European Trade Union Committee for Education

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in a project partnership with several partners, including ETUCE, has just published a useful app for teacher training.

The tMAIL project, co-funded by Erasmus+, aimed to support policy makers, teacher educators and primary school teachers in the implementation and mainstreaming of innovative practices. More specifically, the project sought to implement classroom practices that stimulate students’ self-regulated learning.

The tMAIL mobile application offers personalised training to primary school teachers via 30 small courses on how to support their students' self-regulated learning.
The app is available in English, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, and Macedonian. You can download it here for free

The app was developed by the project partners as an empty shell which could potentially deliver any kind of training.

The tMAIL mobile app is best used in combination with face-to-face meetings, guided by a teacher educator. Teacher educators can invite teachers to learn about self-regulated learning through the app and can organise face-to-face sessions in order to further enhance teachers’ learning and collaboration.

Teacher educators are invited to use the teacher educator monitoring platform to monitor how and what teachers are learning through the app and to personalise support to teachers' actual needs and interests. Schools can also self-organise the training and appoint one teacher as 'teacher educator, as the Implementation Plan suggests.

More information about the project here: http://www.tmailproject.eu/contact/