Mapping Native Language Teacher Training in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and United Kingdom

Vezne R., Dalbu Alterhaug K.

- IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGIES, Antalya, Türkiye, 27 - 28 Mayıs 2022, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.1

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 1
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Teaching staff in European schools lack experience with teaching in multilingual classes where there are immigrant students. Initial and continuous teacher training are vital ways to prepare teachers for teaching in multilingual setting, including through imparting methodological competences, pedagogical content knowledge and experience. This lack of preparation, when coupled with a diversity of levels of competences in the native language of the classroom, makes it ever more challenging for Native Language Teachers (NLT) to teach in an effective manner. In the context of growing diversity in European classrooms, initial and continuing teacher training can ensure that teaching staff have the skills to teach children who don’t speak the language of schooling and may be multilingual. The aim of this paper it to present the mapping activity of the MATT (Mapping Teacher Education in Europe- 2019-1-TR01-KA203- 077116) Project which is funded by Turkish National Agency and aimed to map the NLT curriculum and create instruments to keep NLTs up to date and upskill them with the latest pedagogical innovations, technologies and trends. A qualitative method and document analysis is used to collect the data. The findings are a panorama of the obtaining training offer for native language teachers (NLTs) in HE institutions and other professional training providers especially those teaching the native language of the receiving country as a second language for immigrant students and/or in multilingual classrooms, how the teaching practice of NLTs is organized, monitored, mentored and assessed in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and United Kingdom.