HAND:ET is committed to destigmatising stress and mental health in the teaching profession so that we can create a nurturing environment for both educators and students. Learn more about the stress, how it affects teachers and what can be done about it.

HAND:ET partners from UNI Graz presented collaborative action research model that can support teachers in responding to learners’ diversity in the classrooms.

Learn more about Inclusive Inquiry - participatory method focused on making the lessons as inclusive as possible for all students and supporting their voice.

HAND:ET Consortium is continuing to raise awareness and explore the topics and key concepts for supporting teachers’ well-being and developing their socio-emotional competences and diversity awareness (SEDA).

In the fifth HAND:ET Newsletter we are sharing with you news and updates on the recent project activities. Find out more in the article!

Teachers are working in increasingly diverse classrooms which makes their profession complex, diverse, and dynamic. We have developed RSA video that elaborates why supporting teachers’ development of social and emotional competencies as well as their diversity awareness (SEDA) in the initial and in-service teacher education is important in order to address this challenge.

On March 15th, the Inclusive Education Network of the Austrian province Styria held one of its quarterly network meetings, which bring together educators and representatives of various institutions in the area of inclusive education.

While there is a decrease in number of teachers entering the teaching profession and teachers are leaving the profession early, HAND:ET Consortium takes every opportunity to raise the awareness on the importance of supporting teachers well-being and empowering them for the social, emotional and diversity related career challenges.

Supporting teachers’ well-being and empowering them for the complex and diverse reality and challenges they are facing on the daily basis is getting more spotlight in the educational discussions.

HAND:ET partners from ISRZ – Institute for Social Research in Zagreb presented the theoretical and empirical viewpoints connected with teacher well-being, putting the special emphasis on the well-being of early-career teachers who are especially in risk of developing adverse outcomes in their first years of service.

Read the interview with Iris Marušić and Jelena Matić Bojić from Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (ISRZ), HAND:ET partner leading the theoretical overview of the core concepts important for supporting teacher socio-emotional competencies and/or well-being as well as the implementation of the HAND: ET program in Croatia.

Supporting the teacher well-being: Key for the prevention of teacher burnout and drop-out from the profession

From February 2nd to 3rd, 2023, the First International Conference of Teachers’ Continuous Education (ICTCE) took place in Aveiro, Portugal.

In the fourth HAND:ET Newsletter we are sharing with you news and updates on the recent project activities. Find out more in the article!

The Aventura Social team at the University of Lisbon is implementing the HAND: ET project in schools across Portugal.

HAND:ET project partner leading the implementation of the HAND:ET Program in schools in Croatia is Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (ISRZ).

The HAND IN HAND: Empowering Teachers programme is currently being implemented in Slovenia by HAND:ET Project Coordinator Educational Research Institute (ERI).

HAND:ET project partner leading the implementation of the HAND:ET Program in schools in Sweden is Mid Sweden University (MIUN).

From October 10th to 14th, 2022, the Board of Education Styria, another Austrian partner in the HAND:ET-project, invited various representatives from the fields of mental health and education from France, the Czech Republic, Poland and the Netherlands to a working meeting in Graz, Austria.

HAND:ET partners from DIPF - Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education presented different ways to assessment of SE competencies and diversity awareness and discussed the challenges associated with the different techniques.