Teacher training: INTEF

Hello friends!

I want to introduce you an incredible tool for teachers. Well, really it can be used by all the people that love teaching… but mainly it is a professional training. 

I will speak you about INTEF, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado, from the Spanish Ministry of Education. It is the responsible of Information and Communication Technology for non-university educational stages. 

INTEF: http://educalab.es/intef

I started to know INTEF and all their teacher training programs in AULA 2018. Then, on Tuesday 24th of April, I have heard more information in a webinar called Mobile learning and digital competence of education. . 

Webinar (web-based seminar) is a presentation or workshop that is transmitted over the web using video conferencinf software. A key feature of a Webinar is it is interactive, because it has a chat to discuss and make questions to the lecturer. Using webinar software participants can share audio, documents and applications with the webinar attendees. This is useful when the webinar host is conducting a lecture or information session. While the presenter is speaking they can share desktop applications and documents. Today, many webinar services offer live streaming options or the ability to record your webinar and publish it later. 

In this case, it was the University of Barcelona who offers the webinar. It was an activity into a Digital competence and lerning experience Postgrade, but it was open for all the people . María Jesús García San Martín, my Master degree ICT teacher, who carried out.

María Jesús García. S. M. (blog): http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/p/about.html  

INTEF offers us a lot of tools and information about ICT, as articles, blog, information and teacher training. In this point, they have a lot of possibilities. 

AprendeINTEF is the section where you can discover all the online teacher training options. The main goal is to improve the digital competence of the teachers. They say that our digital competence is a puzzle and it is necessary to fit the pieces. To get that, you can find different ways of training and diversity of topics.

There are a lot of options to train so it is a great factor because each teacher can choose which want to according to their possibilities of schedules, interest, etc. The mains ways to do training are:

EduPills: self-learning. You have to spend around three to seven minutes to improve your digital competence in one point. You can do in each place while you are waiting something. This is the only way of training that you need de app.

NoocIntef: Nano massive open online courses. Over three hours of duration. You can improve you teaching digital competence with courses as digital tools; share online; or classroom blog as collaborative tool.

MoocIntef: Massive open online courses. There are extensive courses where, to share your learning, you have to create a learning journal. There are courses as gamification; learning based projects; or visual thinking. 

They have other options as SpoocIntef, self-paced open online course, that it is an experimental way of learning base in the autonomous content managements, or EnAbierto, where you can read or consult a lot of courses in the moment that you need it.

This type of courses, in general, are:

• Open.
• Massive.
• Learning between pairs.
• With a person to support.
• You can use the content always that you need it.
• If you pass the course, you can get the digital badge.

AprendeINTEF not only offer us the formation. Moreover, they have the Portfolio for the Digital Competence of Teachers. This portfolio has the main goal to promote acquisition, development and improvement of the teacher´s digital competence through self-evaluation and the updatable record of teaching, learning and training experiences. There are six levels of Digital competence, from A1 to C2. The learning is working, mainly, to develop five areas into the into the common framework of digital compentece teaching:

1. Information and data literacy.
2. Communication and collaboration.
3. Digital content creation.
4. Safety
5. Problem solving.

The portfolio fixs as a backpack where you can put inside your digital badges, as evidences. To do the portfolio you have to login in the webpage, add you data and you evidences to get an accreditation level of your teaching digital competence.

Finally, I want to show you my personal reflection about this topic. I feel that the teacher´s training it is very important. The society is changing every day, and we need to give the students the answers that they need in each moment. Not only the answers about the content, the answers about their life, the values to built their personality, and help them in the process of maturity. Thanks to the webinar and the kind of courses that INTEF offer us, teachers and people with interest on Education can improve their knowledge in a different ways.

Thanks to this webinar I have learned about the digital competence of teachers. I had created a lot of digital resources to support my lessons for a long time, but after than use it, I forget them or I kept them for other courses. But I never was consciously that, each new digital tool that I used and each digital activity that I created, it was learning for me. And now, I can accredit this learning and my digital achievements to get recognition about my teaching digital competence. It can be very important for my future.  

Nowadays, I think so, teachers have to adapt to their students. And also, fortunately, this type of online training adapts to us. 

Don´t worry… improve your teaching!

Don´t worry… create your portfolio!

Don´t worry… teach happy!