Towards a stronger and appealing academic teacher education.

This project is aimed at strengthening and supporting the university teacher education programmes in the transition to the new teacher training courses, as described in the draft memorandum "Strengthening teacher education courses: recruiting and qualitative teacher training courses as a basic pillar for high-quality education" of 25 March 2016 and the draft decree on the development of graduate courses within colleges and transfer measures for teacher training, as first approved in principle by the Flemish Government on 14 July 2017.Based on the above-mentioned documents and the objectives of the Coalition Agreement of the Flemish Government 2014-2019 and its objective of high-quality, flexible and attractive teacher training courses, three actions are proposed. These actions fit in with the following thematic lines: 'strengthening and innovation' (theme 1) and 'recruitment' (theme 2).1. 'Strengthening and innovating teacher education programmes':a. Action 1: Project 'Towards a new university teacher education at masters level'.b. Action 2: Project 'How can this new master-level university teacher education programme best serve the target group of lateral entry teachers'?2. Recruitment': Action 3: 'Towards recruiting university teacher education programmes': Communication and publication of the new programme with candidate teachers and the professional field, with a specific focus on student diversity.

Keywords:TEACHER TRAINING

Disciplines:Education curriculum, Education systems, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Specialist studies in education, Other pedagogical and educational sciences