Pedagogy and Practice Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pedagogy and Practice

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation

Project Summary

This two-year project involved 5 partners from 5 countries. It addressed the issue of putting pedagogical theory into practice to improve the quality of initial teacher training and produce more confident teachers who are less likely to leave the profession early.

The resources that were developed and the methodology that was adopted were based on a PedPack for schools, which was developed by the UK National Strategies over a decade ago, but not widely taken up at the time due to policy changes. However, the topics, although in need of updating, were still relevant. They were based on whole school strategies, rather than subject specific approaches, to implement pedagogical theory in practice. This project developed updated digital resources to improve the delivery of ITE and support teachers in their early years to both make the teaching profession more attractive and reduce the drop-out rate due to pressure.

Partners started by analysing five key topic areas:
• Structuring Learning
• Teaching Models
• Assessment for Learning
• Developing Effective Learning
• Classroom Management

However, they concluded that there was considerable overlap in the topics of Structuring Learning and Developing Effective Learning, so merged these into a new topic Developing Effective Learners.

The project addressed a number of the areas highlighted in the ET2020 paper, ‘A guide on policies to improve Initial Teacher Education’, (2015) which pointed out the ‘urgent need to improve Initial Teacher Education’

The objectives of the project were to:
• update five areas of the pedagogical guidance and digitise them
• put the updated guidance into practice in teacher training provision in 5 countries
• trial and test the methodology and the resources
• undertake an impact study on the whole school methodology and the resources
• share the outcomes and materials widely

The project addressed the Horizontal Priority of educators…
• by strengthening the induction of candidates for the teaching profession to support high-quality teaching

It addressed the Erasmus+ School Priorities of…
• strengthening the recruitment of teachers to make the career more attractive and supporting teachers in adopting more innovative practices

The specific outputs of the project were:

• A digitised set of pedagogical resources in 4 areas for use in the training and support of trainee teachers
• A longitudinal impact study on the PedPack methodology and the updated resources
• A website hosting the downloadable resources and case studies – http://pedpack.eu/
• A set of dissemination materials and seminars in 5 countries
• A research report with recommendations on policy

The overall result is a new training model and resources and evidence that this impacts on the quality of teaching, despite different educational and cultural contexts. The resources are freely downloadable from the project website http://pedpack.eu/.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195697 Eur

Project Coordinator

edEUcation ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL
• PAEDAGOGISCHE HOCHSCHULE KARLSRUHE
• UNIVERZA NA PRIMORSKEM UNIVERSITA DEL LITORALE
• CPIFP Bajo Aragón