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Doris VasconcellosAssociate Professor
University of Paris Descartes
During the next five yearsall European countries will experience
a major turnover of faculties.This is a unique opportunity
to coordinate the training of new faculty all over Europe
European Context
A short story…
United KingdomAnnie Trapp
Higher Education Academy Psychology Network
http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/
European CommunityEuropean Community grants for grants forThematic Networks:
Lifelong Learning Program
First meeting:
Royal Holloway College, London
10 and 11 August 2007
4 United Kingdom2 France1 Holland1 Austria1 Sweden1 Czech Republic
EUROPLAT steering committee
Austria BulgariaCyprus Czech Republic
France Germany Holland ItalyLithuania PolandPortugal RomaniaSlovenia SpainUnited Kingdom
Luxemburg, Hungary, Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Greece
Fifteen countries represented:
Ten others to be contacted:
Second Meeting
Villa Finaly, Florence
30 January, 1 & 2 February, 2008
• Define and promote innovative teaching methods.
• Identify pedagogical resources and make them available to the network members.
• Develop procedures to evaluate teaching methods and results.
• Award a certification of teaching training for graduate students.
• Extend jobs opportunities for psychology graduate students.
• Propose symposia on teaching psychology at all international conferences on psychology so as to make researchers and professionals aware of teaching methodologies: ICP Berlin July
2008, Oslo 2009
• Establish an annual EUROPLAT Summer School for the pedagogical training of graduate students from all European countries.
• Promote exchange of graduate students and professors among the universities of all member countries.
• Organize in every member country an annual national meeting on psychology learning and teaching.
Survey of undergraduate studentsSurvey of undergraduate students
about teaching methods employed in Paris Descartes :
Make course structure clearer
Deeper content
More multimedia support
Avoid classes that are a PowerPoint reading
More on-line courses
Better designed MCQ
Make answers to exams questions available on-
line
• Promote active learning and critical thinking
• Improve students’ capacity to make oral and poster
presentations
• Give access to the latest research on teaching
methods and techniques
• Use on-line, e-learning and other modern
technologies
• Teach large classes
• Manage classes with students from different
cultures
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