Teacher Training Center I asi

1. Teacher Training Center Iasi Visiting card Octav Botez Street, No. 2A, 700116 Telephone: +40.232.210424 Fax: +40.232.267731 www.ccdis.ro ccdiasi@gmail.com

2. We have a purpose: • To become a model in which the quality of the offered programs can make the difference. Because we care! • The purpose will be achieved by proving that we are: • a professional, responsible, supportive, fair provider ; • a strong, reliable, advanced partner ; • a resource institution that can be consulted in training policy elaboration; • a promoter of social responsibility; • a catalyst in changing the mentality …..because change is part of the institution’s DNA!

3. Teacher Training Center IassyModel: Spiru Haret ( 1851, Iassy - 1912, Bucharest), Romanian mathematician, astronomer, teacher, reformerof Romanian education system, minister (Minister of Religion and Public Education), academician.Since 1879 is known as “man of school”, being inspector and politician, , working for school and education.. He was the greatest reformerof 19thcentury Romanian school . aa

4. Organizational Culture Motto: The education purpose is the flame transfer (V. Ghica) Values:professionalism, communication, creativity and innovation, teamwork, efficiency, receptivity to teacher training needs, development and diversification of training programs. Symbols: logo of Teacher Training Center Iassy, logo of „Spiru Haret” Publishing House, magazine, motto, web page, book of honor, trophy.

5. Organizational Culture Rituals and ceremonies: • Awarding the name of „Spiru Haret” to Teacher Training Center Iasi • „Trail of training” • „Training offer show room” • „Teacher’s Day” • „ Iasi School Days ” • „Camerata” Choir Recital • Inauguration, book launch/publications

6. Organizational Culture Short history • Teacher Training Center Iasi, as we know it today , was set up on 31stMay 1971, initially established in Iasi, Nicolae Bălcescu Street, No. 26. • At the end of 1983, Teacher Training Center Iasi moves to the new headquarters , in Octav Botez Street, No. 2A, where is at present. • Abolished in October 1986, Teacher Training Center Iasiwas restored by Ministry of Education on 20thMarch 1990.

7. Organizational Culture Mission: • Innovationand movement for reform promoting , assuring the climate of pre-university education teachers ‘professional development

8. Organizational Culture Attributions: • Analyzes training needs, defines the products and services offered • Provides continuous forming program for teachers from pre-university education system • Monitors training quality • Provides necessary resources , expertise and consultancy in continuous education of teachers and educational managers • Organizes and runs scientific ,cultural, artistic activities and programs • Edits and distributes books and publications • It is a methodological center for librarians from pre-university education system

9. Internal Analysis Functional Organizational Structure Leadership: director, board Resource, information, documentation, consulting service: programs department (methodologist teachers), library, computerization, publishing house Financial Administrative Service: accountancy, secretariat – archive, technical and maintenance department

10. Internal Analysis Rooms • Teacher Training Center Iassy has its own building with three training rooms ( 20 seats each), an amphitheatre ( 90 seats, for cultural and artistic activities), a computer lab (equipped with necessary logistics for pre-university teacher training in IT), a library , book deposit • Paşcani branch has 2 training rooms (30 seats, each), a mini-library and the necessary equipment for activities development • 31 documentation and information centers (CDI)

11. Internal Analysis Equipment: • 20 computers + 1 server (AeL) • 2 interactive boards • 4 video projectors • 2 DVD players • 13 printers • 2 digital cameras • 1 video camera • 2 laptops • 5 scanners • 2 copy machines • 1 plasma+ media box

12. Activity domains and results The institution’s activity is developed on two separate coordinates : • Implementing internal and external environment diagnosis (investigation of training needs, resulted from introduction of new content in current syllabus; needs resulted from school inspections; concrete needs, formulated by potential beneficiaries) • Setting training priorities distinguished by a careful processing of data supplied by needs analysis

13. Internal Analysis Activity domains and results • Continuous forming programs attract over 3500 students every year in domains such as : TIC and AeL, curriculum, educational management , quality assurance, non-formal education, active learning and critical thinking , foreign languages, European culture and civilization, parental education • Between 2007-2010, over 14.000 teachers, auxiliary teaching staff and non-teaching staff attended the training courses • The training offer for school year 2009-2010 consists of 8 programs accredited by CNFP and 61 programs accredited by MECTS

14. Internal Analysis Activity domains and results • By means of project “ Educaţion for information in disadvantaged rural areas”, started in 2003 by the competent Minister , the first seven documentation and information centers, have been set up by own funds and donations • At present , Teacher Training Center Iasi coordinates a number of 31 documentation and information centers (CDI), of which 25 have been set up by budget funds • Teacher Training Center Iasi has its own library with a number of 38.000 volumes

15. Internal Analysis Activity domains and results „Spiru Haret”Publishing House • Turns to account and disseminates the experience and research activities in education of teachers , and collaborators in educational policies, by editing methodological guides, studies, brochures, methodical books, magazines, course support, textbooks • Edits its own magazine, „Univers Didactic”, subtitled “Iassy School Magazine”, which has the purpose to reflect the school reality in the county and offer useful information regarding local, national and European educational policies.

16. Internal Analysis Activity domains and results IT forming domain • Refers to utilization by teachers of MS Office package, of some learning platform (AeL), and data base system ORACLE. • Offers to course participants the possibility to get credits after they pass the local exams or the on-line evaluations: 30 credits for TIC, 25 credits for AeL and 25 credits for Instruction in society of knowledge. From 2007 to 2009, there were 2000 teachers who graduated these courses.

17. Internal Analysis Communication • Teacher Training Center Iasi approaches an efficient communication with all the educational segments in order to identify the forming needs, but also for making public and advertise the offers of forming needs • The communication media are: mass-media, site, e-mail, posters, flyers, leaflets, handouts, educational events with impact for population (exhibitions, expositions, trade fairs, festivals), publications (magazines, newsletter etc.)

18. Development Strategy Vision • Within Romanian integration in European Union standards, Teacher Training Center Iasi wants to: • Become the guaranty of teachers’ professional development quality, having an important role for balancing the learning system and ensure an internal and external partnership • Create the proper environment of exchanging ideas, information and documentations, from perspective of an open, flexible and efficient education • According with Quality Law, the Teacher Training Center Iasi is identified through its self evaluation capacity, development and promotion of organizational culture, relationship with cultural, social and economic community environment

19. Development Strategy The strategic objectives are realized for both Directions of Action suggested for medium term (2010-2013), and for Annual Operational Plan for implementing the strategy: • Optimizing the institutional management • Flexible and diversified offers for continuous forming • Accreditation of new continuous forming programs • Two new Teacher Training Center subsidiaries • Partnership development within the community • Attract extra budgets funds and enhance the material resources • Develop European collaboration and insertion programs

20. Development Strategy Direction for actions: • Institutional development • Continuous forming of pre-university employees • Information, documentation, consultancy • Scientific, methodic, and cultural activities • Editing and publications and books’ publishing • External partnership • Educational marketing, advertising / dissemination • Organization employees professional development

21. Development StrategyOperational planning Organizational Development • Optimizing the management of the organization • Create the Data base for actual creators and potential creators • Evaluation of actual employees and auxiliary employees • Ensure the necessary spaces for activities in Teacher Training Center and territory

22. Development StrategyOperational planning Continuous training • Create the Data base regarding Programs and Expertise Services field, consultancy request and offer • Needs Analysis project for urban and rural schools within Iassy county area • Forming needs identification for the employees based on results obtained thru inspections made by Iassy School Inspection Institute • Development of programs of continuous forming in line with European and national educational politics and function of identified needs • Development and accreditation of new programs of forming and development of employees competencies in order to use TIC and AeL

23. Development StrategyOperational planning Information, documentation, consultancy • Organization of school books educational displays, permanent exhibitions, presentations and book launches / specialty dissertations. • Selection and dissemination of info regarding with adults’ forming • Communication modern systems utilization • Educational brochures and book offer selection • Creation of auxiliary didactics • Development and efficient structuring of Information and documentation centers • Facilitating of documentary resources use by users thru info and educational communication techniques • Ensure consultancy regarding projects creation with external financing funds • Creation of monograph of Teacher Training Center Iassy

24. Development StrategyOperational planning Methodic, Sciences and Cultural Activities • Publishing and promoting the monograph of Teacher Training Center Iasi • Seminars, Scientific Sessions, Conferences, Debates, Workshops, etc. • Organizing “Seminar of Forming Offers” • Experimental Courses/Demonstrations • Exhibitions – art, Teachers and students permanent exhibitions • Recitals and concerts: music, poetry • Festivities and celebrations for cultural and science personalities, retired teachers, etc. • “Iasi School Days”/ “Teacher Training Center Iasi” celebrations

25. Development StrategyOperational planning Edit/Books circulation process/Publications • Univers Didactic magazine and other publications edit, at the request of teachers and schools • Assure techno editing and graphics services, multiplications for school magazines, leaflets, brochures, flyers, grade and Ph D dissertations • “Spiru Haret” publication advertising page insert within Catalogul editurilor ieşene magazine • Participation at Romanian Book International Fair organized by "Gh. Asachi“ Library Iasi • Promotion and circulation of “Spiru Haret” publications

26. Development StrategyExternal partnership Finished or On going Projects • 2002-2004 Grundtvig 2 – 02-G2-22-IS-ES Partnership for learning – Importance of new technologies within disadvantaged rural areas • 2004-2006 - Grundtvig 2 – 05-G2-66-IS-RO-RC Partnership for learning – Art promotion for adults within rural areas • 2006 – 2008 – Erasmus - 2854-IC-6-2001-1-BE ERASMUS-EUC-1 - IP Einstein Europe Innovative Science Teachers Education by Introducing Nowadays Themes • 2007 - 2009 - Grundtvig 1 - 230305-CP-1-2006-1-RO-GRUNDTVIG-G11 - Face It

27. Development StrategyExternal partnership Finished or On going Projects • 2007-2009 - Leonardo da Vinci - VETPRO Mobility - LLP-LdV/VETPRO/2007/RO/049 - Eurostandards in continuous teacher training • 2007-2009 – Comenius - 134214-LLP-1-2007-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMP - Bridging InsulaEuropae • 2007-2009 – Comenius - 134246- LLP-1-2007-IT – COMENIUS – CMP - Euclides • 2009- 2011 – Comenius Regio - COM-09-PP-07-IS-IT - Youth Educational Systems

28. Development StrategyExternal partnership Approved projects given to POS DRU, in partnership with other Institutions • 2009 – 2013 – European Social Fund – Human Resources Operational Program – Partnership with Azione Lavoro Veneto - Italia • 2009- 2013 - European Social Fond – Human Resources Operational Program – Just a click distance to modern and efficient education, in partnership with ISJ Iassy, ISJ Tulcea and Teacher Training Center Tulcea

29. Development StrategyExternal partnership Approved POS DRU projects, in partnership with other Institutions • 2009 - 2013 - European Social Fund –Inter-discipline organization of learning offers for key competences structuring of primary school (level I-IV)- “blended learning” type program for primary school teachers – Education, Research, Youth and Sport Minister Project • 2009 -2013 - European Social Fund –Opportunities for a quality teacher career thru a national continuous forming programs for mathematics pre university teachers.

30. Development StrategyExternal partnership European financed projects, in partnership with other European Institution • Sub divisional Program GRUNDTVIG – Partnerships for learning - Education for adaptation policies and practices to climate change in European costal areas • Sub divisional Program GRUNDTVIG – Multitask Projects - Didactic and innovative approaches for communication abilities - DIACA • Sub divisional Program LEONARDO DA VINCI – Partnerships Leonardo da Vinci - Vocational education of teachers working with handicapped children • Sub divisional Program LEONARDO DA VINCI - VETPRO EFECTS Project – European Education – quality, transfer, change

31. Development Strategy Educational Marketing • Products/services promo thru programs of continuous structuring, library, publishing house • National and local mass-media relationship development thru: press conferences, interviews, communications, etc. • “Forming Caravan” – dispatching Teacher Training Center team in the territory in order to inform and present the educational offer • Spreading the continuous forming program offer in the territory

32. Development Strategy Educational Marketing • Participation of Teacher Training Center team to meetings / conventions / reunions of teachers • Building the Publicity materials in order to share the experience of the organization • Assure information change with all Teacher Training Center from Romania within priority domains

33. Development Strategy Organization employees professional development • Participation of Metodist Teachers to Specialization Courses organized by M.E.C.T.S., N.G.O’s, universities, etc. • Application/participation to European Projects for ongoing learning during whole life (Grundtvig, Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci etc.) • Realization of studies, researches, based on identified needs • Understanding of new strategies and techniques within forming process • Consulting bibliography and sites which ensure continuos development and forming.

34. CCD Iasi is different because: • We are transparent and opened! • We encourage the creative and innovative potential! • We stimulate the active participation of all ‘educational actors’! • We encourage diversity and active intercultural and citizenship! • We trust you and you trust us!