Abstract:

School experience affects pupils’ level of educational attainment, their employment opportunities and definitively, their position in society. School should provide basic life skills and competences necessary for students’ personal development. Panels of experts already provided a framework for knowledge, skill and expertise that students should master to succeed in work and life. To be effective, teachers need to keep practice under constant, critical review and adjust it in the light of students’ outcomes and latest discoveries in the learning field. They must offer individualized teaching so that all learners achieve specific learning outcomes, whatever their particular learning needs, cultural and social background. Moreover, teachers face rapidly changing demands in their profession, the latest, is for example, Remote Emergency Teaching due to pandemic. However, the lack of a clear, transferable framework for developing and assessing creativity, competences, skills and knowledge is clearly problematic. As a consequence, meaningful learning is far from representing the pivotal outcome. Many previous studies were focused on testing the effectiveness of different methods more than the construction process of an engaged learning community. An engaged learning community provides both teachers and students the benefit of mutual support, integration of competences and the use of the broadest set of methods and technologies.

The aim of my research is to find out whether training and collaboration among sample teachers will bring them to feel more confident in experimenting innovative teaching, also in the light of outcomes that students will achieve.

Participants will be trained to plan and implement interdisciplinary learning scenarios based on principles of active and collaborative learning with the aim to foster both students' engagement and learning outcomes. 
 
I expect that, by working and learning in a collaborative way, teachers develop both their intellectual and social skills and expertise in managing opportunities to grow up their learning community. This research could provide meaningful evidence about the correlation between training, team working and teachers’ willingness to innovate their teaching pattern.

Keywords:

Team work, transdisciplinarity, engaged learning community, real-life topic.