Practices

Thematic Field: Teaching professions
Developing "Start-up Support" for new teachers in their first year of
practice
Comenius Regio Partnership
Institutions involved:
Partner Regio 1
Coordinator organisation: Staatliches Schulamt Gießen/Vogelsberg (HESSE Education
Partner organisations:
DE - Germany
Authority, Giessen-Vogelsberg)
Ricarda-Huch-Schule, Gießen
Studienseminar GHRF Gießen
Partner Regio 2
Coordinator organisation: Delegacion Provincial de Education de Granada, Spain
Partner organisations: Centro de Profesorado de Montril
ES - Spain IES Alpujarra
Key words: Teacher Career, Teacher competences
Description:
Regardless of the specific situation of the individual school (rural school or city school,
focus school or elite high school, etc.) the introduction to the practice of the teaching
profession is a challenge; the question of career companion for teachers was
identified by the partners as an issue of common interest and considerable importance
for a successful career start.
Therefore the project partners agreed to develop and test a manual (pilot version)
of common benefit to young teachers in both partner regions, which enables them to
find better access to their first year of teaching practice, to exchange existing good
practice in partner regions and to highlight best practice examples; the project will
also carry on a survey/questionnaire for teachers in their first year of practice about
their experiences and expectations and to evaluate the feasibility of the manual, to
improve it and to disseminate it in both regions.
The manual, in paper and digital version, will be available in the website for every
school in both regions and it is intended to offer a broad variety of “Start-up
support” for new teachers and it will help new teachers to improve the process of first
orientation at schools; furthermore it will also offer the possibility to identify existing
communication structures in individual institutions and between them. This may
prepare the basis of transparency and systematic information structures.
Awards:
It was awarded as Project of the Month 2012 by the German National Agency
Duration:
2011-2013
Webpage:
http://comenius-regio-giessen-granada.com/
http://www.kmk-pad.org/praxis/pdm/pdm-10-2012.html#c14536
http://comenius-regio-giessen-granada.com/?p=1770
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2011-1-DE3-
COM13-18858
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