VIDEO: Video recording of the AIESEP specialist seminar “Future Directions in PE Assessment” from October 18-20, 2018. Content of the seminar: Given the growing research interest in PE-assessment, the complexities PE-teachers meet in planning and carrying out assessment, and the increasing emphasis placed on accountability within education at large, we aim to draw up an AIESEP Position Statement on PE Assessment based on the specialist seminar. Therefore, a large part of the program will be devoted to various forms of expert group discussion, in addition to the presentation of research, projects and initiatives on assessment in PE and PETE
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Given the complexity of teaching, continuing teacher professional development (CPD) is essential for maintaining and enhancing teaching effectiveness, and bridging the gap between ever-evolving theory and practice. Technological advancements have opened new opportunities for digital tools to support CPD. However, the successful integration of such digital tools into practice poses challenges. It requires adherence to CPD prerequisites and acknowledgment of the complexity of the professional development process. This study explored the applicability of the developed digital PE teacher professional development TARGET-tool in a secondary school PE context. We examined the perceived usability of this tool and gained insights into the process of teachers’ professional development as a result of using the tool. Ten PE teachers from different schools implemented the TARGET- tool within their PE context for a period of 4 to 6 weeks. Individual semi-structured inter- views and the System Usability Scale provided insights into the perceived usability and the process of teacher professional development. The TARGET-tool demonstrated its potential as an effective tool for supporting teachers’ professional development. Future tool improve- ments were identified to further optimize the perceived usability, such as simplifying com- plex features, providing additional support and resources, and improving (data) presenta- tions. Using the Interconnected Model of Professional Growth as a theoretical basis, it was demonstrated how the use of the TARGET-tool engages teachers as active and reflective participants in their professional development and induces changes within the external domain, the domain of practice, the domain of consequences, and the personal domain.
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The European Primary Physical Education Teacher Program (EPRIME) project sees a need and opportunity to help teachers to reimagine their PE lessons and PA offering at pre-school and primary school levels. With it, we seek to improve the quality of PE and the promotion of an active andhealthy lifestyle from an early age across Europe.To reach this goal, 6 partners from 5 countries with 1 European network develop a teachers’ education program that empowers to better impact on the motor skills and psycho-social development of 4-to-7-year-old pupils. Plus, we provide applicable resources that supportawareness-raising initiatives to better include children, parents, sport coaches and other stakeholders in our learning objectives.In order to ensure that the educational program is in line with the wishes and needs of the teachers we organized focus group sessions in the different partner countries, and set out to identify challenges and weak points at personal, organizational and system levels. Furthermore, we identified good practices within the different partner countries to use as assets for the EPRIMEproject.The results of the focus group sessions were categorized into four main themes, factors associated with (1) the teacher, (2) the PE class, (3) other stakeholders, (4) practical considerations.
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Teachers have a crucial role in bringing about the extensive social changes that are needed in the building of a sustainable future. In the EduSTA project, we focus on sustainability competences of teachers. We strengthen the European dimension of teacher education via Digital Open Badges as means of performing, acknowledging, documenting, and transferring the competencies as micro-credentials. EduSTA starts by mapping the contextual possibilities and restrictions for transformative learning on sustainability and by operationalising skills. The development of competence-based learning modules and open digital badge-driven pathways will proceed hand in hand and will be realised as learning modules in the partnering Higher Education Institutes and badge applications open for all teachers in Europe.Societal Issue: Teachers’ capabilities to act as active facilitators of change in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and workforce to meet the future challenges is key to a profound transformation in the green transition.Teachers’ sustainability competences have been researched widely, but a gap remains between research and the teachers’ practise. There is a need to operationalise sustainability competences: to describe direct links with everyday tasks, such as curriculum development, pedagogical design, and assessment. This need calls for an urgent operationalisation of educators’ sustainability competences – to support the goals with sustainability actions and to transfer this understanding to their students.Benefit to society: EduSTA builds a community, “Academy of Educators for Sustainable Future”, and creates open digital badge-driven learning pathways for teachers’ sustainability competences supported by multimodal learning modules. The aim is to achieve close cooperation with training schools to actively engage in-service teachers.Our consortium is a catalyst for leading and empowering profound change in the present and for the future to educate teachers ready to meet the challenges and act as active change agents for sustainable future. Emphasizing teachers’ essential role as a part of the green transition also adds to the attractiveness of teachers’ work.
Developing and realizing an innovative concept for the Active Aging campus in two years, where students, teachers, companies, residents of surrounding Campus neighborhoods will be invited to do exercise, sports, play, meet and participate. This includes, on the one hand, providing input with regard to a mobility-friendly design from an infrastructural perspective and, on the other hand, organizing activities that contribute to Healthy Aeging of the Zernike site and the city of Groningen. It is not only about having an Active Aging campus with an iconic image, but also about the process. In the process of realization, students, teachers, researchers, companies and residents from surrounding districts will be explicitly involved. This includes hardware (physical environment / infrastructure), software (social environment) and orgware (interaction between the two).
Leraarschap van vandaag is veelzijdig en veelvormig. Expeditie Lerarenagenda onderzoekt hoe leraren, teams, scholen, opleidingen en beleid navigeren naar het toekomstig leraarschap van morgen. Adaptief vermogen staat in het onderzoek centraal. Ga mee op expeditie en ontdek hoe het adaptief vermogen van onderwijspersoneel, scholen, opleidingen en beleid versterkt kan worden.Doel De opdracht aan het team is onderzoek te doen naar de professionele kwaliteit van de leraar van vandaag en morgen. We zien leraarschap als een systeem van individuen en organisaties waarbij we de zeven thema’s van de Lerarenagenda 2013-2020 van de overheid (www.delerarenagenda.nl) met elkaar verbinden. Ons onderzoek is innovatief, doorkruist grenzen en zoekt onverwachte verbanden. Resultaten Dit onderzoek loopt. Na afloop vind je hier een samenvatting van de resultaten. Looptijd 01 april 2020 - 01 april 2024 Aanpak We bestuderen adaptief vermogen in de context van drie actuele vraagstukken: Jaar 1: Veranderend beroepsbeeld Jaar 2: Curriculumontwikkeling Jaar 3: Groeiende kansongelijkheid We werken met zeven bouwstenen die zijn gericht op het krijgen van overzicht (wat gebeurt er al?), inzicht (hoe en wat werkt?) en vooruitzicht (werkt het overal?). Elke bouwsteen kijkt op een eigen manier naar het vraagstuk. Samenwerking met kennispartners Het expeditieteam bestaat uit: Ditte Lockhorst, senior projectleider bij Oberon Patricia Brouwer, hogeschoolhoofddocent aan de Hogeschool Utrecht Monika Louws, universitair docent aan de Universiteit Utrecht Marieke van der Pers, postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen en Wageningen Universiteit Bregje de Vries, lerarenopleider en onderzoeker bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Wouter Schenke, senior onderzoeker bij het Kohnstamm Instituut Amber Walraven, universitair docent aan de universitaire lerarenopleiding aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Links Website Expeditie Lerarenagenda Website TeacherTappNL