Current epidemiological crisis has exposed a big problem - teachers’ lack of competences in distance teaching, organization of distance education and in usage of ICT tools in school management. Polish teachers had to switch to a completely new way of teaching overnight. Everything is strengthened by the atmosphere of uncertainty and threat as well as the fear of organizational change resulting from the need to use new tools. In teachers' environment, there is now an awareness of the need to develop their competences towards remote education and usage of ICT tools to organize school work and manage the educational process at various levels. Goal of our project is to respond to the abovementioned need. We want to create and promote a system enabling teachers from all over Europe to effectively diagnose and develop their competences in terms of distance education. Specific objectives: 1. Research the current technological trends in the area of education and the needs of teachers. 2. Development of testing methodology for teachers' current and expected competences essential for conducting a multidisciplinary education via online resources and tools 3. Development and release of tools to effectively and in accordance with regulations build and implement individualized curricula. 4. Preparation of teacher training staff to use our developed system and online tools. With this project, we want to give teachers a necessary and important, but easy to use tools, thanks to which they will be able to assess their competences, choose the right development path and improve their knowledge, either alone or in cooperation with a trainer. It is also a set of tools for practitioners responsible for raising teachers' competences, which will significantly facilitate their work and make it more effective. Project is directed to education staff in three European countries - Italy, Hungary and Poland, although the results developed in the project will be universal and applicable in all countries of the community. A minimum of 945 participants will directly participate in the project. The project can be divided into 3 stages: 1. Conducting a survey on teachers' competences in distance learning. 2. Development of a Competency Model, Participant's Panel (a website with knowledge base and set of tools for self-evaluation, planning a development path, visualizing own results and separate profile for the educational institution) and Training Methodology together with training programs and teaching materials (TTT training and teacher training). 3. Dissemination and learning-related activities (training of TTT trainers). Each of the stages will start and close with an international meeting (4 meetings). During the implementation of the project, 4 intellectual results will also be developed, which will be created in 4 language versions - in Italian, English, Hungarian and Polish. O1 - study + report + research methodology allowing to replicate whole study O2 - competence model O3 - a set of online tools enabling independent diagnosis, visualization of test results, planning personal development as well as planning training and implementation of new IT solutions at the school level A4 - Train The Trainers methodology and teacher training along with teaching programs and materials. Dissemination activities will include 30 schools and 300 teachers, principals and people involved in the development of school staff in 3 countries. Project includes 3 international trainings in which 45 trainers will participate. During the project, we will influence over 1000 teachers, principals and trainers training teachers in 3 countries. They will be able to improve their competences in an organized way, document their development, plan further work, implement modern systems in the school, or supplement their CV with a well-illustrated analysis that can be supported by certified trainers. As all results will be in electronic form, maintaining them for a long time after the end of the project will be simple and will allow us to build a larger community around the tools and reach a wider audience. In the perspective of 5 years, we assume that we reach target group of 3000 teachers, 150 schools and 70 certified trainers. The system we develop, or parts of it, like research, will be ready to be transferred to other European countries.
Our goal was to create and promote a system enabling teachers from all over Europe to effectively diagnose and develop competences for distance education. The project gave teachers a necessary and important, but easy-to-use tool - an online self-diagnosis platform, thanks to which they can independently or in cooperation with a trainer assess their competences, choose the right development path and improve their knowledge. It is also a tool for practitioners responsible for improving the competences of teachers and management staff of educational institutions. Our specific goals were: Examining current technological trends in the field of education and the needs of teachers, Developing a method for examining the current and expected competences of teachers necessary to conduct multidisciplinary education using digital resources and tools. Developing and providing tools to effectively build and implement individualized teaching programs in accordance with regulations. Preparing teacher training staff to use the developed system and tools.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the problem of teachers' competences in remote teaching, organizing remote education and managing the educational process using ICT tools. They had to switch to a completely new way of teaching, which created an atmosphere of uncertainty and threat, as well as fear of change. Teachers became aware of the need to develop their competences towards distance education and the possibility of using ICT tools to organize school work and manage the educational process at various levels. We wanted to create and promote a system that would enable teachers from all over Europe to effectively diagnose and develop competences for distance education. The project was aimed at educational staff in three European countries - Italy, Hungary and Poland, but the results developed in the project are universal and can be applied in all countries of the community. 1070 participants took part in the project.