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Student teachers’ Practices for Democratic Culture (STEP UP-DC): Educating future teachers to develop the democratic culture [1/11/22]

Student teachers’ Practices for Democratic Culture (STEP UP-DC): Educating future teachers to develop the democratic culture [1/11/22]
24.10.2022 - 15.56

Registration

https://forms.gle/r6tEPxZT84tEcqh47

Are you involved in student teachers’ and teachers’ education? Do you work with future teachers and teachers? Are you interested to develop competences and especially competences for democratic culture? Do you want to know about the Reference of Competences for Democratic Culture of Council of Europe? Find out more below:

You are invited to take part in an online seminar (in English language) on 1 November, 18:00-19:30 (time CET) regarding the challenges and benefits of training student teachers and engaging with the development of competences for democratic culture in education and through the curriculum.

The seminar will present the results of the implementation of the STEP UP-DC project (https://www.stepup-dc.eu/) and its free access products (training module, training platform, training materials, certification process) that are available for training teachers and future teachers to apply in schools the development of the competences for democratic culture. At the seminar, your experiences will be matched with our experiences of STEP UP-DC project. 

The organisers will send you details about the You Tube live streaming.

Organisers:

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

University of Thessaly (UoTh)

University of Nicosia (UNIC)

Leeds Beckett University (LBU)

European Wergeland Centre (EWC)

AGORA

About the STEP UP-DC project:

STEP UP-DC (Student teachers’ practice for democratic culture) is an Erasmus+ KA2 co-funded Project Number: [2019-1-EL01-KA203-062449]. The project meets the need for teachers’ training in Democratic pedagogies and the development of democratic ethos by using the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC).

The RFCDC offers a comprehensive conceptual model of the 20 competences (CDC) that individuals require in order to function as democratically and interculturally competent citizens and 138 indicators. These are therefore the competences that need to be targeted by educators in order to empower learners to act as competent and effective democratic citizens. These also help to inform teaching practice and curriculum planning and assessment.

So the main priority tackled in the STEP UP-DC project identifies the significance of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) and particularly of the practicum during the Practice Teaching Programs (PTP) for the development of teachers’ professional knowledge and skills, the formation of their professional perspectives and views on the social role of education is well documented. The project started in 2019 and ends in December 2022.

For more information

https://www.stepup-dc.eu/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069808807337

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