What defines a school project as 'innovative'? While this assessment may not be straightforward, innovative educators abound in European schools, and the European Innovative Teaching Award is dedicated to identifying them all.
The European Innovative Teaching Award has established four key criteria for innovative teaching and learning. Out of the projects assessed against these criteria, a total of 96 have been selected, their names were revealed on 16 September 2024.
All laureates will be honoured during the European Innovative Teaching Award event on 15 November 2024.
- Multidisciplinary approaches
- Key competence development (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and assessment (formative assessment)
- Linking formal, non-formal and informal learning
- Inclusion, participation, cooperation
- Learner’s active role in the learning process
- Cooperation with external stakeholders
- Schools as enablers of innovation
- Building a positive school climate
- Sustainable use of available resources
- A whole school approach
- Cross-sectoral cooperation (in particular with health care, social services, justice, etc)
- Teachers’ agency as innovators
- Teachers’ wellbeing
- Teachers’ competences
- Teachers’ cooperation and peer learning
- Direct impact on the target groups
- Inclusion of participants with fewer opportunities
- Spill-over effect (to other students, teachers, schools, local communities and parents)