CONTINUOUS TEACHER TRAINING IN CATALONIA

- The training is always non-compulsary, with the only exception of some specific programmes:

Training for school management or new teachers,

and the activities are developed outside the teachers’ school timetable

- It has benefits for the teachers concerning their professional career:

Economic promotion, becoming a headteacher, applying for a post in

another school, …….

- A five-year long general plan

- Yearly specific instructions

Main features

Global figures

• Activities: 8,554

• Granted places: 187,400

• Total number of teachers: 106,126

• Teachers who have attended at least a training activity: 75,386

2010-2011

Indicators

• Percentage of particpation: 78.1%

• Percentage of teachers with a certficate: 70.6%

• Number of training hours attended per teacher : 48.8

• Average of training hours offered per teacher: 38.1

Main programmes/topics of CPD

Methodology and resources of the school curriculum

42%

Inclusive school: tutoring, special

needs education, mediation, conflicts

resolution, coeducation...

13%

Foreing languages13%

ICT Information and communication technologies

18%

Health and safety at work9%

School management

5%

Organization and planning of the training

External17%

Centralized 38%

Decentralized45%

Area-based training programmes (PFZ)

Territory

Barcelona Comarques Baix LlobregatCatalunya CentralMaresme-Vallès OrientalGirona Vallès Occidental Lleida Tarragona Terres de l’EbreConsorci d’Educació de Barcelona

Area-based training programmes (PFZ)

- The training activities offered give an answer to the needs stated by the schools and teachers of a specific area.

54%46%

Training adressed to teachers of different schools

Training adressed to teachers of the same school (school’s training plan)

Which aims?

Continuous teacher Continuous teacher training programmes in training programmes in

foreign languagesforeign languages

Increase the methodological and linguistic competences of the foreign language teachers (primary and secondary).

Increase the linguistic competences of the teachers of all the other areas.

Train teachers of non-linguistic areas to teach their subject in a foreign language (CLIL / EMILE)

Objectives

Teachers in a school with a PELE project (Pla Experimental de Llengües Estrangeres)

Teachers in a school with an Autonomy project where foreign languages are involved.

Teachers in a school with a Comenius project Vocational training teachers who teach their subject in a foreign language Teachers involved in the Batxibacc project

The aim is to address the continuous training programmes to schools with a project to make training an important part of

the achievement of the project’s objectives

Priorities

Main Programmes:

Summer grants: Courses in Catalonia and abroad: France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland.

Contents: Methodolgy/Language/Culture

Number of places offered: 875 (abroad: 275)

Activities within the Plans de Formació de Zona (decentralized training) (PELE 2nd and 3rd year and courses/seminars/workgroups/congresses /,…). 1,500 places

Objective 1: Foreign language teachers

Specific programmes for infant and primary school teachers including methodological and linguistic contents ( 340 places)

Activities organitzed by other institucions (Teachers’ associations, British / French / German Institutes,……) and approved as continuous training activities.

Activities organized by the ICE (Universities)

Objective 1: Foreign language teachers

The aim is to train teachers to achieve the B1 and B2 levels

English courses during the school year at the official schools of languages (EOI). (Length of these courses: 130 hours, number of courses: 91 and number of teachers: 2,343)

English and French courses during the summer at the EOI. (Length of these courses: 80 hours, number of courses: 35, number of teachers; 875)

Grants offered in the regular EOI courses in different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Russian (Length of these courses: 130 hours, number of teachers: 390)

Language courses abroad in the summer. (Length of these courses: 3 weeks, 60 hours. Great Britain and France: 230 grants)

Objective 2: Teachers of other subjects

CLIL/EMILE Training pathwayLevel B2 Linguistic requirement

Initial and compulsory training course during the school year or in the summer (35h)

PELE-1st year

PELE 2nd and 3rd year Putting the project in practice with the students

Courses/Seminars: Plans de Formació de Zona / Exchanging experiences / Contrasting pedagogic materials

10-Week paid-study leaves

Class materials production

Workgroups (Producing new pedagogic materials)

These teachers work as teacher trainers in presentations/PELE training/workshops/---

Objective 3: CLIL / EMILE

10-week paid leaves

Aims:

40 teachers every year

Different gropus for primary and secondary teachers

- Write CLIL / EMILE materials

- Know more about the CLIL / EMILE methodology

- Linguistic improvement

Groups in the first term (oct / dec.) and the second term (jan / march)

Requirements: - Schools with a CLIL / EMILE project

The produced materials are available on the Department’s website

Objective 3: CLIL / EMILE

Information of the training activities

The information and the applying procedures of all the training organized by the Departament d’Ensenyament is available on this website:

http://www.xtec.cat/formacio