BEST PRACTICE

The COVID 19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on our lives and, inevitably, also on our way of planning training.

Most training institutions have been able to adjust course administration, student assignments and assessment without great difficulty. The necessary technology was already present but students and teachers were often not comfortable using ICT technologies for daily activities and in the classroom. The same was true of a number of other schools and training providers across Europe.

Some schools, teachers, training providers, individuals and students were better prepared for this change and have acted quickly and adapted to the global pandemic. In this way, schools have been able to cope with the closure of physical classrooms and switch to distance and online teaching quite easily courses. Many or most educational institutions were ill-prepared or not prepared at all. It took them a long time to adjust their education to new circumstances. This is especially true for vocational schools which provide education and training, art and music courses, physical education and training, courses for seniors, courses for people with disabilities, rural communities, education for groups prone to social exclusion, minorities and disabled students. The BEST EDU project aims to collect good and innovative practices from European education promoters and trainers and how they have adapted their schools, education, training and teaching activities to the global COVID pandemic. By assembling true stories of education and training providers at all levels, we seek to create a collection of proven responsive methods for dealing with possible future situations in which schools, teachers and students have to adapt, change and react to uncontrollable external forces. This will also give us the opportunity to look into the possibilities of learning from pioneers in this field and look for ways to implement good and innovative practices in different fields and levels of education. The objectives of the project will be the collection and dissemination of these practices, the development and delivery of training seminars, as well as the organization and testing of new approaches where teachers and trainers implement these practices within their fields of instruction.

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