TELESPA (TEACHING LEARNING SPACES COMPETENCE FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION)

Topic(s) addressed

• Pedagogy and didactics

• New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

• Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

• 295 educators and teachers from kindergarten and primary schools 

• 1500 children 

• 50 students

Target groups

• Instruments created for analysing and monitoring learning practices and competence of teachers. 

• A holistic approach and interdisciplinary integration

• Focused on learning spaces study

• Large-scale dissemination of the project’s results

• Broad multicultural context

Methodologies

• Instruments created for analysing and monitoring learning practices and competence of teachers. 

• A holistic approach and interdisciplinary integration

• Focused on learning spaces study

• Large-scale dissemination of the project’s results

• Broad multicultural context

Environments

• Creating adequate teaching materials to modify learning spaces appropriate to students’ age.

• 5 Sensory Learning  Outdoor Gardens were created acting as Research Laboratories of Applied Didactics on Learning Space, facilitating 141 activities for over 1500 participants.

Teachers

• More than 300 teachers were challenged to create new indoor and outdoor learning spaces for very young and young learners, 

• They created new learning materials and developed various teaching scenarios.

• They shared experiences with their colleagues at home and internationally. 

Impact

• The teachers strengthened at least 4 professional skills.

• Their training focused on lifelong learning and improving the quality of early education.

• The desired impact at local, regional, national and European level was the 

• Applying the project’s output in the partner nurseries and kindergartens