Creation of Continuous Professional Development Programme for Educators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creation of Continuous Professional Development Programme for Educators

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Malta’s National Curriculum Framework (2012) was designed to reflect the aims and goals of the EU2020 strategy. For this to be successful, the need is felt for the creation of a revised version of the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme for educators in Malta, that is consistent with the framework’s underlying EU 2020’s principles of equity, diversity, inclusivity and social justice in education. The Mediterranean basin experiences comparatively higher rates of migration thus necessitating the introduction and consolidation of these necessary skills set to deal with the exponential growth of multiculturalism within the continent.

In collaboration with Forth (Greece) and the Universita’ Degli Studi di Verona (Italy), this three-year project will therefore create a CPD Programme for educators in today’s day and age built on shared European experiences and collaboration, and to share the lessons and knowledge gained with the European partners as well as other educational systems wishing to conduct similar experiments. These partners will provide workshops to over 500 educators in Malta over a period of two years. Furthermore three teaching and training events took place. The scope of these activities was to give up to 45 educators from Greece and Malta the opportunity to experience other educational systems and share best practices in education.

Since the ultimate aim of the project is to bring about change through CPD initiatives, it indeed is a form of action research. Once this has been carried out, data will be collected to assess what impact this CPD initiative has had on the educators themselves as well as on the performance of a cohort of young students. This entails comparing results of students before and after the CPD intervention, as well as feedback from the educators who participated in the workshops.

Ultimately, students will benefit from high-quality education and training that will allow them to adapt to globalised complex environments in which creativity, innovation, initiative, entrepreneurship and commitment to continuous learning are as important as knowledge. The impact of this CPD initiative will also positively affect student retention and reduce early school leaving while promoting lifelong learning amongst students and educators.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 179987 Eur

Project Coordinator

DQSE – Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education & Country: MT

Project Partners

• FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA