This two-year project involves 5 partners from 5 countries. It addresses this issue of putting pedagogical theory into practice to improve the quality of initial teacher training and produce more confident teachers who are less likely to leave the profession early. The resources to be developed and the methodology to be adopted are based on a PedPack for schools, which was developed by the UK National Strategies over a decade ago, but not widely taken up at the time due to policy changes. However, the topics, although in need of updating, are still relevant. They are based on whole school strategies, rather than subject specific approaches, to implement pedagogical theory in practice. This project will provide updated digital resources in 5 key areas to improve the delivery of ITE and support teachers in their early years to both make the teaching profession more attractive and reduce the drop-out rate due to pressure. Five key topic areas have been identified by the partners and previous cohorts of trainee teachers as: • Structuring Learning • Teaching Models • Assessment for Learning • Developing Effective Learning • Classroom Management The project addresses a number of the areas highlighted in the ET2020 paper, ‘A guide on policies to improve Initial Teacher Education’, (2015) which pointed out the ‘urgent need to improve Initial Teacher Education’ The objectives of the project are to: • update five areas of the pedagogical guidance and digitise them • put the updated guidance into practice in teacher training provision in 5 countries • trial and test the methodology and the resources • undertake an impact study on the whole school methodology and the resources • share the outcomes and materials widely The project addresses the Horizontal Priority of educators… • by strengthening the induction of candidates for the teaching profession to support high-quality teaching It addresses the Erasmus+ School Priorities of… • strengthening the recruitment of teachers to make the career more attractive and supporting teachers in adopting more innovative practices The specific outputs of the project are: • A digitised set of pedagogical resources in 5 areas for use in the training and support of trainee teachers • A training package for teacher trainers and school based mentors in the use of the resource • A longitudinal impact study on the PedPack methodology and the updated resources with case studies • A website hosting the downloadable resources and case studies • A set of dissemination materials and seminars in 5 countries • A research report with recommendations on policy The overall anticipated result will be a new training model and resources and evidence that this can impact on the quality of teaching, despite different educational and cultural contexts. They will be made freely available to regional authorities, training providers and schools across the EU.
This two-year project involved 5 partners from 5 countries. It addressed the issue of putting pedagogical theory into practice to improve the quality of initial teacher training and produce more confident teachers who are less likely to leave the profession early. The resources that were developed and the methodology that was adopted were based on a PedPack for schools, which was developed by the UK National Strategies over a decade ago, but not widely taken up at the time due to policy changes. However, the topics, although in need of updating, were still relevant. They were based on whole school strategies, rather than subject specific approaches, to implement pedagogical theory in practice. This project developed updated digital resources to improve the delivery of ITE and support teachers in their early years to both make the teaching profession more attractive and reduce the drop-out rate due to pressure. Partners started by analysing five key topic areas: • Structuring Learning • Teaching Models • Assessment for Learning • Developing Effective Learning • Classroom Management However, they concluded that there was considerable overlap in the topics of Structuring Learning and Developing Effective Learning, so merged these into a new topic Developing Effective Learners. The project addressed a number of the areas highlighted in the ET2020 paper, ‘A guide on policies to improve Initial Teacher Education’, (2015) which pointed out the ‘urgent need to improve Initial Teacher Education’ The objectives of the project were to: • update five areas of the pedagogical guidance and digitise them • put the updated guidance into practice in teacher training provision in 5 countries • trial and test the methodology and the resources • undertake an impact study on the whole school methodology and the resources • share the outcomes and materials widely The project addressed the Horizontal Priority of educators… • by strengthening the induction of candidates for the teaching profession to support high-quality teaching It addressed the Erasmus+ School Priorities of… • strengthening the recruitment of teachers to make the career more attractive and supporting teachers in adopting more innovative practices The specific outputs of the project were: • A digitised set of pedagogical resources in 4 areas for use in the training and support of trainee teachers • A longitudinal impact study on the PedPack methodology and the updated resources • A website hosting the downloadable resources and case studies - http://pedpack.eu/ • A set of dissemination materials and seminars in 5 countries • A research report with recommendations on policy The overall result is a new training model and resources and evidence that this impacts on the quality of teaching, despite different educational and cultural contexts. The resources are freely downloadable from the project website http://pedpack.eu/.