ATEE Annual Conference 2010
26 August t/m 30 August 2010
From 26 to 30 August 2010 the 35th Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe was held in Budapest, Hungary. This conference was hosted by the Association of Hungarian Teacher Educators in co-operation with the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and the Eszterházy Károly College of Eger.
Under the conference title ‘Responsibility, Challenge and Support in Teachers’ Life-long Professional Development’ the conference programme focused on the lifelong learning and continuous professional development of teachers and the role of pre-service and in-service teacher education. The choice of this conference theme was motivated by the awareness that initial teacher education is not sufficient to guide a teacher’s lifelong career and performance.
Lifelong professional development is an essential condition for providing education of high quality to pupils and students in the schools inside and outside Europe.
Input for the conference was provided by ATEE’s policy statements on the quality of teachers (ATEE, 2006), on schools in the 21st century (ATEE, 2007) and the previous work of the research and development centers, but also by policy documents on the European level (like the Conclusions of the European Council on improving the quality of teacher educators (2007) and professional development of teachers and school leaders (2009), the outcomes of the Teaching and Learning International Survey TALIS 2009 and the reports of the Commission’s Thematic Working Group on Professional Development of Teachers).
During the conference 250 teacher educators and researchers from 56 countries discussed issues concerning lifelong professional development of teachers through exchanges of experiences, good practice, strategies and outcomes of research.
The theme of the conference was elaborated in an opening sessions with key stakeholders in the Hungarian educational system, through keynotes with well-recognized experts from Russia, Hungary, the United States and The Netherlands , in parallel sessions, with more than 175 research papers, workshops, round tables and symposia and in thematic working sessions of ATEE’s 14 Research and Development Centers.
This created a wide variety of perspectives on the theme of lifelong professional development of teachers.
The CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE are now available. These conclusions and recommendations summarize the academic contributions and lively debates during the conference in a number of key messages and recommendations which need to be addressed by policy makers, teacher education institutions, teacher educators, teachers, school leaders, researchers and other relevant stakeholders.
The presentations have been published in the conference website.
The conference theme is
Responsibility, Challenge and Support in Teachers' Life-long Professional Development
More information on the conference theme can be found at the conference website.
Early registration with a reduced fee is possble until 15 June 2010.
Registration forms can be found at the conference website.
Schedule
The details of the conference program can be found at the conference website.
The conference will take place at the Danubius Hotel Flamenco in Budapest, Hungary.
More information can be found on the conference website.