A European project on teachers professional profile in ICT for education

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Vittorio Midoro

Partners

Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche - CNR, Italy

prime contractor

Università di Venezia, SSIS Veneto, Italy

University of Glasgow, Faculty of Education, UKforward

A Common European framework of teachers’ professional profile in ICTxED

Background

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The knowledge society

The new school

The change

Pioneer Teachers in ICTxED

European Teachers towards the knowledge society

Aims

To produce:

• An overview of teachers’ professional profile in

ICTxED assumed as basis for Initial Teacher

Education and Continuous Professional

Development in the European Countries

• A Common European Framework of teachers’

professional profile in ICTxED

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• The Uteacher partnership

• a European network of National

Investigators (NI).

Actors

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The national investigators

• 19 NI in European countries contacted and appointed

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Strategy

• The NIs produced

national reports based on

guidelines

• NIs and UTEACHER staff

met in Venice for a 6-day

international Seminar

• NIs and UTEACHER staff

are cooperating online to

produce the framework

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4th -9th October 2004

Outputs

• A book containing an overview at European level based on national reports on professional profiles in ICT for Education assumed as basis for benchmarking initial and in-service training.

• A book + hypermedia on a shared European Framework for teachers’ professional development in ICT for Education.

• A feasibility study for developing a European system aimed at extending and making sustainable the framework

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Conclusions

• Finalising the framework (June 2005)

• Dissemination• Promoting actions to start

implementing the feasibility study

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• Section 1: An overview of ITE and CPD pertaining to ICT in Education across Europe

• Section 2: Country situations

• Section 3: Position papers

Book 1

• A Common European framework of teachers’ professional profile in ICTxED describes the practice of a teacher operating effectively within the knowledge society

Common European Framework

• Elaboration of sillabi on ICT for Education

• Harmonization of existing national programs or initiatives;

• Curriculum guidelines• Examinations• Textbooks• Enhances the transparency of courses,

sillabi and qualifications, thus promoting international co-operation and mobility

Across Europe, provides basis for

users

• Syllabus designers• Materials developers• Publishers• Stake-holders • Decision makers• Ministry officials• Teachers• Teacher trainers• ………..