Tool on Teacher Training for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education

This document is part of the Council of Europe's "Education for Democratic Citizenship Pack", which provides documents, strategies and approaches that are intended to help bridge policy and practice in the development and implementation of policy and practice for education for democratic citizenship (EDC) and human rights education (HRE) across all education sectors. This practical and short document includes chapters on: The need for teacher training in EDC (challenges to the traditional model of citizenship; a new kind of citizenship requires a new kind of education; EDC as a common European approach; the need for more effective systems of teacher education; factors affecting the provision of teacher training programmes), Support structures and mechanism (policy-making; policy implementation; pre-service training; in-service training), Teacher competencies (what must students learn in EDC?; what competencies do teachers require to support EDC?; teaching methods; management and people skills; reflection and improvement) and Processes and methods (characteristics of teacher training in EDC; the training process; learning climate, the role of the EDC trainer, a case study on processes and methods, training the trainers). Target audience: teacher trainers, teachers, school leaders and principals, curriculum coordinators, NGOs and community organisations.

original connect:http://www.hrea.org/