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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

Strengthening of Leadership Skills in dealing with current developments

School: Institut für Frühpädagogik

Strengthening of Leadership Skills in dealing with current developments - Germany

Topic(s) addressed

  • Strengthening the competencies in digitalisation

  • Promoting participation and inclusion 

Target groups

  • 23 people (age 25-60)

  • management and pedagogical staff in daycare centers 

  • IFP staff

Methodologies

  • The joint learning on several levels with the existing network of daycare centres at its core

  • Workshops with the involvement of the participants (main topic, system, country and people, profiles) 

  • Using previous knowledge as a base and developing guiding questions 

  • Using digital learning diaries for logging goals, expectations, learning progress and personal reflections. 

  • Collective discussions on site

  • The evaluation in workshops focused on reflection and transfer. 

  • Creating a set of slides serving as documentation 

Environments

  • Regular and obligatory workshops of the network support the targeted preparation and follow-up.

  • Planned and informal intensive exchange in the group on site

  • The participants brought their experiences to the team.

  • The participating institutions had experience with job shadowing. 

  • Encouraging the participants to carry out English-language job shadowing and taking on trainees. 

Teachers

  • The teachers had already had experience dealing with the topics related to working with the network.

  • The participants contributed to a far-reaching experience and dissemination of the results.

  • They pursued their personal goal of further training and learning together.

  • They played a key role as managers in quality development and discussing the results. 

Impact

  • The experiences disseminated within the IFP through presentations and articles in the annual journal- received by all Bavarian daycare centres- will impact the planning of further projects.

  • Acquisition of robots and the spatial redesign in the Kitas

  • Examples generated by the project changed the attitude toward certain topics.

  • Increasing the understanding of other cultures and daycare systems in Europe

Project category
Early childhood education and care
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

Tallinna Haridusamet

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Estonia

Tallinna Ülikooloiametiühing MTÜ, School of Digital Technologies

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Estonia

Stockholms Stad Utbildningsförvaltningen

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Sweden

Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Scienze della Formazione Primaria,Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali

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Italy

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,Departament de Pedagogis Aplicada Facultat de Cièncesde L'Educa

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Spain