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Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education (TeL4ELE -518080-LLP-2001-SE-COMENIUS-CMP) was an inter-European two-

year project (2011-2013). Literacy educators from Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Portugal and Spain were trained in genre-based

literacy pedagogy, and specifically based on the research and outcomes of another European project Reading to Learn, which

fostered literacy among high and low achievers (Rose & Martin, 2012). Teachers learned how to apply complex linguistic, social

and psychological theories to their normal teaching, how to enrich material and foster in this way a more powerful and

challenging learning for students (Coffin, Acevedo & Lövstedt, 2013).

• To improve student learning outcomes, particularly forthe educationally disadvantaged.

• To develop the expertise of educators in a new literacypedagogy based on a functional model of language.

General

Goals

• To build shared knowledge and understandings aboutthe functional approach to literacy pedagogy.

• To gather data and produce reports on nationalcurricula, student literacy achievement and keynational approaches to literacy education.

• To produce learning materials, namely prepared textsand lesson plans.

• To trial the materials developed by teachers ofdifferent subjects in their classrooms.

• To collect data for evaluation purposes, namely preand post intervention reading test scores andassessed writing tasks.

Specific

Goals

TeL4ELE: Improving literacy learning

outcomes of European students

Two-year and Two-phase project

1st Phase

1st Year

Learning on

functional

model of

language Improving

expertise on

literacy

pedagogy of

Reading to

Learn

Developing

literacy

profiles

Adaption

national

curriculum

materials

Creation a

program for

teacher

learning 2nd Phase

2nd Year

Adaption of

materials to

each country

context

Preparation

of text-based

lesson-plans

Discussion

and sharing

experiences

Collection of

data on

student and

teacher

Learning Partnership Model

Vision and Mission

REFERENCES

Coffin, C. Acevedo, C., & Lövstedt A-C. 2013. Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education (TeL4ELE) Final Report, Public Part.

Rose, D. & Martin J.R. 2012. Learning to Write, Reading to Learn: Genre, knowledge and pedagogy in the Sydney School. London: Equinox.

Juliana Cunha & Maria de Lourdes Dionísio | Research Centre on Education, CIEd| Institute of Education| University of Minho

Implementation

of training

programs