If you are responsible of an educational entity

Centre name: Monteverde School
Town/City: Mexico CityChallenge(s) completed:  Authentic assessment and autonomous learning (in progress)
Number of teachers: 196
Satisfaction and achievement: in general we are pleased… it has good theoretical foundations and we try to combine it with practical side so it is more dynamic. It is useful for training all the teachers so that the whole community is speaking the same language for developing the common work guidelines.

 

Usefulness of TeachersPro for…

• Teacher training: TeachersPro allows all teaching staff to be trained at the same time throughout the school year, which helps them improve their teaching.
• Performance assessment: In the first Challenge the teachers uploaded any evidence, but in the second they are sharing better examples of what they have learnt. I also believe that being the second challenge they understand better what is being asked of them.
• Development of Professional Learning Communities: TeachersPro has enabled the creation of a learning community among the teachers, particularly when we make them work in teams on the Challenge contents. It also enables them to speak the same language and when they have any doubts, they solve them amongst themselves.

Centre name: San Bonaventura School
Town/City: Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
Challenge(s) completed: Learning spaces
Number of teachers: 44
Satisfaction and achievement: Medium-high TeachersPro is being used to train the teaching staff and share strategies and practices.

 

Usefulness of TeachersPro for…

• Teacher training: Facilitates the development of a common guideline for teaching practice in the classroom.
• Teaching performance assessment: It enables us to monitor each teacher’s progress in their process of acquiring teaching competencies.
• Development of Professional Learning Communities: It is a first step towards more advanced implementation and direct application in the centre.

Centre name: Sopeña School (Dolores Sopeña Foundation)
Town/City: Barcelona
Challenge(s) completed: Cooperative Learning, Skills Assessment, Skills Planning and Educational Leadership.
Number of teachers: 30
Satisfaction and achievement: It helps to manage the teacher training hours and allows them tocertify their training. It is done throughout the school year so it does not all have to be done during the holidays.

 

Usefulness of TeachersPro for…

• Teacher training: the teaching staff find this platform useful; they give positive reviews of the infographics, and that the skill is flexible and clear. They also consider the incorporation of the workshops in each skill to be very positive. Thanks to them, they share and reinforce the theory, and the teachers find the work they have previously done to be useful during the implementation of the skill.
• Performance assessment: we currently consider it for certifying training and monitor who has and has not done the training. In the teacher performance interviews, we cover training and feedback, which we give using the reports provided by the Platform.
• Development of Professional Learning Communities: this year we have managed to get the teaching staff to see the platform as a community for the exchange of knowledge and interaction with teachers from other centres. As the management team, we continue motivating and accompanying the teaching staff from the platform through individual feedback for each teacher and providing time and space to do the workshops and practice the skills.

Centre name: Ministry of Education, Training Management of Active Teachers (DIFODS)
Town/City: Peru
Challenge(s) completed: Educational Leadership.
Number of users: 70
Satisfaction and achievement: the suggested strategies were useful for teacher training, through the correct use of the theoretical foundations, attractive visual organisation and exercises linked to teaching experience. The shared evidence and continuous assessment that teachers received enabled them to incorporate tools and strategies in their teaching.

 

Usefulness of TeachersPro for…

• Teacher training: it is contributing to the strengthening of professional competencies and to the implementation of self-training as it is a very interactive platform, that allows teachers to reflect through theoretical and practical activities.
  The platform design helps us deal with teachers’ needs and requests from various areas of teaching action.
• Performance assessment: the platform has promoted self-assessment and peer assessment as the means to provide continuous feedback on the themes it offers. This immediate feedback has enabled teachers to reflect and discover which areas they must improve, benefiting their metacognitive processes.
• Development of Professional Learning Communities: as a tool to support research, cooperative work and interaction between peers, it enriches and encourages the work we have been implementing to develop professional learning communities in our educational entity.

Centre name: Federation of Ikastolas (Ikastolen Elkartea Europear Kooperatiba)
Town/City: Basque Country, Spain
Challenge(s) completed: 40 micro-Challenges for 25 schools in its network.
Number of teachers: 900 teachers.
Satisfaction and achievement: Each school (ikastola) is using it in a different way, but in general, we are using it to do basic initial training for all teachers, which we consider a priority to face the challenge of implementing new teaching practices. This is something the Platform offers us in a dynamic and personal way.

 

Usefulness of TeachersPro for…

• Teacher training: it gives you the option to work on the specific educational competencies of teachers, expand the teaching “toolbox”, as well as teaching knowledge of new methodologies.
• Performance assessment: we have learnt the importance of assessing what we do through personal (self-assessment), joint (co-assessment) and diverse assessment (hetero-assessment). This should be the starting place for each member of the teaching team. To improve, it is necessary to assess and we all need constructive feedback during our improvement process; knowing where I am going, where I am and how I can improve is always much easier when different points of view are taking into consideration.
• Development of Professional Learning Communities: it is important to be part of a trained community, in this case the training is based on Challenges on which all the teaching staff work and, therefore, it helps to cooperate, work as a team and reflect together on the teaching in the classroom. Learning communities should be understood as the future of education, teamwork is always more effective and satisfying than working in isolation. We must move on from individual practice to a vision of common, agreed and justified practice.