Improvement of teacher`s planning skills in competency based education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improvement of teacher`s planning skills in competency based education

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The main objective of the Project ‘’Improvement of teacher`s planning skills in competency based education’’ is to strenghten, improve, develop teachers planning skills in competency based education in 21st century. Now in reform period of education in Latvia when accents go from traditional knowledge based education to competency based education, it is essentially important to support and strenghten teachers skills, professionality, to give safety by helping to teachers. It is a teacher who is moving forward the education process in everyday life. Reform success will be depending on how competent, sure, confident and creative will be teacher in his work. The target group of the project – teachers who work in the school on a daily basis – in the classroom with students. The project was implemented by Valmiera Pargauja State Gymnasium (Latvia) with its partner schools – Bjørnegård School in Norway and ICS Pian del Bruscolo in Italy. Number of participants actively involved in the project – 15.

The main tasks of the Project were summed up in two blocks.
Block A: partners choose one of the three themes and will be responsible for and work more with it (planning of the lesson / Italy, short-and long-term planning/ Latvia, feedback and self-evaluation/ Norway.
Block B (mandatory for each partner): participants collected and tested methodological material for a tool book for teachers ’- Handbook for teachers in developing of planning skills which was handed out by the end of the Project.
Project activities were a combination from training activities in each partner country with observation of colleagues work, workshops of respective themes, and homeworks where partners have to work with above mentioned tasks. There were three Training meetings – one in each country.
By the end of the Project the Handbook ‘’Improvement of teacher`s planning skills in competency based education’’ was ready created in electronic form in Latvian and English and available for all the interested parts, published in websites of partner countries.

Each partner country arranged its dissemination activities for Project results. In Latvia/Valmiera Handbook and other results of the Project were presented in The Final Conference with target audience – teachers, leaders of methodological groups, education decision makers from our region. Due to Covid-19 foreign partners could not participate in the Final Conference.

Project results and impact.
Project materials will help practically in teachers daily work – tangiable material – Handbook for teachers “Improvement of teacher`s planning skills in competency based education’’. Untangiable results (as observations, reflectations, experience, discussions, work in focus groups) will improve teachers planning skills, will give possibility to have a more safe and sure look on changes in education system, will help to structure own work and create more effective lesson. Pedagogues are now more confident to share their experience , and with this will help to improve the work for other collegues; they will be more confident to talk to parents and to explain changes in education system.
We hope that Project results will provide multistep effect on included persons- from pedagogues, to parents, society in general, but most important – to students in daily work in lessons. The lesson will become more effective, meaningful, professional, up-to-date…

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 61300 Eur

Project Coordinator

Valmieras Pargaujas valsts gimnazija & Country: LV

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE PIAN DEL BRUSCOLO TAVULLIA
• Bjørnegård skole