Integrated Digital Educational Leadership for the Future - IDEAL Future Teaching Academy
Description
The IDEAL Futures Teacher Academy will develop a range of professional development (PD) activities, a certification framework/micro credits and a collaborative digital hub to provide opportunities for transformative dialogue to support educators to develop as future digital educational leaders. It will support pre-service, in-service teachers and educational leaders to consider the challenges facing education in the future and develop a vision based on their individual beliefs and the needs of their school communities, through collaboration with the wider education and technology sector. They will be supported to simultaneously solve specific challenges in the area of digital educational leadership and acquire the necessary skills and expertise through formal online PD.
Basic information
Coordinator
Mary immaculate College, https://www.mic.ul.ie/
Programme
Erasmus+ (programme-erasmus-plus)
Project Acronym
Target groups
education authorities, industry, policy makers, teachers, trainee teachers
Topic
Computer science, Information technology, Technology, Education, Other
Start year
2023
End year
2026
Contact person
Emma O Brien, emma.obrien@mic.ul.ie
To date the project has:
- Created 25 challenge based scenarios on the common challenges facing digital educators and educational leaders across Europe
- Published a report on the Challenges and Professional learning needs of digital educational leaders in schools
- Published a report on the professional learning approaches that support digital transformation in education
- Published a pedagogical model for digital transformation in education
- Developed of a draft competency model for digital leaders, based on an adapted version DigComp Edu model and an associated certification and professional learning framework to enable the implementation of the adapted DigComp Edu Framework. The adapted version of Digcomp edu proposes cross cutting competencies in the area of AI, Ethics and Human centredness
- A pilot digital hub to facilitate professional learning and collaboration between digital educators and educational leaders across Europe
Papers
A report on the Challenges and Professional learning needs of digital educational leaders in schools provides an insight into the what issues digital educators are facing across Europe, it was found that despite differences in educational systems and policies most were experiencing the same issues in digital literacy, fostering online self-regulation, supporting digital social and emotional intelligence, and ensuring equitable access to digital resources.
Our digital hub supports you to self assess your digital competency level and recommends learning pathways based on your results. Within each learning pathway you can choose what learning activities to pursue relevant to your interests, some of these will involve collaborating with other members of the teacher academy. Material is multimodal. On completion of a learning pathway you will be awarded certification.