The project stems from the need to investigate and coordinate the roles and competences of teachers in Europe (as mentioned in the Lisbon guidelines), at the levels of both initial and in-service teacher training. The participants in the project are institutions which provide initial and/or continuing teacher training. All of them play important roles in their countries/regions as the educators of future teachers or the innovators of in-service training and are aware of the necessity to adapt the teaching practice to the requirements of modern diversified society and to invent a way of helping teachers to “cope” in the modern classroom.

The partners are planning to identify both the existing and the needed competences of teachers with the aid of a research carried out in their countries. The collected data will then serve as a foundation for developing a pilot course in key teacher competences (different language versions) taking into account multicultural classrooms and diversity in Europe, to be run and tested in the institutions involved. The pilot course and its direct applicability to teaching practice will be systematically evaluated in its different phases, by the learners (via self-reflection on their performance of tasks) as well as the trainers and potential observers, to ensure development and improvement of the course. Drawing from that experience, the partners will then elaborate the second version of the course to be run again, at which stage other interested teacher training institutions can get involved for the sake of disseminating and promoting the results. An extension of the project is envisaged in order to develop Comenius courses based on the results of the project and to plan mobility for the target groups.

Different materials will be produced for the diffusion of the project, such as handbooks, booklets, and electronic learning/communication environment (which will also be used by both the project partners and the pilot course participants throughout the 2-year lifetime of the project).

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