In order to become active citizens, schools and teachers have to give students opportunities in order to develop citizenship competences in diverse contexts (home, school, local community …). Allowing students to reflect and critically assess connections within these contexts can help them to take action related to national and global issues. Diverse interpretations of citizenship education exist across and within European members states. Due to its wide range of curricular objectives and diverse contexts in which it is taught and learned, citizenship education challenges teachers and schools to integrate it in the curriculum.
The main focus lies on a formative approach of assessment by making the learning process visible. The role of the teacher lies in setting clear goals and designing effective learning situations and classroom activities in order to achieve the citizenship competences. Furthermore, teachers can create opportunities for students to receive feedback that drives the learning process. It is important to activate students as instructional resources for one another (peer assessment) and to reflect on their own learning (self-assessment) within the formative framework of assessment.
The Czech group consisted of teachers from the Hladnov Gymnasium in Ostrava, from the Mendel Gymnasium in Opava and from the Elementary School Dětská in Ostrava. We thank them for their professional approach, openness and willingness. We are honored to work with these great people and create opportunities to share their experiences on an international level.
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Teachers were listening to lectures and consequently discussing and sharing their experience. The next opportunity for the meeting of such scale will in Palermo, Sicily, in autumn 2023.
PThe presentations from the conference are available at the project website www.alice-project.eu
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The training session is the first module of a teacher professional development course that aims at formative assessment methods. The participants are teachers at primary and secondary level and teaching civic education, history and other subjects where active citizenship might be implemented.
Kromeriz will host the event in the House of Culture (www.dk-kromeriz.cz) in the days of 29th and 30th of September 2022..
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Special attention was given to preparation of the training event planned for September 2022 in Kromeriz, the Czech Republic. Attendants from all participating countries are expected to come to learn and find out more about formative assessment in regard to civic education, how to assess the competencies and to share their practices.
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It was an exciting and lively meeting with many productive discussions and outcomes. First half of the meeting summarized the progress of focus talks in partner countries. Individual partners described the way they organized or would organize these focus talks, the teachers they involved or would involve and the tentative results. Second part of the meeting focused on the format of identifying learing goals of each partner country. After a long discussion partners agreed that defining the needs from local perspective was the key to be used. Each country will prepare a report based on the European and local levels.
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