3C4Life - Perspectives for Lifelong STEM Teaching – Career Guidance, Collaborative Practice and Competence Development

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3C4Life - Perspectives for Lifelong STEM Teaching – Career Guidance, Collaborative Practice and Competence Development (grant no. 626139-EPP-1-2020-2-DE-EPPKA3-PI-POLICY)

Europe is facing teacher shortages. This EU-funded project aims to raise the attractiveness of teacher profession.

Teachers need to update their teaching skills, competences, operate digitally, and act self-efficiently. 3C4life gathers 12 partners from 6 European countries. This powerful tandem structure tackles a fallow issue, which impedes top conditions in STEM education across Europe: STEM education systems lack the capacity to support teachers to make the best of their life as teachers.

About the project

3C4Life will develop an online platform for future STEM student teachers, young teaching professionals as well as experienced in-service STEM teachers to increase the attractiveness of the STEM teaching profession in the partner countries (and abroad).

To raise the attractiveness of the teacher profession, the following requirements have been identified:

Positive image of the teaching profession must be established, among teachers as well as among society.
The teaching profession must be perceived as a lifelong development process, including the use of innovative teaching approaches.
Collaborative practice and professional learning communities must be promoted and anchored.
Teachers must receive support from the beginning of and throughout their careers to allow for professional growth.

Our measure is an all-digital STEM teacher platform with an innovative occupational advancement concept. The three perspectives are:

- - - career guidance, in vertical and horizontal directions,
    - collaborative practice among relevant educational actors on national level (mainly pre- and in-service STEM teachers, higher education training and research, PD providers, education policy and school practice), and
    - development of up-to-date teaching and leadership competences.