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About ITQ

The Identifying-Teacher-Quality Project is an three year international project, which started in August 2006 and ended in 2009. The project involved 21 institutions from 12 European countries (see list of participating institutions).

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The aim of the project was to support teachers in Europe to strengthen their professional quality through the development of a toolbox with tools that enables teachers (and other stakeholders) to recognize, reflect upon and to evaluate teacher quality.

The quality of the teacher is a key element in raising the quality of education and in raising student outcomes. However in many formal national or European activities to define teacher quality, active involvement of teachers is limited. The risk is that teachers feel no ownership of their own professional quality.
 
The toolbox can help teachers to gain increased ownership of their professional quality.
It includes a variety of reflection tools, using different sources for reflection and stimulating different learning styles.
The toolbox can be used in pre-service and in-service teacher education, in national projects on teacher quality and in processes of school development and can focus both on the quality of teacher, student teachers, teacher educators, et cetera.
The project run through five stages:
  • Development of the tools (year 1: 2006-2007);
  • Pilots in a variety of contexts including a intensive Comenius course (year 2: 2007-2008);
  • Evaluative research on the pilots (year 2: 2007-2008);
  • Adaptation of the toolbox (year 3: 2008-2009);
  • Dissemination through website, workshops and publications (year 3: 2008-2009).

Details can be found in the projectplan.

 

Co-ordination

Co-ordinating institution is Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, The Netherlands.

The project has four co-ordinators:

Lex Stomp, Windesheim University, Zwolle, The Netherlands

Marco Snoek, Amsterdam Institute of Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jöran Rehn, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Gillian Hilton, Middlesex University, UK.

 

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Support

The project is funded by the Socrates programme of the European Commission.

 

 

ATEE RDC Curricula in Teacher Education

The ITQ-project is connected to the Research and Development Centre (RDC) on Curricula in Teacher Education of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE).

Within this RDC issues and developments within curricula for teacher education are studied and compared. The RDC takes initiatives for international projects like the Scenario writing project, the development of a thematic issue of the European Journal for Teacher Education (2003-1) and the ITQ-project.