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Blended Learning in Teachers‘ Professional Development - Developing a Blended Learning Course in Content Area Literacy for Secondary Teachers (BleTeach)
Blended Learning in Teachers‘ Professional Development (BleTeach) is an Erasmus+ project under KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices: “Strategic partnerships in the field of education, training and youth“ - project number: VG-SPS-NW-15-30-013892.
Partners (BleTeach Consortium). The BleTeach-Consortium consists of 8 partner institutions working in different countries and in different fields of teacher education:
- Partner 1 - Germany: University of Cologne (Coordinator)
- Partner 2 - Romania: Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking, Romanian Association, Cluj-Napoca
- Partner 3 - Hungary: Kecskemét College (KeCo)
- Partner 4 - Germany: Pedagogical State Institute Rhineland-Palatinate
- Partner 5 - Belgium: University of Liège
- Partner 6: Belgium: Haute Ecole de la Ville de Liège
- Partner 7 – Portugal: University of Minho, Braga
- Additional partner 8 (on self financing basis): Russia: Herzen Pedagogical State University Sankt Petersburg.
- In addition the BleTeach-Consortium cooperates with a total of 40 “associated partners”: in-service teacher training institutions and schools.
Project Duration: November 2015 – April 2018
Co-financed by the European Commission
Aim: The BLETEACH project addresses two crucial needs in teachers´ continuous professional development (CPD) in most European countries:
1. A general (structural) problem: The unsatisfying structures of teachers' continuous professional development (CPD) in the EU.
2. A specific (content related) problem: the lack of expertise of secondary school teachers, i.e. content area teachers required to address the problem of low literacy skills of children and adolescents in many European countries.
Objectives: BleTeach pursues two main objectives:
- A general objective: Modernizing structures of teacher education by integrating digital learning opportunities into teachers´ professional development.
- A specific objective: Developing a model blended learning course (BL-course) in CAL to be included into the regular course programme of around 40 European Teacher Training Centres.
Target groups:
1) secondary teachers of all school subjects and
2) teacher trainers / in-service training institutions in teacher education.
Types of activities: research, elaboration of reports, elaboration of materials, setting-up an e-learning platform, multiplier events, transnational project meeting, learning/ training activity.
Main results of the project:
Altogether, BleTeach will deliver six intellectual outputs which are closely connected to the two project objectives:
- national reports on good practice examples and concepts in blended learning in teachers´ CPD in Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Romania (and Russia);
- pool of concepts and course materials about Content Area Literacy Training for Secondary Teachers in English and all involved national languages;
- “Guidelines for Success”: Handbook of Success Factors in Blended Learning Offers for Teachers´ In-service Training;
- Concept and Preparation of Materials for Content Area Literacy Course addressing Secondary Teachers (Including Adaptations and Translations) - RO version of the course;
- Blended Learning Course in CAL for Secondary Teachers and Teacher Trainers – Producing the master version (English) and five national versions including all materials (worksheets, texts, assignments, PPTs, video presentations, etc.);
- Concept for implementation of BleTeach CAL course, including Certification and Accreditation Requirements.
For more information, please visit the project website.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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