Teachers in Action

 

 

Welcome to Teachers in Action! Making learning more interesting through good teaching practice

 

Teacher assessment is a key activity in the training and personal development of good teachers. The Teachers in Action EU Leonardo da Vinci project provided an opportunity for partners in six countries, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Sweden and UK, to come together and share important aspects of teacher training. The following products were developed by the project partners based on the shared good practice of the partner institutions:

• A Common Framework for Teacher Observational Assessment

 

• A European Guide to Good Practice in Training Teachers of Disadvantaged Groups

 

• Six training packages to promote good teachning practice.
• Projecting confidence within the learning environment
• Behaviour management of learners
• Maintaining trainee teacher motivation
• Active learning techniques
• Improving motivation among learners
• Cultural awareness in the environment

 

 

A Common Framework for Teacher Observational Assessment (English)

BG, FR, HU, LT, SE

(French translation coming soon)

A European Guide to Good Practice in Training Teachers of Disadvantaged Groups (Including Learning Styles) (English)

BG, FR, HU, LT, SE

(French and Lithuanian translations coming soon)

 

The Common Framework for Teacher Observational Assessment and the European Guide to Good Practice in Training Teachers of Disadvantaged Groups are available for downloading from this website in six languages: English, Bulgarian, French, Hungarian, Lithuanian and Swedish.

The abstracts for the six training packages below are also available for downloading by clicking on the language links.

 

Projecting confidence within the learning environment

Created by the partners from Bulgaria

This training package offers an entire programme of separate training sessions designed to build the skills and confidence of the trainee teacher in the classroom.  A variety of resources are offered for immediate use. The package is available in Bulgarian and English.

 

Downloads of abstracts in: BG, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE

(English, Lithuanian and Swedish translations coming soon)

http://www.ru.acad.bg/

 

 

Behaviour management of learners

Created by the partners from France

This training package is in the form of a DVD showing good classroom practice and an explanation of the individual learning programmes (PPRE) used in France. The DVD is available in French and also with an English commentary.

 

www.ac-grenoble.fr

pilar.de-bernardy@ac-grenoble.fr

Downloads of abstracts in: BG, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE

(French, Lithuanian and Swedish translations coming soon)

 

 

Maintaining trainee teacher motivation

Created by the partners from Hungary

This training package offers ideas for taking learners out of the classroom and using the natural environment.   The package is available in both Hungarian and English.

Downloads of abstracts in: BG, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE

bneagi@freemail.hu and fay@profinter.hu 

(Lithuanian and Swedish translations coming soon)

 

 

Active learning techniques

Created by the partners from Lithuania

This training package offers an entire programme to enable trainee and practising teachers to build up ILT skills by engaging with technology.  The programme has roots in EVETE, a previous Leonardo project. The package is available in Lithuanian and English

Danguole Rutkauskiene

distance@distance.ktu.lt

www.emtc.ktu.lt

Downloads of abstracts in: BG, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE

(English and Swedish translations coming soon)

 

 

Improving motivation among learners

Created by the partners from Sweden

This training package offers an insight into the use of technology to engage disadvantaged learners.  An example of the programme in action is offered. The package is available in both Swedish and English.

Eva Darell

eva.darell@kultur.stockholm.se

www.kulturskolan.stockholm.se

Downloads of abstracts in: BG, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE

(Lithuanian and Swedish translations coming soon)

 

 

Cultural awareness in the environment

 

Created by the partners from the U.K.

This training package offers both a structured programme, and a range of resources for immediate use, designed to build an awareness of cultural diversity and the issues around such diversity with trainee and practising teachers.  This package is available in English.

 

For further information on this training package please contact:

contact@stratford.ac.uk

www.stratford.ac.uk

Downloads of abstracts in: BG, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE

(Swedish translation coming soon)