Creative approach to
continuing professional development of teachers in Europe
LLP-LdV/VETPRO/2011/RO/ 217
Following approval of funding within
the frame of Leonardo da Vinci Programme, a group of 15 professionals in
education from Timis County have participated in a VETPRO mobility. The target
group was made up of teacher trainers, education consultants, inspectors, specialty
teachers in VET schools. The mobility took place in Southampton, UK between, 4
and 17 March 2012.
The mobility was the main activity
of the project entitled Creative approach to continuing professional
development of teachers in Europe, which was aimed at the development of
human resources in units of school education who have also responsibilities in
the field of the design and implementation of activities for continuing
professional development.
AIMS of the mobility was:
• to acquire certain new
competences in knowledge and understanding of successful continuing training
systems and management practices implemented in educational institutions from
European countries.
• to reflect on the
difference between the job of a teacher and that of a trainer.
• to build new
competences in the field of continuing professional development of teachers
with focus on the following aspects: needs analysis (taking into consideration
the context of teaching and learning process), and planning of the training programme
(taking into account the dynamics of various learner groups).
• to transfer, into the
Timis education system, knowledge and abilities which should help the target
group to implement successfully a training course focused on how to develop
students’ creativity
• to assemble a team of
15 trainers in the management of training programmes centered around the
development of teachers’ competencies in agreement with the approved
professional standards.
The UK partner in the project,
INTERNATIONAL STUDY PROGRAMMES, with headquarters in Cheltenham, has 28-year
experience in the management of European Projects in the field of education and
training. The two week period of the mobility was chosen in order to allow the
participants to visit several types of institutions implied in education such
as: primary and secondary schools, continuing professional development centres,
and to discuss with teachers, trainers, education managers and to compare the
systems of education from Romania with that from UK.
During the free time, at the end of
the week, participants could explore the British culture both on their own and
in groups, during the organised tours of Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury,
Stonehenge, Bath and London. They could also develop intercultural competences
in non-formal interactions with their host families and with other persons from
the local community.
Project’s results:
- A
team of trainers with improved competences of knowledge and understanding
of learning processes in schools from the perspective of the new
tendencies in modern didactics at European level;
- A
guide of Good Practice focusing on new creative methods of motivating
pupils to participate in their own learning;
- Improved
competencies in communicating in English and in relating within the
cultural medium in host country as well as in participating to their own
professional development and to defining a personal style of action and
intervention;
- An
innovating strategy of promoting the public image of the beneficiary
institution and of innovations in pedagogy and didactics.
