Teachers of tomorrow Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teachers of tomorrow

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Social background
The transformation of the educational world and the world in general requires that teachers become empowered to recognize their role as active actors in sustainable teaching and learning. They should reflect on their own value system.
The future social and educational framework conditions will change based on a new reflection of the value system and the globalization of education.
The project will focus on the practical implementation and evaluation of practical pedagogical work with teachers and learners.
Aims:
The project relies on an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. It is a project of science, society and practice that is closely linked to the process of the European Union.
It is about a high-quality qualification of teachers and the socio-cultural and emotional participation and part of marginalized groups in society in the educational process , a dialogue-based, systematic knowledge transfer.
Target groups:
Adult education teachers in regular schools, educational counseling centers, coaching area and teachers wiht a migrant background
The following products are planned:
1.The development of an innovative competence profile for teachers, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (inter-institutional, building on the knowledge and experience of educational institutions dealing with education and knowledge transfer in the future based on the social importance of education and educational processes.)
2. The development of teaching and learning materials / tools
Based on the competence profile, appropriate teaching and learning materials are developed, tested and analysed. ( artistic methods, systemic methods: solution-oriented interviewing, appreciative communication, and digital / virtual methods)
3. Product is the development of a training curriculum, the content of which relates to the new competence profile.
Partners:
The University of Tralee (Ireland), the foundation Fazio-Allmeyer of Palermo, the Theater Association Teatro due mondi, the Adult Education Center Vienna / Simmering . The responsible persons have already profound EU project experience. The vhs Pforzheim-Enzkreis will be the coordinating institution.
Activities
There are 4learning activities on 5 working days. The participants are teachers and program managers from the partner institutions. They teach in different fields and disciplines. The goal is to put the innovative training Curriculum into practice, to test it and to analyze it. A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the workshop participants will evaluate and document the results of the workshops.
Distribution
Corresponding training systems are established in the various educational institutions of the partner institutions, nationally in the associations, in teacher training, in the development of other institutions.
Lecturer meetings, collegial practical consultations and further institutionalized meetings serve as an exchange of experiences about the developed competence profile and the developed curriculum.
Effect
Effect on an individual level:
The teachers get to know a new competence profile, they will reflect about their own educational acting with a different pedagogical attitude.
Effect on the institutional level:
The educational institutions will change their training offer and adapt it to the Training Curriculum.
Local / Regional Effect:
Intensive exchange of experience with other educational institutions (inter-institutional), interdisciplinary training courses for teachers in the region. Further development of training concepts. More intensive cross-institutional cooperation.
Effect at the system level:
At the systemic level, there may be changes in the educational structure teacher training. Global teaching and learning in the sense of networked thinking, dialogue based and solution focused learning and teaching , critical thinking and acting.
Sustainable Benefit:
The new competence profile and the Training Curriculum have the power to motivate teachers, Multipliers, councellers and political persons to reflect about their own attitudes, ideas, actions and about their value System in the educational context with the aim to change it against the background of a changing world society “putting on the pedagogical table” new challenges like the Migration mouvement, the new nationalismes and the virtualization of education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 216318 Eur

Project Coordinator

Volkshochschule Pforzheim-Enzkreis & Country: DE

Project Partners

• TEATRO DUE MONDI ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• DIE WIENER VOLKSHOCHSCHULEN GMBH
• FONDAZIONE NAZIONALE VITO FAZIO-ALLMAYER
• Munster Technological University