Exploring the second workshop topic “21st century teacher skills” together with Anne, Jelle and Ronja

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11/11/2022
Posted by: MOTIVATE students

Exploring the second workshop topic "21st century teacher skills" together with Anne, Jelle and Ronja

The second workshop of the MOTIVATE! program focused on 21st century teacher skills. In that respect, we were introduced to the OECD Learning Compass, a project which aims to identify the competence students will need in the future to thrive and shape the world. In doing so, it is helping countries with exploring and identifying values, skills, knowledge and attitudes students will need to meet their potential and contribute to both the planet and their local communities.

As future teachers, identifying the competence that is crucial for our students to inhabit in the future is vitally important. Being aware of this will help teachers with shaping their teaching around these skills and competences, to make sure the students acquire them.

During our last house session, we shared ideas about what we think the future would be like, and what we should focus on as teachers to help prepare our pupils for it.

A lot of the things we discussed were the same things highlighted in the OECD Learning Compass. For example, the importance of fostering creativity, social skills, and digital competences, to name a few. In our tandems we then had the task to think about it and discuss the concept.

Fortunately, since we were all studying in the same country, we met at the university for this. We spent our time not only talking about our tasks. Moreover, we just had a really nice time together! Drinking coffee, talking about our teacher education programs, sharing experiences and getting travel tips. That’s what the MOTIVATE program is also all about: Meeting new people and exchanging ideas.

Anne, Jelle, Ronja

"In a diverse world, my thoughts should also be diverse, and I have only achieved this by exchanging ideas with people whose thoughts and experiences enrich me. Through the exchange at MOTIVATE! I have come up with completely new thoughts and developed new ideas for myself as a future teacher and also as a person. Celebrating the now of education and having courage and visions for the later is what I have found for myself this year."

Sophie Beer

Student at TU Berlin and former MOTIVATE! student

"MOTIVATE! is a great opportunity if you want to think outside the box as a teacher student. You get to know facets of the teaching profession together with international students, make contacts and form friendships. It really is a good first step if you want to engage with education internationally!"

Jelle Oellrich

Student at TU Berlin, former MOTIVATE! student and exchange student at NTNU

"In any case, it is very valuable to get to know a different culture of teaching. The interaction with lecturers and students in Norway is more on an equal footing, so you get the impression that you are working on something together instead of just solving an impersonal task to generate points. A personal project is created."

Dag-Maximilian Dannehl

Student at TU Berlin and former exchange student at NTNU

"MOTIVATE! provides students with distinct benefits as they develop acceptance for cultural diversity, self-confidence, initiative and curiosity through cross-cultural learning."

Katrine Dalbu Alterhaug

Head of Internationalization at the Teacher Department at NTNU

"Move it again, MOTIVATE! and lets be creative and constructive with all we learned during the pandemic…"

Prof. Markus Cslovjecsek

Project Coordinator at PH FHNW

"MOTIVATE! enables students to freely exchange thoughts and ideas on relevant topics while also gaining important intercultural skills and knowledge."

Lina Schmidt

Student and staffmember of MOVE IT! at TU Berlin

“In the world today, schools can only succeed with an international approach: the diversity of pupils in Berlin and elsewhere, the social and technological challenges of the future, all this is globally and locally connected and we need a reflexive, well-informed and open-minded view across any borders.”

Prof. Dr. Susann Fegter

Director of the School of Education SETUB