• Publishing Information
• Preface
• Giving Voice(S) to Professionalism and Citizenship in School Networking
• The VoiceS Network
• What is a European Teacher?
• European Dimension and European Professionalism
• Reporting European school projects in a collaborative way
• The VoiceS In-Service Courses
• In-Service Course Graz: Outline
• In-Service Course Graz: Course Evaluation
• VoiceS in the Primary teacher education course at the University of Milano Bicocca
• European Dance & Song Book
• European Dance & Song Book - Project Overview
• TuNeCa Turkey
• TuNeCA the Netherlands
• TuNeCa Catalonia
• A Day in the Life of ...
• A Day in the Life of ... - Project Overview
• De Regenboog - The Netherlands
• El Turó - Spain
• Els Pinetons - Spain
• Escola Básica de Penafiel Sudeste - Portugal
• Özel Tan Okulları - Turkey
• Authors
• Anmaç Çağlar
• Ayşe Tomas
• Barbaro Ida
• Biosca Núria
• Castellano Mari Luz
• Cretella Elvira
• Gonzalez Carolina
• Haalboom Maarten
• Holz Oliver
• Kavuncu Tuba
• Langkamp-Waanders Hester
• Linhofer Susanne
• Oude Maatman Henny
• Sorte Antonio
• Smeets Rosemary
• Vogl Heiko
• Yilmaz Büsra
• Appendix
• Written mention
• Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0)

The VoiceS In-Service Courses

Maria Villanueva (UUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, VoiceS In-Service Course Coordinator)

VOICES of European Teachers Network offers students, teachers, primary and secondary schools, teacher trainers, researchers and others interested in education, opportunities for contact, exchanges, cooperative projects, and on-going learning and sharing. Collaboration and reflection are essential learning practices therefore. In-service professional development courses are offered periodically and as a result teachers regularly start their own projects in schools.
The course was addressed mainly to school professionals teaching from 8 to 14 years of age but open to other educational staff (such as early childhood, headteachers..) It was conceived as an intensive staff-development training on the specific competences of a 'European teacher', promoting teachers' mobility by making them aware of their key role as a multiplier of the European dimension in their own schools. The course provided a space to exchange ideas and to learn from each other, while their benefiting from the participation in a diverse group of experienced teacher trainers from different European countries.

The specific objectives of the course were:

• to reflect on personal practices in the light of the EU Key Competences
• to deepen understanding of concepts such culture, identity and diversity
• to work in multinational groups and to experience the European dimension of teaching
• to become teachers informed about international collaborative learning projects
• to gain technical and practical know-how on project development and ICT tools for school networking addressed to to the creation of educational links at European level
• to develop strategies to carry out the projects
• to learn about and explore school practices in another European country
• to meet and interact with local teachers

The course was based on blended learning methodology, using a Moodle platform, combining online and six, one day face-to-face sessions where participants took part in multiple learning activities: reading circles, hands-on workshops, seminars, round tables, group work, guided cultural visits, school experiences and empirical international project planning. All sessions were accompanied by trainers and experts from different countries to enrich the perspectives on various related issues.

Once the face-to-face sessions were concluded, teachers (organised in international groups) implemented a collaborative project for their own schools. They then shared, analysed and wrote up their results, including visual evidence within a maximum period of 3 months. These projects are presented in this e-book, with the presentation and comments of the teachers involved.