Effective Use of the EPOSTL by Student Teachers of..
Effective Use of the EPOSTL by Student Teachers of English
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
In Europe there is a special effort to improve the efficiency of education and training sysems. The European Commission states that "Education and training systems need to be modernised and be more flexible in how they operate in order to provide the skills for future growth and to increase their responsiveness to labour market needs". From this perspective teacher education plays a significant role in terms of increasing their professional competence and also to provide them with personal experience on how to develop learners' metacognitive learning strategies as successful learners.
The “EPOSTL” stands for the material called “European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages”, which promotes transparency as a standard tool recognised across Europe. It has been designed as a self assessment tool for students in Foreign Language Teaching programmes. It can be used as a standard self assessment tool by student teachers of foreign languages to analyse and reflect on their knowledge and skills needed to teach language. It helps them to monitor and reflect on their experiences, performance and progress during the whole course of teacher education on a purposeful material based on European standards. This project will gather foreign language teaching academics and student teachers from different institutions in Europe in order to provide a basis to share ideas and experiences on how the “EPOSL” can be used more effectively.
The target groups of the project are; 1) academics who train foreign language teachers, 2) student teachers at foreign language teaching departments. The project will last two years. In the first year’s meeting individual and institutional experiences will be discussed, and implementations in each partner country until the next meeting will be designed. In the second year’s meeting experiences based on the implementations will be shared, obstacles and discrepencies will be discussed and a final report will be prepared as the product of the project.
The main purpose of the project is to support the dissemination of the EPOSTL as a transparent tool which helps ensure that skills and qualifications of language teachers can be more easily recognised within and across national borders.
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