19_catalonia_ foreign languages teacher training
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Presentation in Study Visit Grup.No. 192 (Barcelona), March 2012TRANSCRIPT
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CONTINUOUS TEACHER TRAINING IN CATALONIA
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- The training is always non-compulsary, with the only exception of some specific programmes:
Training for school management or new teachers,
and the activities are developed outside the teachers’ school timetable
- It has benefits for the teachers concerning their professional career:
Economic promotion, becoming a headteacher, applying for a post in
another school, …….
- A five-year long general plan
- Yearly specific instructions
Main features
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Global figures
• Activities: 8,554
• Granted places: 187,400
• Total number of teachers: 106,126
• Teachers who have attended at least a training activity: 75,386
2010-2011
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Indicators
• Percentage of particpation: 78.1%
• Percentage of teachers with a certficate: 70.6%
• Number of training hours attended per teacher : 48.8
• Average of training hours offered per teacher: 38.1
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Main programmes/topics of CPD
Methodology and resources of the school curriculum
42%
Inclusive school: tutoring, special
needs education, mediation, conflicts
resolution, coeducation...
13%
Foreing languages13%
ICT Information and communication technologies
18%
Health and safety at work9%
School management
5%
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Organization and planning of the training
External17%
Centralized 38%
Decentralized45%
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Area-based training programmes (PFZ)
Territory
Barcelona Comarques Baix LlobregatCatalunya CentralMaresme-Vallès OrientalGirona Vallès Occidental Lleida Tarragona Terres de l’EbreConsorci d’Educació de Barcelona
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Area-based training programmes (PFZ)
- The training activities offered give an answer to the needs stated by the schools and teachers of a specific area.
54%46%
Training adressed to teachers of different schools
Training adressed to teachers of the same school (school’s training plan)
Which aims?
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Continuous teacher Continuous teacher training programmes in training programmes in
foreign languagesforeign languages
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Increase the methodological and linguistic competences of the foreign language teachers (primary and secondary).
Increase the linguistic competences of the teachers of all the other areas.
Train teachers of non-linguistic areas to teach their subject in a foreign language (CLIL / EMILE)
Objectives
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Teachers in a school with a PELE project (Pla Experimental de Llengües Estrangeres)
Teachers in a school with an Autonomy project where foreign languages are involved.
Teachers in a school with a Comenius project Vocational training teachers who teach their subject in a foreign language Teachers involved in the Batxibacc project
The aim is to address the continuous training programmes to schools with a project to make training an important part of
the achievement of the project’s objectives
Priorities
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Main Programmes:
Summer grants: Courses in Catalonia and abroad: France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland.
Contents: Methodolgy/Language/Culture
Number of places offered: 875 (abroad: 275)
Activities within the Plans de Formació de Zona (decentralized training) (PELE 2nd and 3rd year and courses/seminars/workgroups/congresses /,…). 1,500 places
Objective 1: Foreign language teachers
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Specific programmes for infant and primary school teachers including methodological and linguistic contents ( 340 places)
Activities organitzed by other institucions (Teachers’ associations, British / French / German Institutes,……) and approved as continuous training activities.
Activities organized by the ICE (Universities)
Objective 1: Foreign language teachers
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The aim is to train teachers to achieve the B1 and B2 levels
English courses during the school year at the official schools of languages (EOI). (Length of these courses: 130 hours, number of courses: 91 and number of teachers: 2,343)
English and French courses during the summer at the EOI. (Length of these courses: 80 hours, number of courses: 35, number of teachers; 875)
Grants offered in the regular EOI courses in different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Russian (Length of these courses: 130 hours, number of teachers: 390)
Language courses abroad in the summer. (Length of these courses: 3 weeks, 60 hours. Great Britain and France: 230 grants)
Objective 2: Teachers of other subjects
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CLIL/EMILE Training pathwayLevel B2 Linguistic requirement
Initial and compulsory training course during the school year or in the summer (35h)
PELE-1st year
PELE 2nd and 3rd year Putting the project in practice with the students
Courses/Seminars: Plans de Formació de Zona / Exchanging experiences / Contrasting pedagogic materials
10-Week paid-study leaves
Class materials production
Workgroups (Producing new pedagogic materials)
These teachers work as teacher trainers in presentations/PELE training/workshops/---
Objective 3: CLIL / EMILE
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10-week paid leaves
Aims:
40 teachers every year
Different gropus for primary and secondary teachers
- Write CLIL / EMILE materials
- Know more about the CLIL / EMILE methodology
- Linguistic improvement
Groups in the first term (oct / dec.) and the second term (jan / march)
Requirements: - Schools with a CLIL / EMILE project
The produced materials are available on the Department’s website
Objective 3: CLIL / EMILE
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Information of the training activities
The information and the applying procedures of all the training organized by the Departament d’Ensenyament is available on this website:
http://www.xtec.cat/formacio