TILL: A European Qualification of Teacher Competences for Lifelong Learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

TILL: A European Qualification of Teacher Competences for Lifelong Learning

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Good teachers have the greatest influence on the outcomes for children. Therefore the overall outcome of TILL will be to produce the very best possible professional teachers to lead learning for the future. This will be achieved through the development of a transnational, quality assured, accreditation system of consistently recognising the qualities that underpin lifelong learning for the teaching profession.

TILL contributes to the innovation of teacher education in Europe by developing a European level qualification for teachers, focused on developing learning competences in pupils through culturally relevant, motivating, sense-making and joyful learning.

The TILL Qualification uses online formative and summative assessment and a portfolio-based system to recognise the broad range of skills and competences developed through formal, non-formal and informal learning. It will value and reward the experience of teachers in the classroom, their participation in broader networks, peer learning and their own learning initiatives. It will enhance quality of teachers training and encourage transnational mobility of teachers through a recognisable common qualification.

The TILL project will:

– Investigate the conditions for a successful teacher qualification

– Develop the qualification and the process to obtain it (competences description, criteria for quality measurement, levels of attainment, process of evidence collection, assessment, levelling and quality assurance procedures, certification process)

– Build consensus and stakeholders agreement on TILL to make the qualification acceptable at national, EU and international level;

– Pilot the qualification in the participating countries and collect feedback in view of its review and consolidation;

– Match the new qualification with existing institutional arrangements for teachers training at national level

– Promote the TILL qualification and certificate among teachers and education stakeholders at national and European level, so to create a bottom-up demand around the qualification;

– Monitor and assess the impact of TILL on teaching quality and teaching workforce mobility.
The expected impact of the new qualification is very significant, since all the project outputs will be maintained after the end of EU funding; the Qualification itself will be updated and proposed to new cohorts of teachers in several countries according to the development plan, future implementation activities will continue to be monitored following a QA action paradigm. The financial commitment of the leading institution -subject to a positive uptake by teachers- goes well beyond the three years foreseen for EU funding, and the prospective of building a sustainable certification activity at EU and international level -essentially fed by the certification fees- is the leading idea for the sustainability of the TILL results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 346552,41 Eur

Project Coordinator

ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN TRUST & Country: UK

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA
• FONDATION DES REGIONS EUROPEENNES POUR LA RECHERCHE EN EDUCATION ET ENFORMATION
• GO! Basisschool Vlinderwijs
• OREBRO UNIVERSITY