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Professional Development Opportunities

Rute Baptista

Central Support Service22nd September 2016

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Professional developmentmust move from somethingthat we do to educators to a culture of continuouslearning cycles and problemsolving that leads to betteropportunities for theirstudents.

Katie Martin, PhDDirector of Professional Learning, IEE

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Overview

Online Opportunities

Best practice

Face to face opportunities

Best practice

• NSS

• Ambassadors

• eTwinning Projects

• PDW and other Seminars

• FCLab courses

• Groups

• Self teaching material

• Learning Events

• Ambassadors Course

• Moderators Course

• Online Seminars

Online training

Online Professional Development

Peer LearningFace to face training

Online opportunities

• NSS

• Ambassadors



• FCLab courses

• Groups


• Learning Events



• Online Seminars

Online training



Online events

• Massive growth of online events

• Audience

• Less cost

Online events

• Busy schedules

• No travel

• Big range of choice of events and presenters

• Speed of information

• Internet connection

LEARNING EVENTS

https://learninglab.etwinning.net/

Event Main features Theme Main target group

Participants

LearningEvents

short intensive online eventson a number of themes. Theyare led by an expert andinclude active work anddiscussion among teachers.

Distinct theme related to pedagogical aspects in particular

All eTwinners

May be secified according to theme

Max of participants200 to be agreedwith expert



Event Language Duration Platform Where to apply Who?

Learning Events

Widely spokenEuropean Language(EN,FR, ES, DE) oragreed with theCountries thatpromote it

10 to 15 days


https://live.etwinning.net/professionaldevelopment

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LEARNING EVENTS




Event Main features Theme Main target group

Participants

OnlineSeminars

Live communication sessionswhere you have the chance to learn, talk and discuss aboutseveral themes.

Distinct themerelated to pedagogical andeTwinning aspects in general

All eTwinners Number Max ofparticipants 200

ONLINE SEMINARS

Language Duration Platform Where to apply Who

Online Seminars

Widely spoken European Language (EN,FR, ES, DE)

1 to 2h https://live.etwinning.net/professionaldevelopment


CSS

ONLINE SEMINARS



Main features Theme Main target group Participants Event

Online

Courses

Long Course aimed at

addressing the needs of

the eTwinning community

in the area of online

moderation, teaching and

learning and

Ambassadors at national

and European level.

Ambassadors

Make

eTwinning Live

Ambassadors

All eTwinners

Number Max of

participants 200

Online

Courses

ONLINE COURSES

Language

Duration Platform Where to apply Who

Online

CoursesEN 4 months

http://moodle.etwinning.net/

login/index.phpSpecific form CSS

ONLINE COURSES

http://moodle.etwinning.net/login/index.php

ONLINE TRANING: ONLINE COURSES

https://groups.etwinning.net/

GROUPS

ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: GROUPS

https://stm.etwinning.net/

SELF TEACHING MATERIALS

SELF TEACHING MATERIALS

Poland

Anna Pławecka

BENEFITS OF

by

Anna Pławecka

Poland

BEGINNINGS

late 1990s

EARLY 2000s

from

to

THE BEGINNING

of

How to take part in eTwinning programme?

NEW METHODS

OF EDUCATING

CALL – own programme for

schools published on a special

website service for teachers

ONLINE COURSES

AUTHOR

AND TRAINER

About 50 subjects – one tool/subject at a time…

1-week courses

A course for more advanced etwinners

How to create a good project?

II High School in Jaworzno

development

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Physics - internationally

eTwinning as a way of solving

the problem of professional burnout

HELP & SUPPORT

POLISH

eTwinning AMBASSADORS

CHANCES FOR STUDENTS

Encouraging FLL

PLANS FOR

THE FUTURE

•start next eTwinning projects

•write new online courses

•introduce a new complementary subject

into the II High School in Jaworzno

curriculum called “ICT in media”

•create media/incorporate new tools/skills into the process of

teaching and learning

• and…

YOUTH IS THE

STATE OF MIND

THANK YOU!

Anna Pławecka

[email protected]

II Liceum Ogólnokształcące

(Second High School) in Jaworzno

Poland

eTwinning online courses trainer

mailto:[email protected]

Face to face opportunities

• NSS

• Ambassadors



• FCLab courses

• Groups


• Learning Events



• Online Seminars

Online training



FACE TO FACE TRAINING: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

Professional Development Workshops

FACE TO FACE TRAINING: ETWINNING SEMINARS

eTwinning Seminars

FACE TO FACE TRAINING

PEER LEARNING

• Developing their Projects and learning with their peers

• Receving ambassadors support, either in a face to face situation or by email.

• Receving NSS support, either in a face to face situation or by email or other means.

Professional Development in my school

Paola Di Renzo

Italian Headmaster

Istituto Comprensivo 3 Chieti (Italy)

Since the first year of eTwinning in my schoolI worked to spread the voice about theplatform among the teachers of my school,organizing teachers meeting in which myschool’s eTwinners talked about theirprojects, the activities, the processes, theresults, the competences involved and thebenefits both for students and for teachers.

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Since 2012 we have had an eTwinningAmbassador in our school.I planned lots of Professional Developmentactions with her so that the teachers of myschool could benefit form her experiencein eTwinning and could learn how to usethe platform, how to include ICT inteaching and learning and how to innovatetheir teaching methods.

eTwinning, in fact, gives lots of opportunities to teachers as it offers the opportunity to:-better their ICT skills-reach a better level of language competences-work collaborating (the more teachers are, the better…)-learn new teaching methods-innovate teaching-learn how to motivate students

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To innovate teaching in my school I totallysupported my school Ambassador:-allowing her to take part in eTwinningConferences in presence, Webinar,Seminars, PDW (Professional DevelopmentWorkshop), online courses so that shecould train her colleagues-supporting her in the creation ofeTwinning Groups

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According to our plan she created TWO GROUPS

in the eTwinning platform:

1) COURSE ABOUT CLIL (CONTENT

LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING) for our

school teachers and other teachers from Chieti. In

this group there were 24 teachers working in the

platform.

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2) EXPERIMENTATION about the use of the eTwinning platform to innovate teaching and to open our students mind to Europe. 14 teachers worked in the group.

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I also supported and promoted the organization of aLearning Event by the Ambassador of my school,Marina Screpanti. The LE ran from May 30th to June10th.The Learning Event “How partnership and ICTinnovate Primary School teaching and learning” had118 teachers involved in the platform specificallyplanned by the Ambassador.We promoted the Groups and the Learning Eventwith mails sent to all my Institute teachers explainingthe programme of the Learning Event and thank tothe Social of my school.

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We have, in fact, a Social inside our school site. It is opened to all our teachers. Here we promote courses, ideas, projects and also eTwinning.

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OUR SOCIAL

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HERE THE POST THAT PROMOTES THE LEARNING EVENT

Another important occasion the Ambassador and Icreated together with the other teachers eTwinnersof the school is an eTwinning GROUP inside myInstitute.The group organizes eTwinning days, talks abouteTwinning to parents, supports teachers who want tolearn how to use ICT in their teaching.They all are a good team. My task is to incentivatetheir work, giving them opportunities to talk, to showtheir work, to share their competences with thecolleagues creating agood team spirit.

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We also catch all the ProfessionalDevelopment opportunities eTwinningoffers, from the Webinars dedicated tospecific topics to the Learning Events andthe Groups (Creative classroom, Web 2.0tools, eTwinning e la realtà).Many of my teachers, for example, trainedthemselves in Coding thank to eTwinning.

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Then, every May I organize an eTwinning Day to spread the voice about eTwinning, not only among my teachers but also among the

whole Community, other teachers and parents.

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Starting with 1 teacher in 2008, at themoment there are 24 eTwinners in myschool but new ones are going to join theplatform in the next weeks.Now in one project, a team of 16 teachersfrom my school is working together.Strength lies in unity!

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Thank to eTwinning, my teachers have learnt a lot about the use of ICT in theirteaching. They have also learnt that working together is enriching as sharing competences and ideas is one of the best way to learn.The platform

Face-to-Face vs Online

Both essential

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