Academy for Sustainable Future Educators (EduSTA)

The project consits of the following Work Packages:

WP1: Management
1.1 Preparational Tasks
1.2 Kick off meeting
1.3 project management tasks and reporting
1.4 PMT meetings

WP2 Context and comptence analysis and construction of the underpinning framework
2.1. surveying the politico-legislative frameworks
2.2. conducting workshops in co-operation with the training schools
2.3.  interviewing or distributing in-depth questionnaires to workshop participants and key stakeholders connected to education and teacher training
programmes.
2.4. Output: Online publication and webinar
2.5 Reviewing the competences after WP3-WP5

WP 3 Designing comptence based learining modules
3.1 Defining outcomes of KSC Teacher Training pilots
3.2. Defining learning processes, design principles and instructional strategies
3.3. Designing learning activities, materials and assessment  
3.4. Outputs: online publication & seminar
3.5. Refining Design

WP4 Fostering Educatrors' sustainability competences throug digital open badge driven learning
4.1. Creating common ground for open digital badge-driven learning
4.2. Creating badges by using shared template
4.3 Graphical Design of the badge constellation
4.4. Opening the Open Badge Factory for partners
4.5 Revising the badges after pilots
4.6. Output: Opening a new badge-driven concept and badge constellation for wider audience

WP5 Piloting learning modules and open digital badge driven pathways
5.1 Piloting preparations
5.2  Implementing pilot modules and open digital badge driven learning pathways.
5.3 Evaluating the pilots

WP6 Quality Plan
6.1. Quality plan
6.2. Sustainable collaboration practices
6.3. Internal quality assurance
6.4. External quality evaluation

WP7 Dissemination and Exploitation

7.1. Dissemination & Exploitation plan
7.2. Project Website and other dissemination channels
7.3. Dissemination of the WP outputs
7.4 Final dissemination including web posters and final seminar and co-authored publication

Teachers’ capabilities to act as active change makers in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and workforce to meet the future challenges is key to a profound transformation in green transition. Teachers’ sustainability competences have been researched widely but a gap remains between research and the actual work of teachers. There is a need to operationalise sustainability competences: to describe the direct links with the everyday tasks such as curriculum development, pedagogical design and assessment. Due to the urgent need for sustainably competent workforce, the project focuses on re- and upskilling VET teachers.

On a general level the project will provide:  
1. A strong network of teacher education institutions with shared understanding of educators’ role in ecological transition, the needed competences and educational needs, “Academy for Sustainable Future Educators” (EduSTA) leading to sustainable, long-lasting collaboration.  
2. a collaboratively produced operationalisation of KSCs in the teaching profession implemented through a jointly developed educational offering and open digital badges-driven learning pathways  
3. Deeper understanding and tested sustainable project collaboration practices in international collaboration.

The project will result in a open digital badge constellation of for teacher's sustainability competences and multimodal learning environments facilitating open digital badge driven learning.

In TAMK the project provides new contents and models for teacher training and further training of teachers. The project also strengthens TAMK's international network in teacher education.

EduSTA will be impactful for pre- and in-service teachers, and at institutional and policymaking levels. A diverse palette of educational concepts on teachers’ sustainability competences and open digital badge-driven pathways will support the European dimension and facilitate recognition of prior learning as micro-credentials. EduSTA will equip policy makers with up-to-date knowledge and evidence on the transformative power the operationalised competences can offer to the society, and of the use of open digital badges in the context of sustainability competences.  EduSTA will add to the attractiveness of teacher profession by establishing teachers as key actors in green transition.

Erasmus+ Teacher Academies 2021-2027

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