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TC4PI 526596-LLP-1-2012-1-ES-COMENIUS -CMP This project has been funded with support from the European Commission

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TC4PI TEACHER COMPETENCES FOR PLURILINGUAL INTEGRATION

TC4PI is a Comenius Multilateral Project that was launched and implemented with the

financial support from the EC under LLP.

The project, called “TEACHER COMPETENCES FOR PLURILINGUAL INTEGRATION” gathers six

institutions in five countries: Centro de Formaciam del Profesorado en ldiomas CFPI (ES) as

coordinator and Universidad de Valladolid (ES), Mykolas Romeris University (LT), The

University of J. E. Purkyne,Usti nad Labem (CZ), Regionalny O'Srodek Doskonalenia Uczycieli

"WOM" (PL) and Asist Ogretim Kurumlari, A .S. Doga Schools (TR) as partners.

The main reason for starting this project is the identification of a lack of clarity as to which

competences are required for teachers in order to integrate an intercultural dimension in

plurilingual education. This situation requires rethinking teacher education. Besides, it is

seen that there is a visible lack of continuity among the different lifelong training stages

according to the lifelong training policy claimed by the European Commission: starting in

pre-service teacher training (University stage) and continuing through in-service teacher

training.

Plurilingual Competence is the capacity to successively acquire and use different

competences in different languages, at different levels of proficiency and for different

functions.Intercultural Competence is the combination of knowledge, skills, attitudes and

behaviours which allow a speaker to varying degrees; to recognize, understand, interpret

and accept other ways of living and thinking beyond his/her home culture.

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WELCOME TO THE TC4PI NEWSLETTER, ISSUE 1, MAY / 2014

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presenting you the first information and progresses about the “TC4PI ” Project.

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The project aims to contribute to a plurilingual and intercultural education by designing a teacher

training framework oriented towards the development of teachers and professional competences

dealing with the intercultural dimension in plurilingual education. As the starting point of

Framework Document, bibliographical research on plurilingual and intercultural competence was

realized in the partner countries.Based on the bibliographical research, intercultural competence

has been conceptualized as a combination of knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours which

allow a speaker, to varying degrees, to recognize, understand, interpret and accept other ways of

living and thinking beyond his or her home culture.

The Network of pre-service teachers (University stage) and in-service teachers is created to

exchange the best practices between teachers and management/leadership. The questionnaires

were applied on the network. Based on an analysis of the results of the questionnaires on learning

languages and training in multicultural teaching, pre-, during- and post-job-shadowing protocols

were developed as tools for developing plurilingual and multicultural teacher competences.

The objectives of the project:

1. Design a teacher training framework oriented towards the development of teachers´ professional

competences dealing with the intercultural dimension in plurilingual education.

2. Create a network of schools of similar characteristics for the exchange of best practices between

teachers and management/leadership.

3. Research on competences. Analyze official documents on teachers multicultural competences.

4. Make exchanges/job shadowing/observation period/team teaching by teachers employing an

intercultural approach to plurilingual education.

5. Create training courses, courses, seminars and training modules on the development of specific

intercultural and plurilingual competences.

6. Evaluate teachers´ didactic approaches and linguistic and intercultural competences of students

in the different languages present at school/high school, observed in the different subjects,

additional education activities & specific of the whole education community at school.

7. Disseminate and exploit results /outputs of the project.



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Job shadowing is the most innovative aspect of the TC4PI Project. Through job shadowing TC4PI

intends to promote collaboration and exchanges among teachers. The presence of teachers from

other countries in the school community would enhance attitudes of curiosity as well as a deeper

understanding of linguistic and cultural diversity.

Pre job shadowing ; The teachers as job shodowers from partner countries prepare their school

presentations using the plurilingual and multicultural elements with the steps of multiculturalism

as Level of self-awareness , Emotional response to difference, Cultural interaction. They update

their profiles and upload their presentations to the platform www.tc4pi.eu They start meeting

with other teachers on the platform and share their feelings about the job shadowing.While Job

Shadowing ; Job shadowers visit the schools in the partner countries and observe the pupils there

They also perform their lesson related to their country’s culture and watch also the other job

shadowers’ performances and do reflections.Post Job Shadowing ; Job shadowers share their

experiences with their colleagues and other jobshadowers and also enter the platform to share

these experiences with other teachers on the VLE

The protocols are intended as part of the job shadowers’ portfolio which will be used in the

assessment of the teachers’ plurilingual and multicultural competences during the training and the

post-job-shadowing period. By enhancing collaboration, dialogue and reflection job shadowing as a

contextual training tool contributes to an understanding of plurilingual education and to the

development of teachers’ competences.

Five / International Job shadowing events have been planned and two of them were realized in

Czech Republic (06-10 October 2013) and Poland (10-14 March 2014).

*In Usti Na d Labem 6 host teachers in the Czech Republic + 8 job shadowers from the partnership

countries were involved to the first JS.

*In Bielsko-Biala 9 host teachers and 8 job shadowers from the partnership countries were

involved to the second JS.

DISSEMINATION EVENTS

PARTNER 1 CENTRO DE FARMACION DEL PROFESORADO EN IDIOMAS (CFPI), SPAIN

2013 - LNQ Conference in Rome,Italy.

3-6 September 2012 - study visit to Padua Italy.

25 January 2013 Regional course for German teachers.

2 February 2013 Regional course for CLIL teachers.

8-12 October 2013 Workshop in Strasbourg France.

25-29 November 2013 study visit to Athens Greece.

October 2013 pre and post job shadowing meeting.



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PARTNER 2 UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLODOID, SPAIN

17th May, 2013, International Conference LINQ 2013 Learning Innovaions and Quality: ‘The Future

of Digital Resources’, FAO Headquarters, Rome.

5th november 2013, Third Meeting with associated schools in the network, CFPI Valladolid.

March, 2013, II Meeting with associated schools in the network, CFPI.

22 May 2013, Conference at Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid, Presenting TC4PI project

to pre-service teachers.

PARTNER 3 MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY,LITHUANIA

November 2013, 3 meetings school teachers and administrators from S.Neris gymnasium ,

A.Kulvietis secondary school.

April 15, 2013, School teachers were invited to the 2nd partner meeting in Vilnius and met with

the administration of Mykolas Romeris Institute of Humanities.

September, 2013, Meeting with students (pre-service) and information about the project.

December, 2013, Meeting with students (pre-service) in preparation for reflection stage.

PARTNER 4 UNIVERSITY OF J.E. PURKINE USTI NAD LABEM, CZECH REPPUBLIC

Dec 19, 2012 Plenary meeting of the Department of English, Ústí nad Labem.

Oct 25.-26., 2012 Challenges IV - International Conference held by Dept. of English, PF UJEP in Ústí nad Labem.

May 13, 2013 Meeting with job shadowers and other teachers Ústí nad Labem.

Apr 24, 2013 Meeting of NEFLT Project Partners (Brno).

Apr 2, 2013 Plenary meeting of the Heads of Departments, Faculty of Education, UJEP. Ústí nad Labem.

NOv 13, 2013 Challenges V - International Conference held by Dept. of English, PF UJEP in Ústí nad Labem.

Oct 4, 2013 Meeting with job shadowers and other teachers Ústí nad Labem.

June 11, 2014 Meeting with job shadowers and other teachers Ústí nad Labem.

March 17, 2014 Meeting with job shadowers and other teachers Ústí nad Labem.

13-14 November 2014, International Conference Challenges V: Harmony and Diversity, Usti nad Labem, the Czech Republic.



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UPCOMING EVENTS

The awareness of the cultural diversity and plurilingualism in Europe will be developed and by ICT tools (VLE,Facebook,Twitter ) the transfer of knowledge and experiences of the partners will be shared.Also a conference in Spain has planned for 200 hundred teachers and professionals of education in Valladolid .

Planned Project Meetings and Job Shadowing Dates will be like the following ;

October 2014 Vilnius/ Litvania

February 2015 Istanbul/Turkey

June 2015 Valadolid /Spain

PARTNER 5 REGIONALY O’SRODEK NEU CZYDELLI , POLAND

3.04.2012 Meeting at RODN WOM, Associated teachers and Polish project partners.

2.03.2013, Meeting at RODN WOM ,Teachers of foreign languages from Bielsko-Biała Region.

3.09.2013, Meeting at RODN WOM, Job shadowers and Polish project partners.

29.10.2013 Meeting at RODN WOM ,Job shadowers their principals and Polish project partners.

18.12.2013 Meeting at RODN WOM ,Job shadowers and Polish project partners.

13.01.2014 Meeting at Zeromski School, Job shadowers from Żeromski School and Polish partners.

16.01.2014 Meeting at Kopaliński School Preparation for 2nd job shadowing and 4th project meeting.

13.02.2014 Meeting at RODN WOM , Bielsko-Biała, Poland, Teachers of gfreign languages of Bielsko-

Biała Region and Polish project partners.

11.02.2014 Meeting at RODN WOM , Bielsko-Biała, Poland, Job shadowers and Polish project

partners.

PARTNER 6 DOGA, TURKEY

28 March 2013, 20 head teachers were invited to the local workshops to define the job shadowers

and create the network among the language teachers at Ataşehir Doga Campus .

6 & 24 April 2013 – Dissemination Workshop.

8 June 2013 ; two types of dissemination event ;

1- A general information about TC4PI in Joy of Sharing International Project and Good Practices

Summit in Istanbul to 200 people.

2- A workshop dedicated to TC4PI was realized.

6 September 2013 dissemination seminar for head teachers of Language Departments.

9 November 2013 Local job shodowing event to reach the new target group.

5 April 2014 training interactive workshop for job shadowers and head teachers.



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TWITTER :@tc4pi https://twitter.com/tc4pi

YOUTUBE :https://www.youtube.com/user/TC4PI

Coordinator Partners

Centro de Formaciam Doğa Schools, The University of J. E. Purkyne Mykolas Romeris University Universidad de Valladolid Regionalny O'Srodek

del Profesorado en ldiomas CFPI Turkey Usti nad Labem,Czech Rebublic Litvania Spain Doskonalenia Uczycieli "WOM",

Spain Poland

WHAT IS VLE ? - VIRTUAL PLATFORM

The VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) is hosted in

the institutional website of the CFPI as virtual

classrooms for teachers with specific tools for

evaluation and communication.

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