2020-07-10 15:14:48

PROFFORMANCE expert kick-off meeting

PROFFORMANCE Expert kick-off meeting  

PROFFORMANCE experts and partner representatives came together on the 23th June 2020 to prepare the first activities of PROFFORMANCE project.

Before the project start there already has been a preparatory meeting for experts, when they could introduce themselves and they could get an overview on project details, activities, working methodology, so on the kick-off professional work could be started immediately.

The main lead experts Vilmos Vass and János Ollé from Hungary prepared the platforms and the methodology using the inputs of PROFFORMANCE experts on their experience, views, motivation, and they also revised the literatures, researches, best practices collected by all experts.

After a short introductory presentation and common brainstorming, experts have been divided into breaking-out rooms, where they collected their views on teachers' assessment on an online mind-map. 

In the second part Günter Wageneder, Austrian expert gave an overview of the state of the art in the field of teaching and learning and teachers' assessment examining the literature collected by the PROFFORMANCE experts, and he also introduced the concept of the benchmarking activity. Afterwards Ruaidhri Neavyn from Ireland, presented Irish best practices at national and institutional level relevant to PROFFORMANCE project. Experts discussed state of the art and best practices in two break-out rooms with facilitation of the presenters.

In the third part two rapporteurs Queenie Lam (ACA) and Mirko Savic from Serbia summarised findings, and Renata Samo from Croatia presented the Handbook for Teaching Competence enhancement in higher education, the result of EDUCA-T project conducted by Croatia.

Finally experts discussed how to organise the first PLA in the most efficient way, and an overview was given about the common knowledge and experience collected before and during the discussions.