Practices

Thematic Field: Teaching professions
Contextual
(CLIMATE)
Learning in Management and Teaching in Europe
Comenius Multilateral Project
Institutions involved:
Högskolan I Gävle (SE); Staatliches Seminar für Didaktik und Lehrerbildung
(Gymnasien) Tübingen (DE); Tartu Ulikool (EE); Platform Opleiding, Onderwijs En
Organisatie – Universiteit Leiden (NL); Zavod Rs Za Solstvo (SI); Umeå Universitet -
För Svenska Och Samhällsvetenskapliga Ämmen (SE); Noordelijke Hogeschool
Leeuwarden (NL)
Coordinating institution:
Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
Key words: School leadership, Improving learning, Teacher reflectivity, Teacher
educators
Description:
This project intended to provide tools to make schools a better and more
productive learning environment for teachers. It investigated the relationship
between characteristics of the work environment, learning processes within teams and
the quality of their work.
The project targeted facilitators of professional learning: teacher educators, in service
trainers and advisors. As a basis for further work the project carried out research into
the knowledge productivity of managers and teachers in schools. During the life
time of the project, teacher teams in 16 schools were involved as associated partners.
It developed instruments that help teachers to scan their work environment to see
to what extent it may be considered a learning environment for them. The project also
developed guidelines on how to introduce the framework and the instruments, process
and analyse data, provide feedback, make use of the conclusions and how to turn
these into actions and on how teachers may turn their work environment into a
learning environments thus developing their own corporate curriculum.
The projects chose to measure and describe "quality" within an area of performance
that is relevant for teachers all over Europe: dealing with diversity among students.
Therefore – as a side effect - CLIMATE also provides descriptions of practice
illustrating how teacher teams' knowledge productivity in dealing with diversity can be
raised.
The partnership developed an inventory of good practices of how teachers develop
parts of their own corporate curriculum and provided examples of how lifelong
learning of staff affects the key competences of pupils and students.
Duration:
2008-2010
Webpage:
http://www.socialsciences.leiden.edu/plato/climate/
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/projects/public_parts/documents/comenius/com_mp_14
2382_climate.pdf
http://www.socialsciences.leiden.edu/plato/climate/project/envisaged-impact.html
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