Teacher and trainer training

Etf — European Training Foundation

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Report: 3rd workshop on curriculum innovation, October 1998, Budapest
Education policy
Central and Eastern Europe

Sujets

• Continuing education
• Education policy
• Education reform
• Teacher education
• Education
• Vocational education
• Eastern Europe

Informations

• Publié par: ETF-EUROPEAN-TRAINING-FOUNDATION
• Nombre de lectures: 49
• EAN13: 929157225
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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3rd workshop on
curriculum innovation
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Teacher and Trainer Training
October 1998, Budapest
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European Training Foundation u
European Training Foundation
Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo, 65,1-10133 Torino
Tel: (39) OU 630 22 22/Fax: (39) OU 630 22 00/email: [e-mail]
Web: htty-//www.etf.ea.int
The European Training Foundation is an agency of the European Union
which works in the field of vocational education and training in Central
and Eastern Europe, the New Independent States, Mongolia and the
Mediterranean partner countries and territories. The Foundation also
provides technical assistance to the European Commission for the
Tempus Programme. 3rd workshop on
curriculum innovation
Teacher and Trainer Training
October 1998, Budapest
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Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1999
ISBN 92-9157-225-X
© European Communities, 1999
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
Printed in Italy Report: Teacher and Trainer Training
FOREWORD
Developments in employment and work have triggered efforts in the EU Member States to
concentrate on the most important agents of change in education and training, namely teachers and
trainers. These have focused on content and methods, as well as on institutional aspects such as
opening up schools to the surrounding environment and the reorganisation of teacher training
institutions.
In line with these efforts, the European Training Foundation organised a three day workshop on
"Changing Roles of Teachers and Trainers - Changing Identities of Schools and Vocational
Institutions", which took place in Budapest from 14 to 16 October 1998.
The two Foundation workshops on curriculum innovation, which were held in 1996 (Turin) and
1997 (Bled/Slovenia), stressed the importance of redesigning the training of teachers and trainers as
a prerequisite for the implementation of modern curricula. Three points were particularly
emphasised:
■ school organisation: changing the organisational style in the direction of teamwork and the
creation of a learning organisation;
■ role of teachers: the teacher as facilitator, and problem orientation as the key didactic principle
applied to make students the key actors in the learning process; and
■ environment: the school as the focal point in a local/regional network of learning.
In addition to this workshop, the Foundation has undertaken two further initiatives on teacher and
trainer training. A review on the needs and achievements of vocational teacher/trainer training and
the obstacles it faces in the partner countries has been carried out. First results will be given in this
report. The full text of the review can be obtained directly from the Information and Publications
Department of the European Training Foundation. Based on the outcome of the workshop and the
review, a pilot project entitled "Reshaping the focus and structure of vocational teacher and trainer
training" in Latvia and Lithuania has just started. The programme will run for three years (1999-
2001) and is organised as a donor cooperation project involving Denmark and Finland. The aim of
the project is to increase the relevance and attractiveness of vocational education and training in the
associated countries of Central and Eastern Europe, in view of their future accession to the EU. The
ambition is to develop a number of successful sub-projects on different aspects of teacher/trainer
training. The experiences and results of the project will then be made available for wider
dissemination in and outside the participating countries. Transnational cooperation between
various vocational education and training actors from the countries involved will be strongly
supported. Communication channels will be established to allow for expanded information flows
about teacher/trainer training between Central/Eastern and Western Europe.
CEDEFOP and the Foundation have examined the feasibility of a common activity in the field of
teacher training. CEDEFOP is setting up an EU network "Training for Trainers" (TTnet) which aims
to encourage transnational cooperation between vocational training institutes providing training for
trainers within the European Union and to promote the transfer of innovative practices. The
Foundation is going to launch a TTT-network for countries participating in the pilot project and to
integrate it into the CEDEFOP network. 3rd Workshop on Curriculum Innovation
Thirty-seven participants, representing twelve partner countries and seven Member States, attended
the workshop. The speakers, who presented an outline of their papers in the plenary sessions, were
invited to submit the full text, which can be found on our internet web site on
http://www.etf.eu.int. The papers, when taken together, form an excellent framework for
innovation which, we hope, will be used both as inspiration and guidance for the reform of teacher
and trainer training. Report: Teacher and Trainer Training
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD iii
INTRODUCTORY PAPERS 1
For a modern organisation of training institutions and a corresponding
professionalism of teachers and trainers - Bernhard Buck 1
Teacher and trainer training in the partner countries - first results of a
cross-country review - Søren P. Nielsen 11
THE WORKSHOP
Summary 2
Part I: Changing Identities of Schools/Vocational Institutions 25
New linkages between vocational education and training establishments
and their local/regional environments (shortened version) -
Johanna Lasonen and Pekka Kämäräinen 25
Management in education: the implementation of change - Jeanny Prat 33
Entrepreneurship in education and training - John Konrad 41
Part II: Changing Roles of Teachers and Trainers 49
The teacher as facilitator of the learning process (shortened version) -
Dainuvîte Blûma 4
The teacher as team-worker within the vocational institution -
Jette Beck Harrebye 57
The teacher as networker across school boundaries (shortened version) -
Rimantas Laupackas, Kæstutis Pukelis and Adela Rogojinaru 65
Part III: Development of an Innovative Teacher/Trainer Training
Strategy 73
Relevance of occupational subject areas for teacher training
(shortened version) - Gerald Heidegger
The image of teacher training in a lifelong learning process - Eva Tôt 8
The vocational teacher training institution as a learning organisation
(shortened version) - Jittie Brandsma 93rd Workshop on Curriculum Innovation
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 103
THE HUNGARIAN DAY (only on Internet)
Expectations and methods of staff development - Lajos Varga
The staff development of technical teacher training faculties -
Agnes Toth
The development of staff participation in teacher-engineer
training - Tamas Szekeres / Zsuzsanna Vásárhelyi Report: Teacher and Trainer Traming
INTRODUCTORY PAPERS
For a modern organisation of
training institutions and a corresponding
professionalism of teachers and trainers
Bernhard Buck
As a result of the process of transformation, and also as an effect of developments in what is required
of vocational education and training in Europe as a whole, the demands made of teachers and
trainers in the partner countries have drastically changed. Their task has become more complex,
calling for greater self-confidence, dialogue abilities and creative capabilities in their work. There
has, likewise, been a change in the expectations of teachers and trainers as regards their day-to-day
activity. On the one hand, the responsible shaping of their professional work is, increasingly, a
function of the way they see themselves; on the other hand, teachers and trainers perceive the
greater demands made of them as an imposition. In the absence of any support, there has been no
incentive for them to participate in the changes and they have seen their social and occupational
status eroded by a steady decline in their salaries and by inadequate funding for the education and
training sector. These excessive structural demands may be one of the factors undermining the
validity of the new requirements.
Admittedly, there is a greater awareness, at training policy level, of the need to change the
perception and profile of the profession. In reality, however, this has not resulted in greater efforts
being made to increase and improve the financial, social and organisational framework within
which teachers and trainers operate.
1 Challenges to be met by the vocational education
and training system
The change in the professional profile of teachers and trainers is a direct result of the new role of the
education and training sector and of the training facilities available. These are designed to ensure
that vocational and continuing education takes into account changed, and changing, socio-economic
circumstances as well as fulfilling the legitimate expectations of the individual.
The principal obje