Professional capacity dealing with diversity

NAOS intends to organize activities in five areas of teachers’ professional development – language instruction, didactics, teaching materials and methods, social psychology and parental involvement. The idea is to collect and exchange information from the participating countries on effective pre-service teacher training as well as in-service professional development activities.

The following activities are foreseen during the project:

• Ten study visits reports of twenty schools in all our partner countries on the five aspects of professional capacity.
• Learning structures and exchange of educational practitioners among these twenty schools.
• Review of existing in-service modules and other activities in primary as well as secondary education (collected in and open access Handbook that is available online).
• Reviews of existing curricula in the five areas of expertise in pre-service programs for primary as well as secondary education (collected in an open access Handbook that is available online).
• Three case studies implemented in three countries outside our partner countries for testing, learning and dissemination.
• Increase of professional capital in this area by stimulating school co-operation and ideas sharing, especially among schools with similar populations of immigrant students. Provide for formalised networks of schools to allow school professionals to learn from each other.