Benefits
Based on data from the 2023 monitoring report regarding the impact of the eTwinning action on Initial Teacher Education, the following benefits emerge.
Benefits for Higher Education Institutions:
The European action eTwinning:
- Contributes to the internationalization of Institutions and promotes their cross-border cooperation by creating eTwinning partnerships with other institutions, expanding the Erasmus+ network, and developing Erasmus+ projects.
- Reinforces the connection between Higher Education Institutions and schools by integrating eTwinning into students’ teaching practice within school settings.
- Cultivates a European identity for higher education institutions through recognition within the framework of eTwinning and the European Initial Teacher Education Award.
- Facilitating ongoing professional development and cooperation among themselves.
- Opportunity to work in multinational groups, using English as a common language.
- Participation of a larger number of individuals, overcoming travel restrictions.
- Providing opportunities to develop deeper connections with colleagues and student teachers.
- Sharing knowledge and resources with peers, gaining insights into different educational systems.
- Opportunity to experiment with innovative approaches and promote competences.
- Getting to know their current student teachers better, due to closer collaboration.
- Sustaining relationships with former student teachers who are now active teachers.
- Bridging the gap between theory and practice in university education.
- Contributing to the shift in teaching perspectives and improving communication and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills.
- Mentoring and tutoring student teachers during school placements.
- Providing an innovative way of teaching.
- Impacting their research interests by promoting interdisciplinary research and providing new research directions.
- Opportunity for an alternative, engaging, and interactive learning experience working with other students to create tangible results.
- Developing a student network in a cost-effective and green way, offering the benefits of international cooperation to students who cannot travel.
- Opportunity to collaborate with experienced professors and ambassadors, contributing to their professional development.
- Exchanging life experiences with other, older students, which influences their overall attitude toward higher education and the teaching profession.
- Improving their intercultural and digital skills through interaction with peers from other countries.
- Developing their pedagogical skills, mainly in cross-curricular teaching and competence-based approaches.
- Understanding various aspects of the teaching profession, providing new perspectives beyond traditional teaching.
- Familiarity with new instructional strategies and tools, contributing to a better understanding of the teaching profession.
- Positive impact on their motivation and increased attractiveness of the teaching profession by providing an alternative, innovative, and appealing approach to teaching.
- Promoting international cooperation and community practices, supporting their professionalism, and affect their feeling of readiness for teaching.