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the EAQUALS Professional Profiling Grid: Exploring the Potential Richard Rossner, EAQUALS

the EAQUALS Professional Profiling Grid: Exploring the Potential Richard Rossner, EAQUALS. Background. Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) – six level scale EAQUALS’ collaboration with the Council of Europe EAQUALS-ALTE European Language Portfolio for learners, and e-ELP

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the EAQUALS Professional Profiling Grid: Exploring the Potential Richard Rossner, EAQUALS

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  1. the EAQUALS Professional Profiling Grid:Exploring the Potential Richard Rossner, EAQUALS

  2. Background • Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) – six level scale • EAQUALS’ collaboration with the Council of Europe • EAQUALS-ALTE European Language Portfolio for learners, and e-ELP • Need for a parallel scale for teaching competency across languages (Dublin 2004) • Developed by Brian North (Eurocentres) and Galya Mateva (OPTIMA, Bulgaria) as a framework for discussion and piloting • Work in progress, but now being applied in accreditation

  3. Complementary to: • European Profile for Language Teacher Education (Kelly M. & M. Grenfell 2004) http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/doc/profilebroch_en.pdf • The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages, EPOSTL (Newby D. et al 2006) http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/FTE/pdf/STPExtract.pdf

  4. Original aims, and applications so far • To provide a reference system for describing the teaching and educational management team across different schools • To generate fuller and easily interpretable information about the teaching team prior to school assessment or inspection • To form a basis for guidance materials on continuing professional development and for teacher recruitment

  5. Four main areas, and three main levels

  6. Current application - example

  7. Possible areas for further development Descriptors of language teachers’ and trainees’: • Language awareness and ability to deal with learner problems • Competence in learner awareness training • Ability to understand the nature of language learning • Competence in course design • Competence in setting teaching/learning objectives • Classroom management competence • Competence in assessing learner progress • Inter-cultural competence

  8. Potential other uses and applications As a framework of reference for: • designing and describing pre-service & in-service teacher training courses, their aims, level, content etc. • assessing whether trainee teachers have achieved the agreed aims of the course, and for designing their certificates • performance management of teachers, and deciding on continuous professional development (and/or for developing pay scales and a pay progression system) • assessing the teaching team, and forward planning • identifying competence gaps, and recruiting new teachers to fill them.

  9. New EAQUALS special interest project AIMS: • To consider the potential of the Grid, and convert it into a framework for teacher training and development • To compare it with the European Profile and EPOSTL • To decide what additions and further development is needed for EAQUALS purposes • To develop additional descriptors and sub-descriptors • To pilot by applying the framework to existing courses and participants.

  10. www.eaquals.org rrossner@eaquals.org

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