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Competences of Professional Educators in Europe<br />
Comenius Multilateral Project<br />
Thematic Field: Teaching professions<br />
Institutions involved:<br />
Cardinal August Hlond Upper Silesian College Of Pedagogical Education (PL);<br />
Bucharest University (RO); Universiteit Twente (NL); University College Jelling /<br />
University College Lillebaelt (DK); Bergen University College (NO); Teachers<br />
Continuing Education Institution In Gdansk (PL); Casa Corpului Didactic (RO);<br />
Universitat De Les Illes Balears (ES); Saxion Hogescholen (NL)<br />
Coordinating institution:<br />
CEP MANACOR (Spain)<br />
Key words: Teacher competences<br />
Description:<br />
COPE aimed to make a contribution to study the competences of teachers in Europe<br />
at the levels of both initial and in-service teacher training. The participants in the<br />
project were institutions which provide initial and/or continuing teacher training.<br />
The project identified teachers' competences and the corresponding training needs,<br />
both current and desired, which was the baseline for developing a first pilot course<br />
at a national level in teacher competences, with different designs adapted to each<br />
participating country.<br />
Drawing from the results and best practices of that experience, the consortium<br />
elaborated and conducted an international Comenius course, based on a common<br />
design, with teachers from all the partnership's countries, in order to help promote a<br />
European education dimension by describing the educational system and sharing<br />
situations and experiences regarding multiculturalism and inclusion in the classrooms.<br />
It has also produced a matrix of twenty four indicators on teacher<br />
competencies adapted to all participating countries/regions. This instrument has<br />
been an important asset of the project, since it has influenced many institutions at the<br />
time to design local teacher training plans.<br />
Teacher materials are available on CD and on the web site, and numerous<br />
publications resulted from the project. After the end of the project, COPE has<br />
implemented Comenius-Grundtvig teacher training courses to take place in different<br />
countries up until 2013.<br />
Every partner institution has developed a series of actions, some still taking place, in<br />
order to transfer the results and outcomes of the project among students to be<br />
teachers, in-service teachers and teacher trainers and academic staff. And<br />
therefore because of the wide amount of connections with teachers at schools and<br />
universities, headmasters and policy/decision makers have made it possible for the<br />
COPE information to spread widely to a very large number of people and different<br />
departments involved in education.<br />
Duration:<br />
2008-2010<br />
Webpage:<br />
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/projects/public_parts/documents/comenius/com_mp_14<br />
1800_cope.pdf<br />
Thematic Field: Teaching professions<br />
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