SOFT SKILLS
Soft Skills for High-Quality Education
Objectives:
The aim of the project is to provide professional support to existing leaders of the Teacher Support Learning Groups (TSLGs). More specifically, the objectives of the project are:
- strengthening soft leadership skills for more effective leadership of TSLGs through activities of professional development
- raising awareness of the importance of soft skills of TSLGs leaders for successful group facilitation and higher quality of education
Implementation:
- conduct research
- build capacities of TSLG leaders (Training of Trainers, training in pilot kindergartens, national training)
- establish international professional learning community of TSLG leaders
- develop Toolbox
- disseminate the results of the project at national and international online and in-person events
Results:
- State of the Art on training on soft skills in ECEC
- Framework for training on soft skills in ECEC
- Training of Trainers on soft skills in ECEC
- Country specific training for TSLG leaders implemented in partner kindergartens 5 Training for leaders of TSLGs implemented on the national level
- Training for TSLG leaders conducted at the national level
- International professional learning community of TSLG leaders
- Toolbox containing materials to support TSLG leaders building and reflecting soft skills for TSLG facilitation
Recording of the online training session on soft skills
Read a selection of articles related to this project
Why Soft Skills Are the Key to Quality Early Childhood Education
Read about what makes a teacher not just effective—but transformational.
Developing Empathetic Leaders: Training of Trainers in Zagreb Successfully Completed
About a training of trainers that didn’t just teach—it inspired.
About the first International Professional Learning Community Meets in Tartu.
Together for Quality Early Childhood Education: Partner Meeting and Study Visit in Spiš
Read about the meeting in Levoča, which brought together experts and inspiration from practice.
Piloting Soft Skills Training in Kindergartens: First-Hand Stories
About an important new phase of the project – pilot testing in kindergartens.
Partner Meeting in Zagreb: Inspiration, Collaboration and Festive Spirit
O adventne naladenom Záhrebe, ktorý nás privítal nielen svojou výzdobou, ale najmä výnimočným pracovným prostredím a otvorenosťou chorvátskeho tímu.
International Dissemination Event
How Do Learning Communities Emerge
Where Professionals Truly Learn From One Another?
Looking Back at the Need for Soft Skills in School Teams
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