Lessons Learned during COVID:
Transferability of Best Practice in European Education
The two-year project will bring together good and innovative practices from the movers and shakers in European education and how they adapted their schools, education, training and teaching activities to the global Covid pandemic. By assembling real stories from educational and training providers across levels, we seek to create a collection of proven reactive methods for dealing with any future situations where schools, teachers and learners have to adapt, change and react to uncontrollable outside forces.
The objectives of the project will be to collect and disseminate these practices, arrange and execute training seminars in the partner countries as well as develop and test new approaches where teachers and trainers implement these practices within their own fields of education. We will use and document cases where these methodologies and approaches are implemented in VET schools, physical education, education in rural areas, course development for disabled learnes, physical education and training for the elderly, to name a few.
The objectives of the project will be to collect and disseminate these practices, arrange and execute training seminars in the partner countries as well as develop and test new approaches where teachers and trainers implement these practices within their own fields of education. We will use and document cases where these methodologies and approaches are implemented in VET schools, physical education, education in rural areas, course development for disabled learnes, physical education and training for the elderly, to name a few.
Project Information
The project will be carried out in four key phases: (1) Gathering of regional, national and international innovative practices; (2) Teacher training seminars both physical and online; (3) Developing and documenting the adaptation of different approaches within target groups; and (4) Disseminating and promoting open source toolkits and good practices.
Alongside the project, university partners will emphasise on looking at learners and teachers readiness towards flexibility and adaptability. They will examine what it takes to acquire a ”digital mindset” by identifying and defining a set of attitudes and behaviours that enable teachers and organizations to foresee digital possibilities and how to take advantage of these pedagogically and didactically.
Emphasis will be on the more difficult areas of education and training, e.g. physical education, vocational education and training for the elderly, and how these groups can learn and adapt techniques and educational approaches utilising IT, blended learning models and flipped classroom.
During project meetings, the group will visit these institutions and learn first hand from the people involved, interviewing and collecting video diaries. The impact will hopefully both assist current education and training providers in coping with the new reality for teachers and learners alike, as well as to prepare us for future scenarios where schools have to adapt to unforseen circumstances.
Alongside the project, university partners will emphasise on looking at learners and teachers readiness towards flexibility and adaptability. They will examine what it takes to acquire a ”digital mindset” by identifying and defining a set of attitudes and behaviours that enable teachers and organizations to foresee digital possibilities and how to take advantage of these pedagogically and didactically.
Emphasis will be on the more difficult areas of education and training, e.g. physical education, vocational education and training for the elderly, and how these groups can learn and adapt techniques and educational approaches utilising IT, blended learning models and flipped classroom.
During project meetings, the group will visit these institutions and learn first hand from the people involved, interviewing and collecting video diaries. The impact will hopefully both assist current education and training providers in coping with the new reality for teachers and learners alike, as well as to prepare us for future scenarios where schools have to adapt to unforseen circumstances.
