GENERAL INFORMATION
 

Project title
 

Establishing an ecosystem for improving capacities in teachers for developing digital content and skills

Priority area
 

Education

Beneficiary

Ministry of National Education

Implementing Partner
 

UNICEF

Duration

January 2023 – January 2026

EU contribution (Euro)

3.700.000 (+50.000 euros UNICEF co-funding)

PROJECT SUMMARY

Brief description of the project and main objectives
 

The project aims at developing a flexible, transparent, innovative and quality based education system which supports social and economic development and equips individuals with the qualifications needed for employment, where all segments of society find the possibility to learn with their own needs.

The main objective of the action is to strengthen the education system through improving national institutional capacity to provide quality digital education in Turkey including resilience to shocks like Covid-19.

Location

Türkiye

Achievements / expected outputs

In order to improve teacher capacity and establish a strong digital education ecosystem indicative type of planned activities can be listed as follows:

1. Studies to be conducted and reports to be prepared:

- Systematic literature review: To explore how the use of digital technology for teaching and learning can support teachers, administrators, parents, students in improving learning outcomes and to determine their thematic relevance and the strength of the evidence they present.

- Policy review report: to help education authorities to strengthen their education system and contribute to the development of its capacities in relation to both digital education and training.

- Teacher Needs Analysis Report: to understand the challenges teachers face with the implementation of digital education including successful adoption and sustained use.

- Impact Analysis Report: to analyse the impact of the interventions so as to inform policymaking.

2. Easy-to-use, scalable, and reliable digital teacher training (professional development) platform planned to be established and integrated into the existing Education Information Network (EBA) and a digital teacher learning monitoring system planned to be developed for monitoring and reporting.

3. A sustainable digital training module covering teachers, administrators and parents is planed to be developed consisting of teacher guidebooks, student guidebooks, parent handbooks that will be used as reference documents for relevant stakeholders.

4. Provision of various trainings to increased availability of teachers and other education personnel with digital skills like Training of Trainers, teacher trainings, eTwinning opportunities for teachers.

5. Communication and visibility activities planned to be conducted like seminars, conferences, press launch and developed visibility materials to increase public awareness and to ensure ownership and political commitment for the digital education interventions to be undertaken during the implementation.