First Project Workshop held in Rennes
The working group of the "Ideal Future" project, along with aspiring teachers and educators, participated in an exchange visit to Rennes II University in France.
From November 26th to 28th, the Erasmus+ Project IDEAL held its first in-person workshop in Rennes. The project aims to empower educators in early years, primary, and post-primary sectors to lead innovative practices and drive transformative change in digital education.
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The IDEAL Futures Teacher Academy will develop a range of professional development (PD) activities and a collaborative digital hub to provide opportunities for transformative dialogue to support educators to develop as future digital educational leaders. It will support pre-service, in-service teachers and educational leaders to consider the challenges facing education in the future and develop a vision based on their individual beliefs and the needs of their school communities, through collaboration with the wider education and technology sector. They will be supported to simultaneously solve specific challenges in the area of digital educational leadership and acquire the necessary skills and expertise through formal online PD.
Learn moreProject management and co-ordination
Identify the key challenges, problems and dilemmas facing pre-service and in-service teachers in a digital era in the context of the digital leadership ecosystem
Identify the key challenges, problems and dilemmas facing pre-service and in-service teachers in a digital era in the context of the digital leadership ecosystem from the perspectives of policy, praxis, pedagogy and identity and identify opportunities for teachers to re-envision and lead a transformative approach to digital leadership in education.
Development of Pedagogical Model
Develop and evaluate a multi-level pedagogical model that supports transformative dialogue and leads to a co-operative and integrated approach to developing solutions to the challenges facing education in the area of digital pedagogical leadership
Development of learning activities and content
Create a range of professional development (PD) content, activities and associated micro-credentials to implement the pedagogical model.
Digital hub
Explore and evaluate how digital technologies, pedagogies and digital models of CPD can be used to facilitate communities of inquiry, transformative dialogue, reflections and virtual exchange of knowledge in the area of digital leadership in education
Pilot and Evaluation
Explore and evaluate how digital technologies, pedagogies and digital models of CPD can be used to facilitate communities of inquiry, transformative dialogue, reflections and virtual exchange of knowledge in the area of digital leadership in education
Sustainable PD Model for Digital Education Leadership
Develop a model of sustainable practice to support pre-service and practicing teachers and educational leaders to continue to integrate transformative dialogue into 4 ITE Programmes and 4 Teacher Professional Development Activities (Ireland, Spain, France and Latvia)
Dissemination
Promote and disseminate the IDEAL Future teacher academy outputs throughout Europe
Quality
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) is an autonomous university-level Catholic College of Education and the Liberal Arts, academically linked with the University of Limerick it is one of the main providers of Initial Teacher Education in Ireland.
The University of Latvia is the country's leading higher education institution and the largest by student enrollment, playing a key role in shaping Latvia's education, economy, and culture.. It offers diverse programs in natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, technical sciences, and medicine to both local and international students.
The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is a public university located in Madrid, Spain.
The Siglo22 Foundation is a non-profit organisation that operates nationwide under the Protectorate of Foundations of the Ministry of Education with the motivation and need to improve the education system and the deficiencies in gender equality.
Among the universities of north-west France, Rennes 2 University offers a unique blend of courses, in fields ranging from fine arts and literature, to languages, human and social sciences and sports science. Our university is firmly rooted in Rennes and in Brittany and is a vibrant driving force, both at the regional level and nationally, thanks to the variety of courses on offer, the quality of its research and its lively arts and culture scene.
2nd Transnational Project Meeting in Latvia. The second transnational project meeting took place in Riga (Latvia) hosted by our partner University of Latvia the 18th and 19th of April 2024.
1st Transnational Project Meeting in Ireland. The first transnational project meeting took place in Limerick (Ireland) hosted by our partner Mary Immaculate College the 18th and 19th of...
From November 26th to 28th, the Erasmus+ Project IDEAL held its first in-person workshop in Rennes. The project aims to empower educators in early years, primary, and post-primary sectors to lead...
IDEAL FUTURE CHALLENGES! The IDEAL future team is delighted to launch the IDEAL Future challenge based scenarios. These challenges developed by Ciara Ní Dhrisceoil and Patrick Hickey from Limerick...
You can already take a look at some of our results, developed within the work packages. Visit our website and find out what we have been working on over the last year. Identification of the key...
We present you the second newsletter of the IDEAL Future project!
We have created an IDEAL project brochure as part of our project dissemination activities.
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