The importance and definition of competences |
- The non routine cognitive work
- 12 years of schools and then massive changes
- collaborative work
- 21st century skills
- Basic skills not sufficient
- New technology - digital society
- "Competences=complex combination of knowledge, skills, understanding, values, attitudes, desir"
Fostering key competence development in learners, including eight key principles for teaching key competences effectively.
Testimonies from stakeholders in Finland involved in designing a new learning environment .
Testimonies from stakeholders in Finland involved in designing a new learning environment .
8 key Competences
1) Teaching should be task based
2) Teaching should be interdisciplinary
3) Learning should be both collaborative and individualized
4) Teaching should be both learner- and teacher- led
5) Teaching should be technologically innovative
6) Teaching should take place inside and outside of school
7) The teachers should collaborate with the wider community
8) Teachers should pay attention to social and emotional aspects of learning
1) Teaching should be task based
2) Teaching should be interdisciplinary
3) Learning should be both collaborative and individualized
4) Teaching should be both learner- and teacher- led
5) Teaching should be technologically innovative
6) Teaching should take place inside and outside of school
7) The teachers should collaborate with the wider community
8) Teachers should pay attention to social and emotional aspects of learning
My comments: Teachers have to be aware of all these competences in order to drive the students to the future.
1.5 Competence-based education in Europe today |
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- Norway’s Cultural Rucksack Programme is a good example of a national initiative which has used an innovative partnership between the educational and cultural sectors as well as dedicated funding to ensure all young people in Norway have the opportunity to engage with high quality, professional arts and culture. The programme has secured funding from the support of surplus national lottery funds.
- Portugal is an example of a country with a specific initiative aimed at developing teachers’ ICT skills so that they can in turn develop their students’ digital competence. The EduScratch initiative promotes the educational use of the programming tool Scratch, which helps develop students’ computational thinking. Teachers were offered in-service training to support their use of the tool.
- Last year Spain published a didactic guide for teachers to support their integration of key competences in the classroom.
- Poland has also recently developed a teaching tools database which includes a bank of complex ready-to-use tasks which teachers can use to develop their students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. The tools database was created to support teachers in implementing the new competence-based curriculum introduced in 2008, which prioritizes the development of students’ problem-solving skills.