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www.dite.usz.edu.pl January 2023 issue # 1

A Warm Welcome

DITE - Diverse Internationalisation of Teacher Education WHAT?

WHY?

HOW?

Teacher Education in universities has remained one of the least internationalised subjects in higher education. Yet, teachers are expected to educate future generations to become global citizens.

DITE focuses on the element of internationalisation to increase capabilities of future teachers by sensitising TE students to international perspectives. DITE relies on internationalisation at home to develop a model of globalised teacher education through diverse internationalisation with a focus on students becoming teachers in upper secondary education.

We have gathered information about internationalisation of teacher education in our universities. It is a basis for the report and series of trainings for the teacher educators and for the students. We are going to present a model and guidelines for implementing DITE in other insitutions. Our DITE network will build on dissemination efforts.

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We are excited to present a first issue of our newsletter. We are going to communicate here news and updates and other significant information related to the DITE project.

Today you can read about the premise of the DITE project as well as have a sneak peek of our Report on the status quo of internationalisation of teacher education.

Have a good read!

newsletter Report on internationalisation of teacher education

education at all?

We have prepared a report that aims at answering that questions. That it is the first step towards discovering and designing a universal model and guidelines for implementing international components into education of the future teachers.

Our report consists of 3 sections: review of the literature on internationalisation of teacher education with a special focus on internationalisation at home; description of the national systems of teacher education in Poland, Portugal, and Spain that are very often mentioned as a main barrier to internationalisation; our research that was carried out at four universities depicting the current state of internationalisation teacher education at each of the institutions. and it shows a truly diverse landscape of concepts, conditions and people who navigate in this complex environment.

The most common first reaction of the respondents to a question about the definition of internationalisation of teacher education was mobility.

But when we go deeper, the attitude changes and internationalisation at home comes up. Even if this term is not used specifically, we can see that respondents intrinsically feel that IaH is the solution.

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What is a diverse internationalisation of teacher education?

What is internationalisation of teacher

Internationalisation of teacher education generally has positive connotations.

The only negative aspect mentioned is a risk of indoctrination. This is interesting in the context of de-Westernisation mentioned in the literature review and proves that people involved in teacher education are aware of potential risks and understand the responsibilities that education carries.

Internationalisation is described often in the context of cooperation and that is why they share some characteristics. Apart from abstract qualities such us cultural sharing, inclusion and respect for diversity or freedom, personal and professional development is mentioned as well. Our respondents understand that those values although very often spoken of, are hard to adhere to and require an effort.

The most prominent indicated issue is a rigid national system of teacher education. Each university is required to educate future teachers according to specific requirements that are set out in the national legislation. Students are prepared to become teachers in their home country and teach in their mother tongue.

A next concern very much connected to the education system is the labour market. Since countries operate within their national systems, students who take up teacher education plan their professional career in their home countries only. They know that their credentials are not transferable and they see little encouragement to engage in international undertakings.

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Despite all that, all respondents listed quite a lot of methods and elements that they experience while teaching and studying TE. Teacher educators underlined that those initiatives are usually bottom-up ideas and that a lot depends on drive and persistence of the individuals.

This is why institutional support is indicated as one of the most important enablers of internationalisation of teacher education.

Institutional plan for internationalisation and a specific study programme will help to inform and engage students and teacher educators.

The full report on the status quo of internationalisation of teacher education will be available in February 2023

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We would like you to share with us interesting examples of good practice in internationalisation of Teacher Education.

Collected case studies will be published in the digital repository and presented at the final conference in 2024.

If you haven't joined our network, you can do it now.

Our goal is to make internationalisation of Teacher Education a continuously developing theme in the higher education environment.

We are going to contact you from time to time and let you know about our seminars, conferences and other events or spin-off activities. You decide how much you want to be involved in DITE network.

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There are a few ways you can contribute to our project and become a part of the DITE team.

Upcoming events 20 June 2023, University of Szczecin, Poland DITE interim conference Registration opens soon

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www.dite.usz.edu.pl April 2023 issue # 2

Spring has come ... ... to Jasne Błonia, a city park where Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Szczecin is located.

DITE activities are budding like fresh green leaves. But we didn't snooze during the winter time. We have been quite busy with online sessions of the DITE training and then in March we met all together in Tarragona (URV) for the final on-site training.

We are ready to speak about the outcomes during the DITE conference in June 2023.

Photo: Filip Kacalski

TRAIN - the - TRAINER module DITE TTT module started on 24 January 2023 with four online sessions. We completed the task on 15 - 17 March 2023 at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona where the final 3-day-long training took place.

We have selected over 20 participants from 4 universities that are academic teachers who on a daily basis teach students of TE. The participants were required to have a good command of English, be ready to go on with DITE activities and prepare in-house trainings for students at their local universities.

The DITE TTT modules were led by specialists from the University of Szczecin, Adam Mickiewicz University, Rovira i Virgili University and Global Impact Institute.

We call them our master trainers

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newsletter The online modules were focused on different aspects of internationalisation: Internationalisation of Teacher Education Intercultural communication Intercultural classroom management Internationalisation of teaching and learning Inclusive internationalisation

All information; theoretical background and practical activities are being gathered now by our master trainers. Very soon we will make our DITE manual available to public.

The TTT partcipants are now working within their universities in order to prepare for in-house trainings for the students of TE. Since organization of teacher education is different in each university, the in-house trainings will have various forms but will be meet the following critieria: it is organised in the local language; at least 15 students of TE will partcipate in every HEI; training last between 8 and 10 hours; on-site format of the training; training sessions are completed by the end of December 2023 on-line focus group of the participating students takes place in January 2024.

Each of the local in-house training will be sumed up by the DITE inhouse manual - a local version of the DITE manual that is focused more on the country-specific aspects and is written in a local language.

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The onsite part of the training was mainly dedicated to hands-on experience.

Our participants learnt and discussed different ways and strategies that may be later used during the in-house trainings for TE students.

newsletter The DITE international conference It’s been over a year since we started our journey towards Diverse Internationalisation of Teacher Education. We are eager to share what we have learnt so far and invite you to join us in our adventure.

We are going to dive into Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan, as well as Czech and German teacher education system.

We are going to share presentations that speak

About internationalisation of teacher education Examples of projects and activities at higher education institutions from different countries.

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About teacher education Examples of joint international study programmes of teacher education.

About teachers Examples of schools and education systems that face diversity and internationalisation every day.

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We meet at the University of Szczecin in June 2023 to talk about what internationalisation really is and to look beyond mobility.

newsletter We have gathered speakers from differen European countries in order to fully present a diverse landscape of internationalisation of Teacher Education.

We are proud to introduce some of them:

a member of the Experts Council of Universities for Education and Integration of Migrants and Refugees. Adjunct at the University of Szczecin. She provides intercultural, cross-border and international projects for students, teachers, volunteers and refugees. She teaches subjects related to intercultural education and integration, migration and labour market.

Uwe Brandenburg holds a PhD (University of Bristol) and two master degrees. He is a Managing Director of the Global Impact Institute. Held and assoc. prof. at the University Rovira I Virgili and is a guest lecturer at the ESCP Berlin.

Published widely on internationalisation, his work focuses on impact and internationalisation in higher education for society.

Thiago Freires a researcher at the Observatory of Life in Schools and a full member of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto.

His research interests include schooling trajectories, teacher education and learning environments

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Collected case studies will be published in the digital repository and presented at the final conference in 2024.

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Our goal is to make internationalisation of Teacher Education a continuously developing theme in the higher education environment. We are going to contact you from time to time and let you know about our seminars, conferences and other events or spin-off activities. You decide how much you want to be involved in DITE network.

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www.dite.usz.edu.pl October 2023 issue # 3

We are back!

It’s been a busy summer. The DITE conference and partners meeting in Szczecin, video shoots, final touches to the DITE trainer’s manual, preparations for in-house trainings ...

The DITE conference

The DITE team presented the project and results we have produced so far.

The main focus of the conference was international practice in education and higher education institutions that leads to (formal and informal) teacher education and transformation of the institutions.

We were impressed with presentations given by our guests, representatives of: Nursery no 27, Szczecin ‘Maleńka Kraina' Nursery, Szczecin Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Faculty of Humanities, USZ Students of teacher education, USZ Nursery no. 18, Szczecin Primary School no. 10, Szczecin Nursery no. 67, Szczecin

Presentations and conference programme

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In Szczecin, on 20 June 2023, after almost two years of our journey towards Diverse Internationalisation of Teacher Education, we shared with wider crowd what we have learnt so far.

It was a great opportunity to meet with some of our DITE network members and discuss potential of future collaboration.

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Hear from the team

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A half way point of the project was marked by recording videos of our team.

They shared their ideas and thoughts on internationalisation of teacher education.

And to make it more diverse and accessible, they did it in different languages.

newsletter The DITE in-house trainings The purpose of the DITE in-house course is to empower future secondary education teachers and give them knowledge and tools that will make them become ambassadors of internationalisation and agents of social change in their environments.

Each University structures their course into various sessions depending on whether they are delivered online or in a classroom and depending on the local context and circumstances.

To maintain the nature of the training, every session should include interactive activities, building up to a final student project or presentation.

This presentation or student project, delivered by all participants at the end of the course, will be a way for students to commit to including internationalisation and the intercultural component into their future teaching at secondary schools.

The actual timetable of the course can be moulded around each institution. But a typical distribution of the sessions could be as follows:

Session 1: Introduction of objectives + presentations of participants & ice-breaking activity Sessions 2: What is internationalisation and what are its global trends (present and future)?

Session 3: What is intercultural communication?

Session 4: What is inclusive internationalisation?

Session 5: Internationalisation of teaching and learning Session 6: Presentation by participants on their future vision to implement international and intercultural components into their future teaching.

The DITE in-house trainings will be delivered between October 2023 and February 2024 at all partner Universities, They will be followed by the focus group that will provide feedback necessary for creating guidelines and general model of the training.

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The in-house trainings are delivered by the academic teachers who took part in the trainthe-trainer sessions.

newsletter Get involved!

Join the DITE network!

Our goal is to make internationalisation of Teacher Education a continuously developing theme in the higher education environment. We are going to contact you from time to time and let you know about our seminars, conferences and other events or spinoff activities.

Read our Report on Internationalisation of Teacher Education

Have a look at the DITE trainer’s manual

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Share with us interesting examples of good practice in internationalisation of Teacher Education.

Collected case studies will be published in the digital repository and presented at the final conference in 2024.

Early 2024!

Local seminars in Poland, Portugal and Spain Open on-line seminar for everyone

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www.dite.usz.edu.pl December 2023 issue # 4

It’s been two years already!

The DITE project officially started in November 2021.

As the year draws to a close, we look back at all activities that we have organized so far.

We are getting ready for 2024 when all actions will be completed and ready to be disseminated.

It’s been exciting journey so far but we are not

Cheers to the next year filled with incredible accomplishments and personal victories!

November 2021

Meanwhile, let us take you down the memory lane with some exciting announcements at the end of that issue.

January 2022

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done yet!

Is there a good project without a proper delay?

November 2021

We start shrouded in autumn (and COVID) fog, and since there is still not many options for us to meet, we decide to take care of the papers first, and go on with inperson activities later.

Things are looking up!

January 2022

We organized a pre-kick off online meeting to adjust timeline of the project to COVID delays and plan an actual meeting in person.

Kick-off!

February 2022

It’s been a first international travel since pandemic started for many of us.

We meet with our faces covered with masks and stream the meeting online since not everyone can make it.

The DITE seed is sown!

Szczecin, Poland

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newsletter Full steam ahead!

Our teams are working on report on internationalization of teacher education. We meet online to talk about the task division and methodology of our research.

April 2022

Porto, Portugal Before holidays start!

It’s time to follow-up on the results of our research, work on the structure of the report and script of the interviews that we will conduct after the summer break.

June 2022

Poznań, Poland Spread the wings!

November 2022

We are diving deep into the project activities. As the work on the report is being finalized, we design a framework for the DITE Train-the-Trainer activities.

newsletter What a month!

A lot of things is happeninig right now. The DITE newsletter is launched and online modules of the DITE training are in progress.

January 2023

Here it is!

February 2023

Our report on internationalisation of teacher education. We are proud of it.

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Tarragona, Spain It’s training time!

March 2023

Online modules are completed.

Now over 20 participants pack their bags and go to sunny Catalonia for the on-site part of the training.

newsletter We are half way through!

The DITE conference is a success despite overwhelming heat. We also take time to sum up our thoughts on diverse internationalisation of teacher education.

June 2023

Szczecin, Poland

Autumn is always busy!

September 2023

Academic teachers who participated in the DITE training are working on the in-house trainings for their students.

Meanwhile, the first local seminar about The DITE project is taking place.

Poznań, Poland

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October 2023

The DITE trainer’s manual is published. Just have a look and draw some inspiration.

Meanwhile, academic teachers who prepare in-house trainings for their TE students meet online to ask questions and share ideas.

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It’s training time again!

November 2023

A series of in-house trainings for students of teacher education has begun and they will be completed in March 2024.

newsletter DITE R A N I M E S ONLINE

Overview of training objectives and internationalization in teacher education; DITE Manual and training materials; Impact assesment and training results measurements; DITE trainer experience and good practice

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