Wondering how to develop social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness (SEDA competences) in teachers and other school staff? We have a training program for you!
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Hand in Hand Empowering Teachers Programme, the main outcome of the HAND:ET project is now available. Learn more!

The Hand in Hand: Empowering Teachers programme, the main outcome of the HAND:ET project is available now! After almost three years of hard work that included literature reviews, program development, Training of the Trainers, implementation of the program in five countries (Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden), impact study and a lot more activities, we are ready to share with you the Hand in Hand: Empowering Teachers - A training programme to develop social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness in teachers and other school staff.

This program is developed for the trainers committed to the continuous professional development of teachers and educators and it is tailored to foster the development of social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness (SEDA competencies).

Basis of the programme are mindfulness practices, dialogue exercises, active listening exercises, exercises developing personal language, diversity-targeted exercises, group and pair work as well as individual exercises. It also features the theory sections, providing context and connecting theoretical concepts to practical exercises.

Moreover, the programme recognizes the diverse contexts of training and empowers trainers to modify explanations based on their country's specific nuances. It encourages trainers to prioritize participant needs, allowing for deviations from suggested timelines.

It is important to emphasise that this programme targets the teachers, and the training is focused on developing social and emotional competencies, as well as the diversity awareness (SEDA) of the teachers. This in-service programme is to be seen as teacher professional development, meaning there will be no expectation that the teachers should take the exercises presented into their classroom. It is expected that the children will be indirectly affected by the teachers’ developing competencies that will enable them to act differently and give them more options for coping with the complexity and the challenges in their everyday life.

In summary, this programme is not a rigid prescription but a flexible tool, enabling trainers to tailor professional development experiences to their specific contexts. It reflects the understanding that effective teaching requires continuous adaptation and individualized approaches.

English version of the program is available here, and make sure to stay tuned for the versions in Croatian, German, Portuguese, Slovenian and Swedish as well!

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Feb. 27, 2024

In the sixth and final HAND:ET Newsletter we are sharing with you news and updates from the final stage of the HAND:ET project. Find out more in the article!

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Feb. 26, 2024

The HAND: Empowering Teachers (HAND:ET) initiative has developed comprehensive guidelines to upscale its program across the EU and beyond. Check them out!

Empowering Educators Across Europe – Experimentation Perspectives
Feb. 25, 2024

We present to you the key ideas and findings of a HAND:ET project, integrating the insights of a wide range of stakeholders. This book is our way of experimentally showing how the SEDA of teachers across Europe can be supported!

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Feb. 24, 2024

In this interview with Iva Perković from Network of Education Policy Centers (NEPC), HAND:ET partner responsible for wide dissemination of HAND: Empowering Teachers outcomes and findings and encouraging upscaling of the HAND: Empowering Teachers system, we will discuss the recognition of SEDA competencies in the NEPC region, on the policy level and within the membership as well as the sustainability of the HAND:ET core concepts.

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Feb. 22, 2024

Learn more about final national dissemination event in Slovenia.