Newsletters ATS2020, No 1 (December 2015)

WHAT IS ATS2020?

Assessment of Transversal Skills 2020 (ATS2020) is an innovative policy experimentation project funded by the European Commission. The project comprises 17 partners from eleven EU countries. It involves a comprehensive learning model to enhance student transversal 21st century skills within the curriculum, including providing teachers with modern approaches and innovative tools for the development and assessment of these skills.

What are we doing now? 

Review of the activities of the ATS2020 project at the end of this year:

• Development of ATS2020 framework of transversal skills

• Development of ATS2020 Learning model

• Teacher trainer workshop was held in Krems (12th and 13th Nov 2015) http://ats2020.eu/article/22-teachers-training

• 3rd project partner meeting was held in Krems (10th and 11th Nov 2015 http://ats2020.eu/article/21-meeting-krems

• Recruit pilot schools (for example: Slovenia  
  http://ats2020.eu/slovenia/15-izobrazevanje-uciteljev)

ATS2020 in public

International and national events:

• At the 17th CARNet Users Confernce CUC 2015, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia http://ats2020.eu/article/23-ats2020-on-cuc

• European education, training and Youth Forum 2015 in Brussels http://ats2020.eu/article/17-project-dissemination-borut

• The meeting of  expert group "Transversal skills" (E&T 2020 working group, European Commission) http://ats2020.eu/article/16-project-presentation

• Expert working group for curricular reform with the aim of the future cooperation, Croatia http://ats2020.eu/article/14-presentation-of-the-ats-project-goals-in-croatia

• The meeting of Working Group on Digital and Online Learning (Education and Training 2020) - policy makers on ICT in education from EU members states  http://ats2020.eu/article/12-presentation-of-the-ats2020-project
   

Resources

Pupils

How to create e-portfolio https://youtu.be/MHY6cy8b3k0

Teachers and researchers

• Transversal skills frameworks http://ats2020.eu/pfiles/41-transversal-skills

• EUfolio’s learning scenarios, exemplar ePortfolios, CPD material and Communities http://eufolio-resources.eu/teachers/  

Policy makers and principals

ePortfolio Implementation Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners
https://eufolioresources.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/eportfolio-implementation-guide_en.pdf