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Intercollege - School of Education (Coordinators) Website : intercollege.ac.cy Intercollege is the largest private tertiary education institution in Cyprus with some 150 full time faculty in a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. Intercollege’s degree programmes are accredited by the Cyprus Government, the NCA of USA and some European Accrediting Bodies. As faculty, all fulltime employees are assessed on their roles as educators, researchers and administrators. In the light of the fact that Intercollege is striving to become the largest university in Cyprus these assessments are becoming all too important for the reassurance of quality services (education/research) and therefore such a tool utilising the current trends of technology falls in line with its needs and will aid it in achieving its overall aim as an institution in Cyprus and Europe. The project is put under the School of Education, which trains pre-primary school teachers as well as language teachers. The college received a local government grant to coordinate the development of a Digital Portfolio for the Cyprus primary and secondary school teachers. The experience gained from the local project will contribute to the successful coordination of the European project. Gregory Makrides Partner Representative and Project Coordinator Email : makrides.g@intercollege.ac.cy Paul Gibbs Research Group / Quality Assurance Email : gibbs.p@intercollege.ac.cy Anthos Shekeris Research Group Email : shekeris.a@intercollege.ac.cy Andreas Savva Technology Group Email : savva.a@intercollege.ac.cy Marianna Kafaridou Graphic Design Email : kafaridou.m@intercollege.ac.cy Anna Lazari Administrator Email : lazari.a@intercollege.ac.cy Angela Zographou Administrator Email : zographou.a@intercollege.ac.cy Educational Authority for Upper Austria Website: www.lsr-ooe.gv.at LSR f. OÖ is the public authority for education in the Federal Province Upper Austria. Main areas and responsibilities: Appointment of all teachers, selection and appointment of head teachers, distribution of teachers to schools, assessment/appraisal of teachers, advising teachers and heads as well as parents, inspection of schools, supply of in-service trainings. Expertise: the educational authority has expertise in all fields of their responsibilities (see above), participant and involvement in several European projects. Elfriede Schmidinger Partner Representative and Research Group Email : elfriede.schmidinger@lsr-ooe.gv.at Phone : (+)43-732/7071/1161 Fax : (+)43-732/7071/1190 Federal Teacher in Service Training Institute in Upper Austria Website : www.pi-linz.ac.at PI des Bundes Oberösterreich provides in-service training for teachers in compulsory schools in Upper Austria ranging from preschool teaching, Primary, Secondary till Polytechnic education. Advising teachers in different appraisal systems is part of the training. Heads become trained in special courses to use assessment/appraisal systems to judge teachers. Experience: courses and publications in portfolio for pupils (Primary and Secondary), courses for heads and teachers in using ICT. Helmut Loidl Partner Representative and Research Group arge@vsgoisern.ac.at Phone : (+) 43/6135/8687 or +43/664/4020730 Fax : (+) 43/6135/8687-14 The Amsterdam Faculty of Education Website : www.efa.nl The Amsterdam Faculty of Education is a joint venture of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and of the Hogeschool Holland. It cooperates closely with the University of Amsterdam. It provides teacher training for teachers in all kinds of school, ranging from pre-primary to tertiary. Some 4000 teachers receive their training. The Amsterdam Faculty of Education has experimented with a portfolio for teachers in initial training for 4 years now. The experiments have been subjected to a thorough evaluation carried out by the Stichting Centrum voor Onderwijsresearch in the University of Amsterdam. As a result of interim evaluations the first digital portfolio, which was a laptop based database application, has been replaced with a web based digital portfolio. For these and other experiments the Amsterdam Faculty of Education was generously subsidized by the Netherlands government. The portfolio is now used in the assessment of mature persons wishing to enter the teaching profession. It is felt that the proposed portfolio will contribute significantly to a more extensive traffic of teachers and educators between the participating countries, so that countries with a storage may profit the more readily from a surplus in other countries. Ton Koet Partner Representative and Research Group Email : a.g.m.koet@hetnet.nl Jacqueline Kösters Research Group Email : j.m.p.kosters@efa.nl Willy Weydema Technology Group Email : w.h.weydema@efa.nl Phone: (+) 31/20/5995419 Fax: (+) 31/20/5995771 Teacher Training and Resource Centre in Cehegín Website : http://www.cprmolina.com The Teacher Training and Resource Centre in Cehegín is an official institution directly dependent on the Council of Education and Culture in Murcia. It has been operating since 1987, offering its services in the field of in-service training to about 1,265 teachers of all levels and subjects, from both public and semi-private schools. Its range of activity includes nine Secondary Schools and seventy Primary Schools in a rural and particularly scattered area (3,144 Km2). Together with the Director, there are six Teaching Consultants, each one in charge of a particular Department: ICTs, Special Needs, Foreign Languages and European Programmes, Pre-Primary and Primary Education, Arts and Literature, Science. Among our general objectives, we aim at providing all teachers with the necessary training to allow them to adapt their teaching practice to the results of their reflections, both individual and collective, on the aims of education and their individual role within a common educational project. Also, we try to promote innovation, investigation and curricular experimentation, as a learning tool for the teachers themselves and as a strategy to introduce changes in education. Ascension Lopez Canovas Partner Representative and Research Group Email : alcanovas@terra.es Phone : (+) 34/968/740513 Fax : (+) 34/968/742029 University of Cyprus Website : www.ucy.ac.cy The University of Cyprus was established in 1989 and admitted its first students in 1992. Admission to the University is by national entrance examinations and the competition for places is intense. The ratio of candidates to available places is approximately 10 to 1. The main objectives of the University of Cyprus are twofold: the promotion of scholarship and education through teaching and research and the enhancement of the cultural, social and economic development of Cyprus. Research is promoted and funded in all departments for its contribution to scholarship in general and for its local and international applications. Original research is one of the primary activities of the academic staff at the University of Cyprus. The University’s research programmes cover a wide range of fields that correspond to existing departments. The University is a member of a number of international university organisations and networks. It also cooperates, through inter-state and inter-university agreements, with universities and research centres in Europe and internationally, for the promotion of science, scholarly research and exchange of information. Moreover, the University cooperates with various institutions in Cyprus on research programmes that are specifically aimed at the needs of Cypriot economy and society in general. Department of Education: The mission of the Department of Education is as follows: • Producing and disseminating knowledge in the Pedagogical Sciences • Identifying, researching and studying educational issues • Educating primary and pre-primary teachers for Cyprus schools • Providing graduate programmes with the aim of preparing research personnel and people who will assume leadership position within the educational system • Providing in-service training and staff development courses for school personnel The research interests of the faculty members cover a broad spectrum of areas ranging from issues related to educational assessment and evaluation, to educational management, to sociology and psychology and finally to didactic of the specific subject areas. Department of Computer Science: The Department of Computer Science attaches major importance to research, since it is through research that it accomplishes one of its foremost missions, while, on the other hand, research enable computer science to contribute to local industry and, more generally, to Cypriot society at large. The general research areas of the Department of Computer Science include: Parallel and Distributed Systems and Computation, High-Speed Networks, Internet Technologies, Concurrent Systems, Mobile Computing, Parallel Processing, Open and Distance Learning, Intelligent Systems, Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, and Multimedia Systems. Leonidas Kyriakides Partner Representative and Research Group Email : kyriakid@ucy.ac.cy Phone : (+) 357/22/752913 Fax : (+) 357/22/753702 Birkbeck College, University of London Website : www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk Founded in 1823 as the London Mechanics’ Institution Birkbeck College was incorporated into the University of London by Royal Charter in 1920. Students registered at the College for University of London degrees are Internal Students of the University. Birkbeck not only provides a range of full-time postgraduate taught and research programmes for UK and international students, but fulfils a special mission also meeting the needs of over 5000 mature part-time evening students reading for first or higher degrees. In addition the College provides a range of postgraduate degrees. The department of Computer Science is highly active in research and through its faculty has the expertise to support developments of new tools such as a Digital Portfolio. Constantinos Constantinides Partner Representative and Technology Group Email : cc@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Phone : (+) 44/20/76316796 Fax : (+) 44/20/76316727 St. Angela's College Website : www.stacs.edu.ie Recognised College of the National University of Ireland. Located in the west of Ireland on the shores of Lough Gill, 6km from Sligo city. In the Education Department we are presently developing idea of the ‘Portfolio’ with particular reference to the assessment of teaching practice with our second and third year students. The college is involved in a number of regional (Líonra), cross border and transnational projects and is actively involved in providing in-service and outreach programmes in the area of education, educational management, curriculum development, special needs education, personal and professional development. Maria Campbell Partner Representative and Research Group Email : mcampbell@stacs.edu.ie Phone : (+) 353/(0)7143580 Fax : (+) 353/(0)7144585 Studienseminar Neuss Website : www.studienseminar-neuss.nrw.de Studienseminar Neuss is a place where young teachers that have qualified both for the basic(grade 5 to 10) and the advanced (grade 11 to 13) levels of secondary schools would be trained for the job. Training is done on the job in schools, where both the regular teachers and teacher trainers monitor some of the young teacher’s lessons and give advice, and in the weekly seminars at the Studienseminar. Trainees attend one seminar each for their two subjects and a general seminar that covers general education and didactic questions. This teacher training is scheduled for two years. In the end there is a Second Stage Examination, in which the candidates show their proficiency as teachers in their subjects and for the age and the ability groups in which they will have to teach. Passing this examination is a prerequisite for applying as a fully qualified teacher. Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann Partner Representative and Technology Group Email : zimmermann@stn.nrw.de Gabriele Bodenstein Research Group Email : bodenstein@stn.nrw.de Phone : (+) 49/213791253 Fax : (+) 49/2137912553 Teacher Training and Resource Centre in Molina de Segura Website : centros5.pntic.mec.es/cpr.de.molina.de.segura The Centro de Profesores y Recursos de Molina de Segura (CPR) is a public teacher training centre. This centre has a field of activity that includes seven municipalities, and 65 teaching institutions (primary and secondary school) and about 1200 teachers. The Centre has been working for 8 years now and at present it has got a staff with six training assessors and the director. With regard to the kind of centres we address to, they are very varied, ranging from school groupings; rural centres with 10 to 100 pupils, to Secondary schools with over 1000 students; from state schools to private schools. The participation of teachers within our plan has two different sides: on the one hand, through their cooperation with one of the Official Organisms, the CPR Council and, on the one hand, through their Training Representatives, teachers who visit us monthly, on behalf of their centre/school and who work as a link between the Teacher Training Centre and their school. The function of the CPR is to give advice to teachers on training issues and to plan and carry out training activities in different modalities, to be attended by the teachers in the area. Francisca Colomer Pellicer Partner Representative and Research Group fcolomer@guindo.pntic.mec.es Phone : (+) 34/968/693285 Fax : (+) 34/968/693396 |
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