Tag: erasmusPlus

TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’

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At TELLConsult we strongly support the views expressed in ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’ by the EU Commission ‘European Group on Ethics and New Technologies (EGE)’ to offer upskilling and lifelong learning opportunities of the current workforce for a changing labour market. With innovation in education and language teaching  as our specific focus we Read more about TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’[…]

Why we also need blended forms of CPD courses in the EU Mobility Programme

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At TELLConsult Training we have been pleading with the EU #EACEA organisation  for some years now to also financially support blended forms of  courses in the #ErasmusPlus Mobility Programme. So a combination where providers of professional development courses offer an intensive 3-day face-to face, international meeting with lots of input on innovative educational concepts & Read more about Why we also need blended forms of CPD courses in the EU Mobility Programme[…]

ITELab’s invitation to Teacher Educators to complete short online survey

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As asscociate partner in this project on the innovation of the intitial curriculum in teacher education we pass on an edited version of the project’s call for cooperation. For TELL’s related offer for  inservice teacher training eligible for EU grants see this page: https://www.tellconsult.eu/current-courses/ See e.g. this course on pedagogy for tablet use in the classroom Read more about ITELab’s invitation to Teacher Educators to complete short online survey[…]

EU Teacher Academy course content also available as OER for third parties

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Having contributed to initiatives of The Future Classroom Lab created by European Schoolnet TELLConsult is pleased to see that the collaboration options for parties offering courses also via the Teacher Academy catalogue  at School Education Gateway are being expanded. The more since we have been pleading for some time now with national agencies and EACEA Read more about EU Teacher Academy course content also available as OER for third parties[…]

EU project Catapult’s first activity nearing its goal

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  Great response results so far to CATAPULT’s survey on training needs among teachers involved in discipline specific language teaching & freelance LSP (teacher) trainers. Thanks to an intensive campaign including direct mail and ongoing posts on various social media to interest language teachers to share their views and potential needs for professional training for the Read more about EU project Catapult’s first activity nearing its goal[…]

Calling all LSP teachers & trainers

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Calling all LSP teachers and trainers (Version in Dutch below) Dear colleague, We would like to ask for your contribution to a survey about Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), as part of a European project called CATAPULT . We seek to identify potential needs in the professional training of teachers of LSP & discipline specific communication Read more about Calling all LSP teachers & trainers[…]

Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education

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This year’s edition of the annual EUROCALL conference took place in Jyväskylä, Finland. Delegates appreciated the excellent (1) organisation of this 4-day event and the great facilities at the University of Jyväskylä, beautifully located at a lake.  TELLConsult, represented by Ton Koenraad, offered  the workshop ‘ Models, strategies and resources produced in EU projects for m-learning pedagogy development and Read more about Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education[…]

Another successful ErasmusPlus project grant application initiated by TELLConsult.

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Skills mismatches: EU businesses are losing millions, and will be losing even more! According to this study, companies in most of the EU’s Member States are witnessing a growing shortage of workers with skills tailored to their needs. As in our project proposal ‘CATAPULT’ we highlighted the language dimension of this issue, we are glad Read more about Another successful ErasmusPlus project grant application initiated by TELLConsult.[…]

Evaluation results of TELLConsult ErasmusPlus workshop on CLIL at Leuven University

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This edition, customised  for a school in the Netherlands (more details here), based on our Course #13 ‘Language and teaching skills for the bilingual classroom’ was run as an ErasmusPlus consultancy workshop in July 2018, at Leuven University in Belgium.  The evaluation questionnaire addressed delegates’ appreciation of 7 aspects of the course, namely: course topics related activities Read more about Evaluation results of TELLConsult ErasmusPlus workshop on CLIL at Leuven University[…]

TELLConsult Training requested to run a one-day workshop based on its CLIL courses

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TELLConsult confirmed to run a special workshop based on content from two of its ErasmusPlus Courses, Nrs  4 and 13, dealing with teaching & language skills and the use of ICT tools & strategies to support the CLIL classroom https://www.tellconsult.eu/current-courses This customised session was requested as part of a professional development programme by a Dutch secondary Read more about TELLConsult Training requested to run a one-day workshop based on its CLIL courses[…]