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Implementation Strategies for Innovations in Teachers' Professional Development – ISIT
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The project Implementation Strategies for Innovations in Teachers' Professional Development – ISIT (539512-LLP-1-2013-1-DE-COMENIUS-CAM) is implemented by the Romanian RWCT Association within the Lifelong Learning Programme – action Comenius Accompanying measures, in collaboration with:
- University of Cologne (UCO), Germany (Raport național - România institution);
- Hungarian Institute for Educational research and Development (HIERD), Budapest, Hungary;
- Kecskemét College (KeCo), Kecskemét, Ungaria;
- Casa Corpului Didactic „Alexandru Gavra”, Arad (CCD Arad), România;
- Fundația Filocalia (FiFo), Iași, România;
- University of Liège (ULG), Belgia;
- Centre for the Advancement of Research & Development in Educational Technology (CARDET), Nicosia, Cipru;
- Jyväskylä University (JyU), Jyväskylä, Finlanda;
- Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (AUT), Grecia;
- University of Minho (UMinho), Braga, Portugalia.
Brief description: ISIT builds upon the results of the Comenius project BaCuLit (see Materials on this Website and under www.baculit.eu) providing a comprehensive curriculum in content area literacy for teachers´ continuous professional development, including course materials and trainer handbooks. ISIT aims at implementing this concept into the CPD structure of Germany, Hungary and Romania, where a total of 30 teacher educators from 25 different training institutions will be made familiar with CAL instruction and especially with the BaCuLit curriculum.
The project follows an action research approach, which means not to separate research from action. Therefore the trainers will analyse together with scientists the steps and obstacles in implementing CAL courses in their institutions. Thus, ISIT intends to explore the general opportunities and obstacles in implementing innovation into teachers CPD in these 3 countries.
Donor: European Commission, EACEA.
Duration: 1 December 2013 – 30 November 2014
Target groups: teacher trainers (narrow target group), secondary school teachers, secondary school students with low literacy skills (broadest target group).
Goals: The ISIT project addresses two of the crucial needs defined by the Education and Training Benchmarks for 2020 and by the High Level Group of Experts on Literacy (HLGEL 2012):
a) the problem of low literacy skills in many European countries
b) the unsatisfying status of teachers' continuous professional development (CPD) in the EU.
Aims and objectives: ISIT pursues three goals:
a) a specific goal: training 30 teacher educators from 3 European countries in content area literacy (CAL);
b) a general, comparative goal: analysing good examples of how to implement innovations into different national structures of CPD;
c) the dissemination of CAL into five other countries.
Types of activities: training of trainers (a national blended-learning course consisting of two one-day-seminars, a three-months´ E-learning-course and one common international summer school of one week in Germany in august 2014), implementation and action research.
Deliverables and outcomes:
- 30 teacher trainers certified as BaCuLit trainers;
- Implementation logbooks;
- three national implementation reports: National Report - Romania, National Report - Germany, National Report - Hungary;
- one final comparative implementation report;
- project website.
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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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