Teachers Train Other Teachers
Slovenia , 1995 to Ongoing
Compendium: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Background
Seminars are promoted, organised and carried out (face-to-face, online and offline) by the National Education Institute but mostly by private companies because they are more interested in organising seminars. Experts and research groups covering various subjects and fields prepare and upgrade seminar content (programme, materials). This year the project will be upgraded again to aim at e-competence for teachers in almost every subject and fields. Hence, teachers will be even more interested in achieving the upgraded standard.
The motivation of the initiative
Generally improving use of ICT in teaching and doing this in an innovative manner.
Participants
Schools and companies.
Aims and targets
Objectives of the initiative
To support teachers in innovative use of ICT in classrooms.
Target group
Teachers and other experts in schools.
Methods applied to reach the objective (technological and pedagogical)
Teachers to teachers from (new) practice to practice.
Strategy and actions
Level of implementation
National.
Implementation
The Ministry of Education and Sport supports the project (finance, promotion and recommendation to schools). A seminar is held for teachers, most often arranged by a private company after a public tendering process. All teachers, schools and the Ministry have one contact point which improves efficiency in organisation and implementation. The seminars are prepared by a range of experts on the subject.
Monitoring and evaluation
Funding/Cost effectiveness
Budget
About €1 300 000 a year (there are some 25 000 teachers in Slovenia
Sustainability/Transferability
Outcomes/impacts
Achievements
Specific results
- The seminar’s content is updated once a year.
- At least 6 000 teachers (out of 25 000) are trained every year.
Success factors
Lessons learnt (most important lessons from the initiative)
Real changes in an educational system should be done by taking the classrooms as the basis rather than imposing top-down initiatives and rules from the Ministry.
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