Courses for over 240.000 teachers and 90.000 between ATA and managers
Online training courses, webinars, videos on innovative teaching methods and on the use of technologies in teaching, but also in the management of administrative activities.
With the "Formare al Futuro" program, the training of school staff (teachers, ATA, managers) starts from digital, with the aim of capitalizing and enhancing the experiences and skills gained in the closing months of schools, with teaching and remote working activities. But also to look to the future and modernization of the school system, also from an administrative point of view.
The training courses have started in these days and will continue throughout the next school year and until December 2021. The catalog of courses dedicated to teachers is extensive: artificial intelligence, use of apps and e-learning platforms in teaching, digital citizenship . These are just some examples of the courses available already these days.
In the initial phase of the activities, starting as early as this month of July, Future Labs, the innovation centers set up in 28 state schools throughout Italy, which, already during the first months of the health emergency, will play a fundamental role. have had great importance in the training of over 37.000 teachers on digital and distance learning in just 3 months.
The training plan of the Future Labs will be based on three guidelines: systemisation of the digital skills of the teachers, with targeted paths and within the European framework of reference "DigCompEDU" (divided into 6 areas of competence and 6 levels of mastery); enhancement of the digital skills of school managers and staff figures; support for the digitalization of school administrations, with courses for Administrative, Technical and Auxiliary staff (ATA) and for the Directors of General and Administrative Services (DSGA). The delivery of the first courses will take place between July and September 2020.
With the return to school, after the "pilot" phase is over, the courses will continue to be valid both on PON funds and on national funds for the digital school, from October 2020 until December 2021, with a training program for over 240.000 teachers. on digital skills and innovative teaching methods. While 90 thousand between school managers and ATA will be trained in the digital transition and digitalization of processes (DS and ATA) and for administrative-accounting training (ATA). The staff pathways will embrace a broad spectrum of themes connected with innovative processes in schools: leadership for digital innovation, data protection in digital teaching, management of collegial meetings by videoconference, reorganization of school work with the use of digital, cloud sharing in school secretaries.