This platform, the world's biggest teachers' network, offers staff (teachers, head teachers, librarians, etc.) and pupils opportunities to communicate, collaborate and work on projects together. Develop a self-assessment tool on digital capacity (SELFIE) so that schools in the EU can, on a voluntary basis and using a set of common criteria, evaluate their digital capacity and develop and improve the way they use technologies for digital age learning. Further support Member States in providing high quality early childhood education and care and step up efforts to help them learn from each other and identify what works best. Offer policy guidance on the careers and professional development of teachers and school leaders by reinforcing peer le ...[+++]arning under Education and Training 2020 through a series of expert seminars and linking it to the European sectoral social dialogue in education; Develop online communities and resources for school professionals, including new eTwinning opportunities for student teachers, online networks for early career teachers and their mentors, online courses (including Massive Open Online Courses), exchange of best practice among providers of Initial Teacher Education and a Digital Competence Framework to support teachers' self-assessment and development; Building on existing cooperation, including on skills strategies and school resources, set up a demand driven technical support arrangement in cooperation with the OECD to help Member States who voluntarily seek assistance, to design and implement major school education reforms.

That is every teacher, classroom monitor, volunteer parent supervising the cafeteria at lunch, sports coach and Sunday school teacher.

Mr. Long: As long as you are on the final statement, a motivational speaker came to our school one time and he said, ``I sometimes think that little kids are the smartest people in the world'.

It is spoken in many parts of the world and taught in many schools in the EU — but it is much more widely known in southern and western Europe than in the north or east of the continent.

That's been the experience internationally (1640) The Chair: Thank you.

In virtually all confederations around the world, post-secondary education is already a federal responsibility.