Towards a European syllabus in teacher education
TESTEd is a European project, co-funded by the European Union, in five countries: Finland, Ireland, Germany, Spain & Portugal with many great activities. The project’s goal is the development of an interdisciplinary European Syllabus providing an international perspective on global teaching challenges:
- Together with experts we develop a syllabus on five school-relevant, cross-cutting issues.
- Teacher training students from all participating countries learn about the topics in lectures.
- Maker Space weeks facilitate the creative process: How can the topics be linked to school curricula?
- Students and teachers become a European peer group for discussion and promotion of the European idea in education.
- Teachers learn about current topics, discuss with international peers and work on classroom materials and help develop the syllabus in our training-course for in-service teachers > see more information in the info-boxes below.
Our training course for in-service teachers:
- Teachers from all partner countries are invited to participate in the project!
- Learn more about the course programme below.
- Participation in the course is free of charge.
Start of the second course is September 25, 2024.
Registration:
Info Session for the upcoming cpd course 2024/2025
You are a teacher and interested in our cpd course?
Join one of our Q&A sessions to learn more about the course!
Next dates:
- August 28, 2024
- September 11, 2024
- September 18, 2024
4 pm: Ireland & Portugal
5 pm: Germany & Spain
6pm: Finland
About TESTEd
Europe faces global cross-cutting demographic, climatic, economic, technical and political challenges for which its education system must prepare future generations. Teachers are faced with a growing demand and responsibility to address cross-cutting challenges and ensure high quality education so that pupils from different backgrounds become politically mature European citizens, who can adapt to future societal changes.
To ensure that teachers are prepared to meet these challenges, universities and institutions in teacher education have to include ESD, democratic education, gender sensitivity, digitalisation (would digital competency be a better word here?) and multilingualism in initial teacher education as well as in continuous professional development (CPD) courses, making sure, that education in Europe will remain committed to and continue to further diversity, human rights, social justice” and democratic freedom.
Although initial teacher education and in-service teacher education has started to include cross-cutting issues in their courses, there is no systematic European Syllabus which focuses on these topics. Instead, universities and training institutes place different foci according to their fields of expertise, thus creating a highly diverse teacher education landscape in which pre-service and in-service teachers have to rely on coincidental learning opportunities or independent studies to further their competencies.
The project’s goal is the development of an interdisciplinary European Syllabus providing an international perspective on global teaching challenges.
Learn more about TESTEd on the official project homepage!
5 cross-cutting issues
The cross-cutting issues which should be foregrounded in teacher education include (but are not limited to).
- Education for a Sustainable Development (ESD)
- Democratic education and active citizenship
- Gender sensitivity in teaching and learning
- An open and inclusive approach to multilingualism and diversity
- Digitalisation
Course programme
The course takes place mainly online and includes a wide range of learning activities:
- Self-directed learning on Moodle, a virtual learning platform
- Exchange and discussion with all international colleagues in Zoom
- Seminars on practical transfer in the home country, probably at the respective university of the home country
- Multiplier training via Zoom
- Indvidual Portfolio-work
Participation requirements
All school teachers of the 5 participating partner countries are invited to participate: Finland, Ireland, Germany, Spain & Portugal.
The language requirement is English at a level that allows active participation and discussion.
You should be able to follow short excerpts of a video lecture in English. Subtitles in the five national languages will support your understanding!
Certificate
Participate in all parts of the training and receive a certificate confirming all achievements and the workload!
The certificate is issued in English and in your national language.
Project partners
In the TESTEd project, universities, CPD providers and schools work together to develop and implement the European Syllabus for teacher education. Furthermore, other stakeholders in teacher education support the Syllabus development and quality assurance in the project through their critical feedback and input.
Learn more about the project partners from Finland, Germany, Ireland, Spain & Portugal >>> TESTEd-Homepage