ENTEP and TEPE

What is ENTEP?
A fairy tale
What is ENTEP?
Effectiveness and communication reliability
Level of formality
Brief historical excursion
Network goals
ENTEP activities
Organisation and working procedures
ENTEP and TEPE: Four models
Resumee

A fairy tale
It is the year 2007. Europe has a leading role in education world wide. The teaching profession is attractive and highly valued, …

A fairy tale – part 2
All teachers are ‘learning professionals’. Many remain closely connected with higher education institutions and may be engaged with research. They all routinely spend time reflecting on their experiences and updating their knowledge, skills and competences. …

A fairy tale – part 3
Teachers are fully supported in building their expertise and in maximising their time. They are provided with excellent initial and in-service training and education (guided by regular and effective performance reviews and evaluations), regular opportunities for study visits at home and abroad, research scholarships and sabbaticals. …

What is ENTEP?

What is ENTEP?
ENTEP is not what TEPE could be
ENTEP is a no-budget network of representatives of the European ministers of education.
ENTEP representatives come from different backgrounds and have different expertise

Effectiveness and communication reliability
Varying degree of closeness to the minister
Communication reliability is variable

Level of formality
Medium level of formality
More openness, but less reliability

What is ENTEP?
ENTEP status
It is neither a decision group nor an expert group.
It is an advisory group or reference group that acts as a sounding board for the European Commission and individual member states.

Brief history
Launched in Loulè (Portugal) in 2000
At first 14 countries
In 2003: 10 new member states
In 2007: 2 new member states

What is ENTEP?
Network goals
Promote co-operation among European Union Member States regarding their teacher education policies in relation to initial, in-service and continuous professional development programmes, in order to:
Develop opportunities to learn from each other by analysing and comparing policies and issues, as well as by sharing good practice
Promote the discussion and analysis of teacher education policy initiatives taken at national and European level

What is ENTEP?
Network goals
Contribute to:
Raising teacher education quality;
Developing a European dimension of education and other elements which could be common in teacher education programmes;
Improving the public image of the teaching profession;
Improving mutual trust in the teaching qualifications awarded by Member States;
Promoting teacher mobility in the European Union.

What is ENTEP?
ENTEP Activities
At European level
It promotes the exchange of information about recent issues, trends and policies in the European Union Member States for mutual inspiration;
It addresses issues of common concern;
It works on the construction of convergences;
It participates in ongoing community work.

What is ENTEP?
ENTEP Activities
Within the Member States
It contributes to a European perspective of the debate on teacher education policies;
It contributes to policy and decision-making concerning teacher education policies.

Organisation and working procedures

What is ENTEP?
How ENTEP works
Two conferences per year
Working on two to three topics
Topics chosen in accordance with the current priorities in member states and the European Commission
Informing the Ministries about work done in ENTEP: Coordination Notes (Dissemination in Europe)
Publications
Documents

How ENTEP works
Two conferences per year
Working on two to three topics
Topics chosen in accordance with the current priorities in member states and the European Commission
Informing the Ministries about work done in ENTEP: Coordination Notes (Dissemination in Europe)
Publications
Documents

Themes in ENTEP
Teacher education and the Bologna process, ECTS
Research and teacher education
Training the (teacher) trainers
Profiles and competences of teachers
Strategies of change in teacher education
Lifelong learning in teacher education

ENTEP-Conference in Loulé, Portugal, 2000

ENTEP-Conference in Umea, Sweden, 2001

ENTEP-Conference in Feldkirch, Austria, 2002

ENTEP-Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, 2003

Translations: French Polish German

ENTEP and TEPE

What is ENTEP?
Model 1
Expert group and focus group
Identify issues in larger groups like ENTEP
 work on them in focus groups within TEPE
 description of the issue and
 recommendations.

What is ENTEP?
Model 2
Joint conferences
High-level discussions
Contacts
ENTEP coordinator as a link between ENTEP and TEPE
First possible venue: Slovenia, May 2008

What is ENTEP?
Model 3
Joint outcomes
Working papers
Publications

What is ENTEP?
Model 4
Research involvement
ENTEP – high-level discussion group
TEPE - research expertise

What is ENTEP?
Resumee: ENTEP & TEPE
Common interest in teacher education policies
Common aim to improve the quality of teacher education in Europe
Enough common ground to go forward

Thank you for your attention

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