Peer-learning workshop ‘Teaching Excellence – Empowering Educators’

The regional peer-learning workshop on Teaching Excellence – Empowering Educators is jointly organised by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia and the European Training Foundation (ETF) under the EU-funded Regional Programme supporting Education Reforms & Skills in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region. 

The peer-learning workshop will focus on sharing practices and experiences and discussing challenges on teachers and educators as key actors of education systems and reforms.  

Logic and Content  

The peer-learning event aims to:

• share and learn from good practices of Finland and Estonia in teacher education and professional development at all levels of education and teacher system management and policies; 
• share experiences and discuss ongoing reform initiatives on teacher education and system management in the EaP countries;
• identify key take-aways for policy agenda and priorities on modernising the teaching profession and making it attractive and sustainable for education systems in the EaP countries 

The peer-learning event will cover e.g. the following topics: 

• Governance, financing and legal framework: including institutional setting and coordination for effective teacher management and policies; 
• Teaching profession: including qualification requirements, teacher education, recruitment and pre-requisites for becoming an educator at different levels of education systems and attractiveness of profession;  
• Career paths and professional development of teachers: including in-service training and professional development, various roles of teachers and mobility opportunities in profession and in education sector as a whole; 
• Pedagogical aspects and delivery of curriculum: including autonomy of educators in classroom, digitalisation of teaching & learning process and assessment of students’ learning outcomes and teachers’ competences;  
• Vision: including expectations of society vis-a-vis teachers and educators, their changing role in organising and managing a learning process in modern school as well as enabling factors and policies to support teaching profession in the future 

More information on ETF Open Space & Supporting education reforms and skills in the Eastern Partnership region | ETF (europa.eu)