Since Covid-19 emerged to a pandemic in 2020 it has compelled many governments around Europe to take extreme measures of lock down to a degree unimaginable until then. As a result, millions of Europeans were forced to stay home for an extended period of time. Unexpectedly teachers had to teach from home for the first time, students needed to continue learning from home for the first time and parents had to support their kids becoming in some ways a home teacher. This new reality found most teachers, unprepared to adapt their teaching, leaving, producing, creating, learning and living habits and be as productive and effective while staying at home. In order to help address this, the ONLIFE project aims to develop a methodology which will support the life adaptability of teachers in the online teaching process in School Education so they can have hybrid competences as teachers. ONLIFE aims at supporting the European Union priority Partnership for Digital Educational Reading TO ASWER TO THE CURRENT COVID-19 CRISIS WITH THE RIGHTS SKILLS AND COMPETENCE FOR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL LEADERS, namely Teachers and school leaders. ONLIFE stands for Empower hybrid Competences for Onlife Adaptable Teaching in School Education in times of pandemic. How? The project aims at empowering teachers and school leaders to face the digital transformation of the educational system in time of crisis. Indeed, the goal is to reinforce the schools to provide high quality and inclusive digital education to their students through the development of: 1. A Guidebook “Pattern for enhancing digital technologies in School education (SE) * 2. A Training course for teaching in SE 3. ONLIFE Learning Paradigm (OLP): Teacher Competences, Methods & Approaches in SE* 4. Recommendation and guidelines for School System bodies in providing useful framework instruments to improve teaching quality. TARGET GROUPs The DIRECT TARGET GROUP of the project is represented by teachers and educational leaders as they first need to adapt the teaching methodologies to the pandemic and student’s needs. The INDIRECT TARGET GROUP of the project is represented by STUDENTS and their families that can benefit from the innovative learning material of the projects The project will last two years, namely 24 months. ONLIFE is a strategic partnership with at 8 partners.
The new pandemic reality found most teachers, unprepared to adapt their teaching, leaving, producing, creating, learning, and living habits and be as productive and effective while staying at home. In order to help address this, the ONLIFE project developed a methodology, that supports the life adaptability of teachers in the online teaching process in School Education so they can have hybrid competencies as teachers. Through its outputs, the project development plan empowers teachers and school leaders to face the digital transformation of the educational system in times of crisis. Indeed, the objective was to reinforce the schools to provide high-quality and inclusive digital education to their students through the development of : 1. A Guidebook: Patterns for enhancing digital technologies in School Education (SE) 2. A Training course for teaching in SE 3. ONLIFE Learning Paradigm (OLP): Teacher Competences, Methods & Approaches in SE 4. Recommendations and guidelines for School System bodies in providing useful framework instruments to improve teaching quality. All of the above can be found on the project webspace: https://onlife.up.krakow.pl/outputs/ More supporting documents are available in the project reporting GD: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zkxQWZQoP6oD4MzE_2tTI1kX34muGhxd
Since Covid-19 emerged as a pandemic in 2020 it has compelled many governments around Europe to take extreme measures of lockdown to a degree unimaginable until then. As a result, millions of Europeans were forced to stay home for an extended period of time. Unexpectedly teachers had to teach from home for the first time, students needed to continue learning from home for the first time and parents had to support their kids becoming in some ways a home teacher. This new reality found most teachers, unprepared to adapt their teaching, leaving, producing, creating, learning and living habits and be as productive and effective while staying at home. In order to help address this, the ONLIFE project developed a methodology, which supports the life adaptability of teachers in the online teaching process in School Education so they can have hybrid competencies as teachers. ONLIFE is supporting the European Union priority Partnership for Digital Educational Reading TO ANSWER TO THE CURRENT COVID-19 CRISIS WITH THE RIGHTS SKILLS AND COMPETENCE FOR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL LEADERS, namely Teachers and school leaders. ONLIFE stands for Empowering Hybrid Competences for Onlife Adaptable Teaching in School Education in times of pandemic. The project results are supporting the empowering of teachers and school leaders to face the digital transformation of the educational system in times of crisis. Indeed, the goal was to reinforce the schools to provide high-quality and inclusive digital education to their students through the development of: 1. A Guidebook: Pattern for enhancing digital technologies in School Education (SE) 2. A Training course for teaching in SE 3. ONLIFE Learning Paradigm (OLP): Teacher Competences, Methods & Approaches in SE 4. Recommendations and guidelines for School System bodies in providing useful framework instruments to improve teaching quality. The DIRECT TARGET GROUP of the project is represented by teachers and educational leaders as they first need to adapt the teaching methodologies to the pandemic and student’s needs. The INDIRECT TARGET GROUP of the project is represented by STUDENTS and their families that can benefit from the innovative learning material of the projects The project lasted 24 months with a strategic partnership of 8 partners