IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING IN CATALONIA

1. Global figures and indicators

2. Main programmes/topics of in-service training

3. Organization and planning of the training

4. Area-based training programmes (PFZ)

5. Area Educational Services (Pedagogic Resource Centres)

6. Area-based training programmes (PFZ)

7. Centralized training (educational system training activities)

8. In-service teacher training programmes in foreign languages

Index

1. Global figures

• Activities: 9.172

• Hours: 235.284

• Granted places: 199.416

• Total number of teachers: 106.126

• Teachers who have attended at least a training activity: 85.520 (80,6%)

2009-2010

Indicators

• Percentage of participation: 80,6%

• Percentage of teachers with a certficate: 71,6%

• Number of training hours attended per teacher: 40,17

• Average of training hours offered per teacher: 32,37

Methodology and resources of the

school curriculum43%

School management

5%

Health and safety at work

15%

Inclusive school: tutoring special

needs education, mediation, conflicts

resolution, coeducation,…

14%

ICT Information and

communication technologies

23%

2. Main programmes/topics of in-service training

Educational system training activities 15%

Territorial/Regional training activities 17,7%

Area-based training activities 32,4%

School-based training activities 34,9%

Decentralized training

Centralized training

3. Organization and planning of the training

Grants for universities for their collaboration in the teacher training programmes.

Grants for teachers’ associations and professional organizations to programme training activities in the summer (Escoles d’Estiu:Summer Schools) and during the school year

and:

• Activities: 1.196 • Participant teachers: 23.524

This is a 12% of the total number of activities organized during the year and an 11% of the granted places

Training in the summer 2010:

4. 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

5. Area Educational Services

• They group/coordinate all the professionals who advise schools

• The area educational services were established by the Departament d’Ensenyament to help schools and teachers in their pedagogical and educational tasks

• They are responsible for managing the training in their areas

• There are 72 educational services.

6. 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?

7. Centralized training (educational system training activities)

• Programmes for the training in foreign languages

• Programmes for the school management

• Programmes for the training of teacher trainers in collaboration with the universities.

• Programmes for the new teachers in collaboration with the universities.

In-service teacher training In-service teacher training programmes in foreign programmes in foreign

languageslanguages

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 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

The aim is to address the in-service training programmes to schools with a project.

Priorities

Main Programmes:

Training / Enhancing for the schools with a Pla Experimental de Llengües Estrangeres (PELE) .1st year: compulsary 35 hours, 500 teachers.

Activities within the Plans de Formació de Zona. (PELE 2nd and 3rd year, and courses/seminars/workgroups/congresses /,…). 3.100 teachers

Specific programmes for infant and primary school teachers including methodological and linguistic contents. 410 teachers

Objective 1: Foreign language teachers

The only cost for the teachers is the expenses of the trip

Summer grants:

Methodology / Language / Culture

Courses in Catalonia and abroad: France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and Italy

Courses mainly adressed to teachers in a PELE/PAC school.Total number of grants offered: 1.340 (Courses in Catalonia: 500; Abroad: 840)

Length of the courses abroad 2-4 weeks

Objective 1: Foreign language teachers

Activities organized by the ICE (Universities)

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

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: 126 and number of teachers: 2.884)

English and French courses during the summer at the EOI. (Length of these courses: 60 hours, number of courses: 113)

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: 470)

Language courses abroad in the summer. (Length of these courses: 3 weeks, 60 hours. Great Britain: 380 grants, France: 10 grants)

Objective 2: Teachers of other subjects

CLIL/EMILE Training pathwayLevel B2 Linguistic requirement

Initial and compulsory training 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

Plans de Formació de Zona / Exchanging experiences / Contrasting pedagogic

materials

10-Week paid leaves

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