Our current projects
METAPRO: Strengthening metacognitive skills and effort regulation in (teachers of) 11- to 13-year-olds
This research designs a professional development programme for teachers that strengthens, automates and transfers their own metacognitive skills, and applies these skills to develop a teaching approach that trains pupils in the same competencies.
DeCiTeL - Democratic Citizenship Education: Teaching and Learning
This project, an alliance of European teacher education institutions, develops learning materials, curricula and professional development programmes that strengthen teachers in teaching democratic citizenship and social competencies, and investigates how successful practices can be scaled up widely across urban learning ecosystems and existing networks of teacher education institutions.
ITOS-R
Adaptation of and research into the applicability of the Impact TOS Questionnaire for children and young people in a school context, among children with a low socio-economic status and/or multicultural background.
MultiClass - Multicultural Classrooms
As the number of international students in higher education rapidly increases, this project focuses on the skills and competencies academic staff need to work effectively in a multicultural and multilingual environment.
Curious to learn more?
Are you interested in our research in professional development of education professionals? Then be sure to visit other projects on the webpage of the Research Centre for Learning in Diversity.