Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA 35th ATEE Conference Budapest, 26th - 30th August, 2010 In-Service Teacher Trainers’ Development Programme in Croatia - Impact and Challenges - Rod Bolitho, UK Sanja Milovic, Croatia

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Content Country background ETTA & ETTA advisors as agents of change About the Teacher Trainers’ Development Programme Results Conclusion

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Background Policy iniciatives: HNOS national exams State Matura external evaluation selfevaluation of schools national curriculum framework (2010) Centralised INSETT system decentalised

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Education and Teacher Training Agency (ETTA) independent public institution responsible for promoting and supporting implementation of educational policies of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport on a large-scale. one of four important roles: supporting and training teachers, school counsellors and school principals from pre-school to secondary-school level throughout their professional career

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA ETTA advisors (110) Strengths: a long tradition of cooperating with schools and teachers and culture of trust developed (since 1874.) positive perceptions of ETTA regarding the issues of educational change/reform a good insight, from a national perspective, into the strengths and weaknesses of current teaching practices and situations in schools advisers may act upon their professional insights immediately in order to make improvements

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA ETTA advisors 948 training events – national level paticipant CCoTT training events – regional level participant

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Challenges how can 110 advisers give the best possible support to all teachers in their process of change? how can teachers be encouraged to take more ownership of their professional development?

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Aim UK students outcomes ETTA teachers ( ) (20/110) CCoTT (1.432) students edu.spec. ( ) principles

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Ineffective INSETT (Fullan 1991) one-shot workshops imposed topics; little attention to participants’ individual needs deficit view leads to resistance and negativity little follow-up support or monitoring little systematic follow-up evaluation of impact teachers from different schools thrown together lack of conceptual basis for planning; the process is often arbitrary and random; not shared with teachers trainers often lack face validity for participants

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Effective INSETT (Fullan 1991) school-based programmes immediate practical relevance opportunities to learn from each other draws on teachers’ experience and what they can do well attention to individual needs of participants involvement of teachers in planning/decision- making course as part of a longer-term development- oriented strategy with follow-up and accountability

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA

About theproject Project leader: Sanja Milović, ETTA Expert: Rod Bolitho, Norwich Institute for Language Education, UK Project group: 20 senior advisors, ETTA Activities: 4x2days moduls, intermodular tasks, end-of-project conference, publishing Quide for professional development, dissemination to all ETTA advisors, new training courses/projects Duration: 2009 – 2010 Funding: ETTA, Croatia

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Objectives to train advisers and key trainers in the principles and practice of in- service teacher development and lifelong professional learning to build training capacity at regional and local levels through a cascade model of County Coordinators of Teacher Training(CCoTT) to establish guidelines for good practice in in-service course design and delivery to prepare sample training materials based on generic training principles to familiarise participants with good practice in observation and supervision for professional development to establish a team ethos and mutual support strategies among the advisors

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA ETTA Advisors (20) Location: Zagreb 9 Rijeka 4 Osijek 4 Split 3 Subject areas: 16 subjects ETTA working experience: English speaking: 65%

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA

Module - topics Modul 1: ’09. Donja Stubica training principles; good practice in training; the qualities of a good trainer; the professional development of teachers; teachers’ professional life cycles; adult learning Modul 2: ’09. Krapinske toplice feedback from the inter-module task; experiential learning cycle; design of training materials Modul 3: ’09. Crikvenica feedback from the inter-module task; observation & supervision of teachers; action research; starting on Guide Modul 4: ’09. Zagreb discussion about the Guide; training programme design and evaluation; management of change

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA

Programme Modul 112- interviewing teachers at different stages in their careers -4 Modul 212- design and carry out training session based on experiential learning cycle -4 Modul 312- produce a first draft of the Guide -4 Modul 412- produce a final draft of the Guide -10 Total: 70 hours4822

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA

Results 1.) 20 Advisers trained - results presented to all ETTA 110 Advisers 2.) implementation now underway 3.) the publication of a Guide for Professional Development for advisers, CCoTTs, mentors and other teachers trainers and teachers themselves. “This Guide is specially valuable because it fills the gap in literature in Croatian language on issues of teacher training and professional development of teachers, educational specialists and principles.” (Basic, 2010.)

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Evaluation after Modul 4 Relevance of the topics for the work of ETTA 5,0 The content of the project 5,0 Structure of Activities and Methods based on experiential learning cycle 5,0 Cooperation among advisers themselves and UK expert 5,0 Knowledge gained and exchange of ideas and experience 5,0 Organisation and working conditions 4,8 Overall project 5,0

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Evaluation after 6 mounths Relevance of the topics for the work of ETTA 5,0 The content of the project 5,04,9 Knowledge gained 5,04,7 Application of the gained knowledge in everyday work - 4,7 Materials used in the project -4,8 The writing of articles for the Guide -4,7 Present cooperation among advisers-participants -4,3 Value for future work 5,0 Overall project 5,0

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Advisers’ voices I’ve improved the way I design training courses and implemented the majority of ideas...teachers like my new approach to training.. I’ve also noticed that other colleagues changed the structure of their training courses, and together with one colleague I am preparing a course... The greatest value of the programme is that content and methods provided a better insight into the aim of training, and effective training of teachers as adult learners. You just can’t ignore what you’ve experienced, learned and understood as the programme participant.

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Dissemination (topics) levelsnumber of hoursparticipants County49611 Regional64583 National15331 International10209 End-of-project conference6120 ETTA training events13108 Total:

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA

Sanja Milović - senior advisor for international cooperation, ETTA Remember..“Change is mandatory; growth is optional” (Fullan 1993) Thank you for your attention!