Presentation in Study Visit Grup.No. 192 (Barcelona), March 2012

1. CONTINUOUS TEACHER
TRAINING IN CATALONIA

2. Main features
- The training is always non-compulsary, with the only exception of some
specific programmes:
Training for school management or new teachers,
and the activities are developed outside the teachers’ school timetable
- It has benefits for the teachers concerning their professional career:
Economic promotion, becoming a headteacher, applying for a post in
another school, …….
- A five-year long general plan
- Yearly specific instructions

3. Global figures
2010-2011
• Activities: 8,554
• Granted places: 187,400
• Total number of teachers: 106,126
• Teachers who have attended at least a training activity: 75,386

4. Indicators
• Percentage of particpation: 78.1%
• Percentage of teachers with a certficate: 70.6%
• Number of training hours attended per teacher : 48.8
• Average of training hours offered per teacher: 38.1

5. Main programmes/topics of CPD
ICT Information and Foreing languages Methodology and
communication 13% resources of the
technologies school curriculum
18% 42%
Inclusive school:
tutoring, special
needs education,
mediation, conflicts
School resolution,
Health and safety at
management coeducation...
work
5% 13%
9%

6. Organization and planning of the training
External
17%
Centralized
38%
Decentralized
45%

7. Area-based training programmes (PFZ)
Territory
Barcelona Comarques
Baix Llobregat
Catalunya Central
Maresme-Vallè s Oriental
Girona
Vallè s Occidental
Lleida
Tarragona
Terres de l’Ebre
Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona

8. Area-based training programmes (PFZ)
Which aims?
- The training activities offered give an answer to the needs
stated by the schools and teachers of a specific area.
Training adressed to Training adressed to teachers
teachers of different schools of the same school (school’s
training plan)
46% 54%

9. Continuous teacher
training programmes in
foreign languages

10. Objectives
Increase the methodological and linguistic competences of the
foreign language teachers (primary and secondary).
Increase the linguistic competences of the teachers of all the
other areas.
Train teachers of non-linguistic areas to teach their subject in a
foreign language (CLIL / EMILE)

11. Priorities
Teachers in a school with a PELE project (Pla Experimental de
Llengües Estrangeres)
Teachers in a school with an Autonomy project where foreign
languages are involved.
Teachers in a school with a Comenius project
h Vocational training teachers who teach their subject in a foreign
language
i Teachers involved in the Batxibacc project
The aim is to address the continuous training programmes to
schools with a project to make training an important part of
the achievement of the project’s objectives

12. Objective 1: Foreign language teachers
Main Programmes:
Summer grants: Courses in Catalonia and abroad: France,
Germany, Great Britain and Ireland.
r Contents: Methodolgy/Language/Culture
oNumber of places offered: 875 (abroad: 275)
Activities within the Plans de Formació de Zona (decentralized
training) (PELE 2nd and 3rd year and
courses/seminars/workgroups/congresses /,…). 1,500 places

13. Objective 1: Foreign language teachers
Specific programmes for infant and primary school teachers
including methodological and linguistic contents ( 340 places)
Activities organitzed by other institucions (Teachers’
associations, British / French / German Institutes,……) and
approved as continuous training activities.
i Activities organized by the ICE (Universities)

14. Objective 2: Teachers of other subjects
The aim is to train teachers to achieve the B1 and B2
levels
English courses during the school year at the official schools of languages
(EOI). (Length of these courses: 130 hours, number of courses: 91 and number of teachers:
2,343)
English and French courses during the summer at the EOI. (Length of these
courses: 80 hours, number of courses: 35, number of teachers; 875)
Grants offered in the regular EOI courses in different languages: Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian and Russian (Length of these
courses: 130 hours, number of teachers: 390)
Language courses abroad in the summer. (Length of these courses: 3 weeks,
60 hours. Great Britain and France: 230 grants)

15. Objective 3: CLIL / EMILE
CLIL/EMILE Training pathway
Level B2 Linguistic requirement
PELE-1st year Initial and compulsory training course during the
school year or in the summer (35h)
PELE 2nd and 3rd year Putting the project in practice with the students
Courses/Seminars: Plans de Formació de 10-Week paid-study leaves
Zona / Exchanging experiences / Class materials production
Contrasting pedagogic materials
Workgroups These teachers work as teacher trainers
(Producing new pedagogic materials) in presentations/PELE
training/workshops/---

16. Objective 3: CLIL / EMILE
10-week paid leaves
Aims: - Write CLIL / EMILE materials
- Know more about the CLIL / EMILE methodology
- Linguistic improvement
40 teachers every year
Different gropus for primary and secondary teachers
Groups in the first term (oct / dec.) and the second term (jan / march)
Requirements: - Schools with a CLIL / EMILE project
The produced materials are available on the Department’s website

17. Information of the training activities
The information and the
applying procedures of
all the training
organized by the
Departament
d’Ensenyament is
available on this
website:
http://www.xtec.cat/formacio