Teaching Tools Database in KeyCoNet Catalogue of Initiatives 2014
- Published on Tuesday, 06 May 2014 11:40
KeyCoNet, European policy network focused on identifying and analysing initiatives on the implementation of key competences in primary and secondary school education, chose for its Catalogue of Initiatives 2014 IBE Teaching Tools Database developed by the experts of the Educational Research Institute working within Education Enthusiasts project. The detailed description of Teaching Tools Database was published separately as Teaching Tools Database - Case study.
KeyCoNet 
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KeyCoNet, in collaboration with the European Commission selects each year a number of key competences projects or activities conducted in the EU member states with a view to wider implementation in education and research institutions. In 2014 Teaching Tools Database (part of Good Practice Database) was selected to appear in the Catalogue of Initiatives 2014. The Teaching Tools Database is a project aimed at teachers, pupils and parents - includes tasks and descriptions of good practice in education. The tasks presented in the database can be used while working on developing key competences such as communication in the mother tongue, communication in foreign languages, mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology as well as critical thinking, problem solving, interpretation, argument.
.Transformation of the school network in the years 2007-2012
- Published on Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:26
A report summarising the transformation of the school network in the years 2007-2012 was presented today by IBE researchers. In 2007-2012 local governments closed nearly a thousand schools.
Jan Herczyński, PhD, and Aneta Sobotka presenting the report "Diagnosis of the changes in the network of primary and secondary schools in Poland, 2007-2012."
At the confrence in IBE, Jan Herczyński, PhD, and Aneta Sobotka presented the results of their study "Diagnosis of the changes in the network of primary and secondary schools in Poland, 2007-2012." The report is the first of its kind in Poland. The press conference was opened by Michał Sitek, PhD, Deputy Director for Research at IBE.
Danish experience in reforming the education system
- Published on Sunday, 09 February 2014 10:26
From teaching how to memorize facts through reasoning to developing civic skills - a Euroclio expert discussed the changes in the education of young Danes during a seminar at IBE. Nowadays the final, national written gymnasium examination in Danish language and literature even contains a possibility for teachers and students to choose an examination form that depends on access to the Internet during the examination.
Benny Christensen during the seminar at IBE
Polish lower secondary school students foreign language skills are worse than their European peers'
- Published on Tuesday, 22 October 2013 02:36
Polish lower secondary school students foreign language competences are worse than those of their peers in Europe. This is the main conclusion of the European Survey on Language Competences carried out in 2011. IBE published the Polish country report of the ESLC study.
ESLC in Poland: English and German
