Summer Academy Description:

Inspiring Innovation in European Language Teacher Education

4–8 July 2022
ECML, Graz, Austria

The key aim of the Summer Academy is the upskilling of teacher educators working in the field of languages, so that they, in turn, can support the professional development of teachers to respond to the complex linguistic needs of today’s learners.

Focussing on developments at the cutting edge of language education as reflected in the ECML thematic areas, and drawing on input from experienced teacher educators and internationally renowned experts, the programme will provide participants with opportunities to pool their expertise with colleagues from across Europe and to reflect on and re-think their own modes of teacher education from a transnational perspective.

The Summer Academy will focus on current issues in language-related teacher education and on topics relating to the principles of the Council of Europe and European Commission language policies.

Participant Profile

Professional background:

Nominees should fulfill at least one of the professional roles indicated in the participant profile and should be in active employment in one of the EU/ECML member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the additional member states of the ECML: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Switzerland).

Applicants should be residents of member states of the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) and/or the European Union.

Participants at the Summer Academy will be teacher educators working in the field of language education. The role(s) they play may include:

higher education staff (lecturers, teacher trainers, etc.) involved in initial language-related teacher education
supervisors of practice in schools; inspectors
mentors who supervise prospective language teachers during the qualifying phase
experienced teachers or higher education staff involved in in-service professional development activities in the field of language education
teacher educators involved in language education research
leaders of language teacher associations

Applicants may be experienced teacher educators or those who are in the early stages of their career. However, in all cases they should show a high degree of commitment to teacher education; for example, they are, or aspire to be, involved in innovative projects, action-research, reform processes, by carrying out a coordinating function etc. They should have the capacity or potential to disseminate the information and insights they gain at the Summer Academy and to initiate post-event measures that will feed into teacher education at an institutional and, preferably, regional or national level.

Working languages will be English and French. Participants should have at least C1 proficiency in one of these languages. Simultaneous interpretation between these languages will be available.

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