The Teacher Training Centre Puerto del Rosario, taking into account the needs of its team of 5 pedagogical advisors, and both Sto. Tomás de Aquino and San Diego de Alcalá High Schools tried to achieve the following main aims through this project: - To improve teaching and professional skills. - To internationalize our teacher training centre and the educational centres within our area. - To know other European education systems and exchange teaching experiences. - To foster communicative competence in order to improve professional skills. - To acquire resources and strategies to educate on inclusiveness and diversity. - To improve the digital competence and encourage the use of information and communication technologies in the classroom. - To increase professional competences of teacher trainers. - To acquire skills in order to enhance professional motivation of teachers and students, combating school absenteeism, drop-out and failure. - To encourage the use of European professional networks and platforms. - To provide students with the necessary skills to succeed in European society in the 21st century. - To promote a tolerant, supportive, inclusive, equal, democratic, sustainable and healthy school.
Our project “Teachers for Europe” was created by the consortium among three educational centres in Puerto del Rosario, the capital of the island of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands): the Teacher Training Centre Puerto del Rosario, the only public institution belonging to the Council of the Ministry of Education in the Canary Islands that provides teacher training and support to 37 educational centres (Infant, Primary, Secondary and Adult Education) and their teachers, having an impact on their students’ teaching-learning process; the High School Santo Tomás de Aquino (676 students and 54 teachers); and the High School San Diego de Alcalá (952 students and 79 teachers). Our main purpose was to carry out job-shadowing activities as well as structured training courses in different European educational environments that provided us with knowledge, abilities, attitudes, new strategies and innovative methodologies we could disseminate to teachers of our educational centres, having an important impact on the need for internationalization and European awareness of our school community, and compensating not only advisors and trainers, but also teachers, for reduced training possibilities, due to our geographical constraints.