preservice teacher [ pre-service teacher ]

pre-service teacher training [ PTT | pre-service teacher education | initial teacher training | initial teacher education ]

initial training | initial vocational education and training | initial vocational training | IVT | IVET [Abbr.]

Two-year Pilot Project of Action Research on Equal Opportunities in the Initial and In-service Training of Teachers | TENET [Abbr.]

initial teacher education | initial teacher training | ITE [Abbr.] | ITT [Abbr.]

agricultural education [ agricultural training | agricultural training(UNBIS) ]

university [ polytechnic | university education | university institute | university training | universities and colleges(UNBIS) ]

VET programme

initial teacher training program [ initial teacher training programme ]

medical training [ medical education | training of doctors ]

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 g ...[+++]uidance on the careers and professional development of teachers and school leaders by reinforcing peer learning 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.

revising and strengthening the professional profile of the teaching profession (including teachers, school leaders and teacher educators), in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, for instance by ensuring effective initial teacher education and by providing coherent and adequately resourced systems for recruitment, selection, initial teacher education, early career support and competence-based continuing professional development of teaching staff.

revising and strengthening the professional profile of the teaching profession (including teachers, school leaders and teacher educators), in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, for instance by ensuring effective initial teacher education and by providing coherent and adequately resourced systems for recruitment, selection, initial teacher education, early career support and competence-based continuing professional development of teaching staff;

At the same time, there is a need to ensure high quality teaching, to provide adequate initial teacher education, continuous professional development for teachers and trainers, and to make teaching an attractive career-choice.