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Presentation at the 2022 TEPE International Conference: Students’ perceptions of teaching practice at five European universities

Maj 12, 2022 | News

The 16^th TEPE International Conference on ‘Enhancing the value of teacher education research: Implications for policy and practice’ was held from 11 to 13 April 2022 at the University of Graz, Austria. The INSHIP team also participated at the conference with a presentation entitled ‘Learning opportunities in practical phases in pre-service teacher education – the first results of a survey at five European universities’. It included the first results of a survey among university students with two main aims: (1) to describe how pre-service students perceive practical phases, and (2) to test individual, internship and mentoring-related predictors of pre-service students’ professional competences. For more information, see the book of abstracts. The findings were presented by INSHIP team member Prof Anita Trnavčevič.

Prof Anita Trnavčevič presenting the INSHIP research results at TEPE conference.

Presentation of INSHIP team at TEPE conference.

Second Learning, Teaching and Training Activity

Maj 12, 2022 | News

The second learning, teaching and training activity (LTT) was hosted online by the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg from 21 February to 3 March 2022. The event took place over five separate days, three of which were international, where all participants from Slovenia, Spain, Germany and the Czech Republic were present. The other two meetings were national and were held at each university.

The first focus of the second learning, teaching and training activity was media education in practical phases of teacher education. Two guest speakers, Dr Svenja Bedenlier and Dr Melanie Stephan from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg presented a topic on developing media competence in teacher education. The INSHIP team partners from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg presented the preliminary INSHIP model and led a discussion on how to integrate media education into it.

The second focus was the INSHIP curriculum. The INSHIP team partners from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg presented its basic dimensions and examples, which were discussed with all participants.

At the end of the second learning, teaching and training activity, the results of the research ‘Perceived learning offers and outcomes in internship of pre-service teachers’ were presented and discussed.

Overall, the implementation of the second learning, teaching and training activity was successful as we presented and discussed various topics. The discussion gave us the opportunity to elaborate on the topics and share our own experiences and views on teaching practice in relation to media education and the curriculum.

National meeting at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana.

International meeting organized in Zoom.

WELCOME PLAN FOR STUDENTS STARTING THE INTERNSHIP IN SPAIN

Feb 14, 2022 | News

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Each school has a different ‘welcome plan’, adapted to its particularities and needs. But in each plan, the first activity is always a meeting between the university tutor, the school tutor and the head teacher.

At this meeting, various topics are discussed, such as:

- Basic information about the teacher’s practises.
- The content of the ‘seminars’ at the university.
- The main goal of the specific period of practices.
- Documents to be reviewed by the teacher’s students.
- Organisation of the tasks to be done by the students.
- Professionalisation of the teacher.
- Basic information that student teachers need to know.

As an example, we present the activities of the welcome plan of a school in Castalla, Spain:

DAY 1

ACTIVITY 1: Meeting with the head teacher at 9:00. The head teacher will explain the following aspects:

School Organization.

- - Entrances and exits of the centre.
  - Teachers’ timetables.
  - Teachers’ meetings.
  - Hours for meetings with parents.
  - In-service teacher training activities taking place in the school.
  - Recess organization.
  - School lunchroom organization.
  - Teachers’ substitution protocols.
  - Didactic material and consumables.

Education project of the center.

ACTIVITY 2: Coffee break.

ACTIVITY 3: Visit to the centre’s facilities. The teacher in charge of this visit is the primary school teacher coordinator.

ACTIVITY 4: Meeting with the principal.

At this meeting, each student receives their working plan, the classroom assigned to them, specific information about their tasks and the tutor assigned to them.

ACTIVITY 5: Meeting with the school tutor.

At the end of the day, each student has a meeting with their school tutor.

DAY 2

ACTIVITY 1: Meeting with the primary school teacher coordinator and with the kindergarden teacher coordinator.

At this meeting, students teachers receive a short training about the methodology that is used in the school. Moreover, some important aspects for the school are explained:

Relationships with the families.
Behaviour plan.
Teaching materials.

ACTIVITY 2: Each student goes to the class of his/her tutor.

ACTIVITY 3: At the end of the day, there is a meeting with all the staff to introduce the student teachers.

DAY 3

ACTIVITY 1: Meeting with the Teacher coordinator of new technologies.

At this meeting, students learn about the school website, the computer equipment, the access to computers, etc.

ACTIVITY 2: Each student goes to their tutor’s class. In this class they will do team building activities with pupils.

Fifth Transnational Project Meeting

Jan 25, 2022 | News

On 27^th of October the INSHIP team held the fifth transnational project meeting on Zoom. The meeting was hosted by the University of Primorska, Faculty of Management.

The focus of the meeting was to present and discuss different contents of the INSHIP model. We discussed about model conceptualization and implementation, designing teaching practice curriculum, quality indicators of teaching practice and model evaluation.

Partners from Germany presented news about the research progress. All partners are included in the research about university students’ views on teaching practice.

Finally, some organizational issues were discussed. Because the topics on this meeting were complex and many creative ideas emerged that needed to be further elaborated, the discussion was continued on the second meeting on 17^th of December.

TEACHING PRACTICE IN SLOVENIA: PRESENTATION OF NATIONAL CASE STUDY AT INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Okt 13, 2021 | News

On October 1, 2021, the Slovenian INSHIP team from the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, actively participated in the International Scientific Conference “Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development” in Maribor, Slovenia. We presented the results of a national case study on teaching practice in initial teacher education.

The abstract entitled “INSHIP: Towards quality in the teaching practice of pre-service teachers” was also published in the conference proceedings.