In general, I think the key is trying to teach or train abroad by doing a work placement in an training or teaching institution. The training courses I am interested in are the key action 2 and key action 1 that offers the European Commission. The learning mobility of individuals is a common practice amongst students, so why not for teachers?. Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices is something that teachers can do abroad or locally.
These kind of experiences provide fantastic teaching opportunities for the teaching staff, not only in their professional careers but in their life experiencies, they are enriching and rewarding. Moreover they are usefull to update or acquire knowledge of work practices and pedagogical skills, ITC skills and allow to improve teacher language skills such as speaking, listening and learn from students and teachers by interacting with them. It is also important to acquire flexibility and adapt us to educational system changes and the society reality regarding the competences and skills required for properly integrated into the same level of success enough in personal, social and working students life. Although KA3 training course is also interesting and important.
Sharing good practices amongst teaching professionals
In my opinion, cooperation with third countries is the best way to share good practise amongst teaching professionals. The idea is exchange good practices by focusing on neighbourhood countries and foster innovation. In a local level, the cooperation amongst different communities is also a fantastic way to evaluate and apply technics. Collaborating learning boosts the acquirance and the construction of knowledge among teachers.
Collaborative learning has a number of advantages over learning individual:
- Increase motivation of all members of the group towards the learning outcomes and content.
- Individual learning increases the whole group learning and all of them get better results.
- It promotes the critical thinking
- The diversity of knowledge and experiences of the group help to reduce anxiety causing individual situations troubleshooting
Sharing knowledge is essential because it allows to increase the employability through traineeships or by enriching or modify the existing practices. Also it help promoting the change we need and trigger policy reform. That is usefull to exchange teaching technics, implement or improve your own technics gathering ideas from other colleagues. But it is important to apply and focus our teaching should be integrated into the curriculum of our institutions.