Working Academics Value Excellence for International Teachers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Working Academics Value Excellence for International Teachers

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

WAVE-IT: Working Academics Value Excellence for International Teachers, starts of a bottom-up process of the implementation of 21st Century Competencies and Skills, focused on entrepreneurial, connective and the reflective practitioner in teacher education and schools.

Looking for the capabilities and capacities of the children of today and the needs for tomorrow. Defining the competence and skills of a European Teacher and defining criteria for primary and secondary schools and their teachers on entrepreneurship and reflective teaching. A European teacher has to be prepared for the future and should have a more global vision on education.

WAVE-IT is a strategic project within the European Teacher network (www.european-teachers.eu).

Context/background
WAVE-IT builds on a strong relationship with partner institutes and a good relationship with high-motivated teachers of primary and secondary schools, which became members of the European Teacher network. Collaboration during projects and reflection on activities are the keys in the learning processes within the European Teacher network. Saxion, university of applied education in the Netherlands, coordinates the network.

WAVE-IT objectives:
1: Development of didactical strategies for entrepreneurial and connective teaching and education.
2: Development of critical thinking strategies to support reflective practice through collaboration and communication between teachers, learners, and academics.
3: Implementation of entrepreneurial and reflective competencies and skills in teacher education.
4: Implementation of the strategies to the education of children with higher increased learning support (refugees, socially excluded, with special learning needs).

Number and profile of participants
The partners of WAVE-IT are 4 institutes of teacher education and one participating primary/low secondary school. All institutes have chosen a forerunner school in their region, out of members of the European Teacher network. Participants are researchers, teachers of educational institutes, teachers of primary and secondary schools, students and technicians.

Activities
The participants work together on Intellectual outputs:
• IO1: interactive resource: a set of practical recommendations and learning interventions to promote teacher entrepreneurship in primary and secondary schools and in teacher education.
• IO2 interactive resource: adaptive teacher training material to support reflective practice through collaboration and communication between teachers, learners, ​and academics.

The participants organize:
• 1 in-service course for teachers and
• 1 intensive programme higher education learners.

Methodology
WAVE-IT uses the structure of the facilities of the European Teacher network:
• Organization: coordination, advisory board, evaluation, secretarial financial and technical support,
• Communication: web site and newsletter, Facebook, Linked in, e-books and the Moodle system for online courses and
• Labs for new activities on the European Teacher learning materials and courses.

WAVE-IT strengthens the role of the national groups of the European Teacher network as disseminators.

WAVE-IT develops an:
• In-service course for teachers: the reflective practitioner (implementation of 21st Century education in primary and secondary schools,
• Intensive course for students: Teachers4Future.

Results
WAVE-IT strengthens the profile of teaching professions by the development of 21st Century Skills, focused on entrepreneurship and reflective teaching.

WAVE-IT develops practical recommendations for promoting teacher entrepreneurship through online collaboration and communication between teachers, students, researchers, ​and technicians.

WAVE-IT enhances teachers’ reflective practice by means of developing adaptive teacher training material that capitalizes on the strengths of video-mediated reflection and feedback.
WAVE-IT will operationalize strategies for entrepreneurial and reflective teaching in order for teachers to be able to monitor and reflect on the extent to which they engage in these effectual practices. The digital platform (for example smartphones or tablets) will be developed that allow teachers to report on the strategies for entrepreneurial and reflective teaching that occur in the context of their everyday teaching.

Impact
Teacher education institutes profit from working together with the schools and from working with each other in a transnational environment. Students and teachers of primary and secondary schools are participants in labs to develop together with teacher educators and researchers/specialists, learning strategies for 21st Century Skills and 2020 skills for teacher education and primary and secondary schools. The process of collaborative working is embedded in a professional continuum of teacher profession.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149946 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
• STICHTING SAXION
• University College of Teacher Education Styria
• Zakladni skola Olomouc, Heyrovskeho 33, p.o.
• Základní škola Milovice u Hořic