TIPP - T eachers I n P ractice and P rocess

1. TIPP- TeachersInPracticeandProcess EU Project 1342222-DE (with financial support by the European Commission) Program title: “Life-long learning” Contents of this presentation: EU support partner / target groups aims and benefits first results financial framework

2. COMENIUS „ Life long learning“2007-2013 EU support EU Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Cultural Studies, Brussels

3. COMENIUS- program for life - long learning COMENIUS: a program for all school sectors (from pre-school to teacher training) targets: developing an understanding and appreciation for different European cultures Furthering mutual understanding by the exchange and cooperation of schools and training colleges in the participating countries.

4. Comenius –program for life-long learning II Systematics: a)school partnerships support: national agencies, e.g. D / PAD Bonn b)transnational / multilateral projects: support: central by EACEA, Brussels also this TIPP project

5. TIPP: Project Phases preparatory phase (prior to application 03/2007) start of planning: 2005 by general decision of the “Studienseminar” conference (operating since 2001) participating colleagues: Bernd Trenner / Uwe Hilgers (Seminar Gy/Ge) Heiner Flottman / Hans Grygier (Seminar BK)

6. Concrete steps before project begin Preparatory meetings 2006 and 2007 Vilnius, Bielefeld and Vienna Application date: March 30, 2007 (129 applications were filed to Brussels, 36 of these were approved)

7. TIPP-Project Execution of the project 2007-2009 approval mid September 2007 start of project October 1st, 2007 end of project September 30, 2009 interim report September 30, 2008 (submittal date) final report November, 30, 2009 (submittal date)

8. TIPP: Project partners • HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki (Finland) • Vilnius College of Higher Education, Vilnius (Lithuania) • Berufspädagogische Akademie des Bundes in Vienna, dept. of Pädagogische Hochschule, Vienna,(Austria) since 1/10/2007 • University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) • Regionalne Centrum Ksztalcenia J O and Nauczycielskie Kolegium Jezykow Obcych, Opole (Poland) • Studienseminar für Lehrämter an Schulen Bielefeld II (Germany), co-ordinating institution with academic mentoring by Frau Prof. Dr. Beate Wischer, Osnabrück University, external evaluation by Prof. Dr. Herr Dollase and colleagues, Bielefeld University

9. Helsinki Vilnius Co-ordinating institution: Studienseminar Bielefeld II Opole Ostrava Wien TIPP-Partner Institutions

10. TIPP:primary considerations Demands on the teachers Conflict-ridden areas in teacher biographies are mainly to be found •In transition from basic training to job outset •during professionalisation and further studies

11. Deficits: low pupil achievement,problems of negative selection,over and under challenging etc.causes: false attitudes and incorrect treatment of diversity in the classroomsolution: regard diversity as an enrichment; inner differentiation Concrete prreliminary Considerations 1 Central messages that can be demoralizing: •inner differentiation solves numerous problems •teachers could be succeed it they only watched to

12. Specification of well- known contradictions Conflicting targets: ►Individual learning growth vs. learning diversification ►subsumption vs. reconstruction individual cases vs. typification ►coaching vs. selection indiviual well- being selection mandate

13. TIPP: target groups • teachers and students in the transition phase between basic training and career outset • teachers during their first teaching years • those persons involved with teacher training and further training ( lectures at universities and teacher training colleges,mentors)

14. TIPP: anticipated project results • developing teaching concepts • evaluating the modules externally and locally • implementation • use and distribution • further development • renewed testing

15. „Additional benefits“ for the participating institutions target: optimizing teacher training studies • developing new materials on different themes and based on the standards (i.e. for germans) • a catalogue of recommendations for the listed phases of the teaching profession( e.g. classroom management,dealing with heterogeneity) • Instruction on testing methods of self- observation, self-regulation and self- reflection( working with portfolio, videos, etc.) with the aim of professionality the teacher‘s own behavior

16. „Additional benefits“ for the participating institutions II target: optimizing teacher training studies ● offers of further training for teachers at teacher training colleges ● increasing co-operation between schools, universities and teacher training colleges ● synergy effects at teacher training colleges (cooperation within the German institutes for Gy/Ge( gr/com) and vocational college ● internationalizing the work of teacher training colleges

17. TIPP: division of work Framework of contents the themes ( binding for all partner): ►coping with heterogeneity ►classroom management Location-based modules :

18. site specifications I Bielefeld: • developing perception, conflict and communications modules • testing possibilities of classroom diagnosis • Setting up the website Helsinki: • IT support • maintaining the internet platform,TIPP blog

19. site specifications II • Vilnius: • attending to individual needs in • heterogeneous groups at pre-school and • primary school by using a variety of methods • ( e.g. video) • Wien: • - integrating disabled pupils into the • classroom

20. site specifications III Opole: -working with portfolios and using these in foreign language teaching Ostrava: -developing text modules for use in foreign language teaching, here specifically for the German language

21. first results- stress 1. I percieve my professional demands as: • very high 22 47,8 • High 24 52,2 • Total 46 100,0 Differences between teachers and trainee teachers are significant here: I perceive my professional demands as: very high high total • Trainees 41,9% 58,1% 100,0% • Teachers 60,0% 40,0% 100,0%

22. first results- complexity 2. I perceive the complexity of the profession as: very high 26 59,1 high 18 40,9 total 44 100,0 Classification: I perceive the complexity of the profession as (cross-classified table) : very high high total • Trainee 44,8% 55,2% 100,0% • teachers 86,7% 13,3% 100,0%

23. results of heterogeneitya-German • A high expectation of a homogeneous study group ( Ger) prevents positive thinking whe coping with heterogeneity ( variety vs. Conformity) requirement: any change of attitude, has to take place in teh teachers‘ heads

24. results of heterogeneity b-German • Interviews have shown, however, that there is a high discrepancy between these demands and reality in school, and that the young teachers are hard set to copy with the problems of heterogeneity.They are mainly involved in handling the possibly more basic classroom problems (discipline, teaching methods, subject matter, differing age- group particularities, general organisation and administration etc.) • In this sense teaching requires differentiated diagnosis as well as differentiated teaching methods.

25. results of heterogeneity I c • In Lithuania, Poland and the Czeck Republic the term „ heterogeneity“ was widely unknown at the time of tjhe census in the summer 2008.WE had to often use synonyma. • e.g. .

26. Results of heterogeneity I d -P What does the term „h.“ signify fo you?

27. results of heterogeneity 1 e • Polish survey of heterogeneity 2008

28. Ergebnisse Heterogenität 2008 Opole/Poland survey on heterogeneity 2008

29. Website www.teachers-ipp.eu

30. TIPP:financial framework application sum € 295.798,00 approved sum(Brussels): € 293.798,00 € effected payments: € 219.893,00 € Thus Brussels has paid 74,84 % of the application sum Capital resources of the participating institutions, total: 25,16 % =73 905,00 € Respectively: resources in the form of working hours contributed by the participating colleagues. There are no funds from respective budget funds or sponsors.

31. Thank – you for your kind attention! • Looking forward to an interesting and interested co-operation with you! • You are invited to Bielefeld, but I am happy I can stay here in Vilnius at the moment! • Thank you very much!And good luck to all teachers!