1. Futures Day is a worldwide theme day aimed at sparking […]
Read moreTTF Meet-up Warsaw
30 may 2019 – We would like to meet you in real life! See you May 30th in Warsaw! During […]
Read moreKinderTrendrede 2019
16 April 2019 – Are you ready for the next KinderTrendrede! Want to know how our kids see the future? […]
Read moreProject based consultancy
We consult education professionals on a strategic level about the future of education. We assist in creating roadmaps on the […]
Read moreKeynotes and presentations
We provide inspiring and interactive keynotes for education professionals on why youngsters need to become entrepreneurs of their own future […]
Read moreStudent Trend Tours
We offer trend tours for students of vocational education. Depending on the direction we go from technology to construction and […]
Read moreTeacher Trainings
We offer training sessions for teachers who want to integrate futures education in their curriculum and who need to practice […]
Read moreTeaching Materials Library
We have an online library with all sorts of teaching materials in various languages. Check it out, almost all materials […]
Read moreVelon / VELOV congres
18 March 2019 – Teachers conference for teachers from The Netherlands and Belgium with the title Educating for the Future. Teach […]
Read moreGlobal seminar of prospective training
14 June 2019 – Cycle of International Videoconferences of Prospective Training. Prospective as future generations training. More info about the […]
Read moreJoseph Jaworski Foresight Award!
TTF wins the Joseph Jaworski Foresight Award! The Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award aims to identify the innovators […]
Read moreTeaching futures thinking in Germany!
At Teach the Future we always like to collaborate with likeminded collectives around the world in our quest to […]
Read moreFutures Consciousness Test
The Finland Futures Research Centre developed a Futures Consciousness Test to measure the future consciousness of people. Teach the Future […]
Read moreNext Generation Survival Kit Workshop
What if the robots take over classes? What if everyone has a personal learning path? What if school buildings no […]
Read moreSymposium VLVO & ODVB
28 November 2018 – For VLVO (Vereniging Leidinggevende Vlaams Onderwijs) & ODVB (Organisatie Directeurs Vlaams Basisonderwijs) we created a program […]
Read moreKinderTrendrede 2018
13 March 2018 – Together with Extend Limits and Pakhuis Breda we organized the KinderTrendrede. Schools from the region Breda participated […]
Read moreWe are active in 22 countries across the globe!
Since 2014 Teach the Future has grown in a worldwide community, with local hubs and advocators in the Netherlands, Finland, […]
Read moreWe have collaborated with 25 schools
Via collaborations with schools and academies we have created teaching modules and workshops together. For example, we have a collaboration […]
Read moreWe have inspired 500 teachers
Via keynotes, workshops and our library with teaching materials, we have inspired teachers all over the globe why it is […]
Read moreWe have empowered 25.000 students
Via workshops by educators from the Teach the Future community we have been able to reach out to 25.000 students […]
Read moreGain 21 century skills
Futures thinking includes many of the 21stskills, such as critical thinking, systems thinking, creativity, solution-based collaboration, empathy and so on. […]
Read moreUnderstand the impact of their present choices for the future
Although the future is uncertain, teaching the future enables students to think on a more long-term scale and explore their […]
Read moreDeal with the exponential speed of change
The world is in flux and transforming at high speed, driven by all kinds of forces such as technology, climate […]
Read moreBecome the entrepreneur of their own future
They will understand the contribution they can make in creating the future. This will make them aware that they change […]
Read moreIndia in the Spotlights
India in de Spotlights Hi! I’m Shiv Issar and I’m a graduate student of Sociology in India. I’ve been initiating […]
Read moreFutures Day, March 1st!
1 March 2019 – Join the Global Conversation about the Future on Futures Day, March 1st! The future is constantly present […]
Read moreLet kids guide you into the future
“Adults should listen to us, because we will be living in the future longer than them.” This is one of […]
Read moreTeach the future teachers
Teach the Future’s Erica Bol in action during a Future Week at Windesheim university. TTF is always on the look-out […]
Read moreLesson of the Month: An Educator’s Guide for Realistic and Creative Strategies for Thinking about the Future
Even if you just need to teach your associates a more positive way to think about the future and how […]
Read moreNew Futures Program for Elementary Students in Breda, Netherlands
Erica Bol leads elementary students in an exercise developed by Teach The Future. In the Dutch city of Gemeente Breda, […]
Read moreThe Summer of Futures
To help teenagers think more effectively about the future when making decisions, Teach The Future has launched the Summer of […]
Read moreWho Taught the Future in 2016?
Last month, we sent out a survey to everyone who downloaded materials from Teach the Future’s library last year. We […]
Read moreTeach the Future with Imagine FutureEd Student Competition
When I was in the classroom, the best days were when a unit both sparked my students’ interest and helped […]
Read moreOECD Director: “The past was interactive, the future is participative”
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently convened a working group in Beijing, and Teach the Future was […]
Read moreGlobal Education Conference Recap: Gwen Ifill and the Power of Possibility
“Your necessary voice can invest in the power of possibility. You can relish the unexpected. You can claim the path […]
Read moreOECD Education 2030 Workgroup Recap: Foresight as a 21st Century Skill
I’ve spent the last two years focused mostly on Teach the Future’s “bottom-up” activities, directly addressing educators who want to […]
Read moreTeach the Future at the Disruptive Innovation Festival
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) is taking over the web again November 7-25. DIF is an online, open access event […]
Read moreSee Teach the Future in Action in New KnowledgeWorks Video
<br/> In May, I collaborated with KnowledgeWorks and Youth Leading Change to create a foresight workshop for high school students […]
Read moreIMAGINE: the scenario game that helps kids think about the future
“It’s 2031, and we are renewing…” Last week, Teach the Future to introduced a new game called IMAGINE designed to […]
Read moreTeaching the Future: Emeryville
What is the future of digital privacy? What are the implications of space resource extraction? How might we deal with […]
Read moreFalling Backwards: Reflections on a Fundraising Campaign
Teach the Future completed its first fundraising campaign in May. We raised about $15,000. But I was surprised to experience the […]
Read moreScenarios As Learning
One of the first questions people ask me is how accurate I was in forecasting the future, but it’s not […]
Read moreHistory teachers Teaching the Future. Of course!
David Staley, Teach the Future Board member from Ohio State, organized a session about teaching the future at the annual […]
Read moreWhat’s it all worth?
“We teach the future as we do the past.” That’s the vision of Teach the Future, a hope and a […]
Read moreAnd so it begins…
Until recently, I was director of the graduate program in Foresight at the University of Houston, a program I had […]
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