OAS-ProFuturo: free online courses on Innovation and Digital Tools

Do you consider yourself to be an innovative teacher? Do you dare to try new pedagogical strategies and seek out unconventional methodologies to turn your classroom into an engaging, challenging, and motivating environment? To find out how you can expand on your innovative teaching toolbox, enroll now in our free, self-paced, online courses in Innovation and Digital Teaching, exclusively for teachers of the Americas.

Note: Belize, Guyana, and Jamaica. If you are a citizen of one of these countries, please get in touch with us at [email protected], and we will share more information on how to participate in those local calls.

About the courses

These are self-paced, short online courses that require a time commitment ranging from 10 to 20 hours each. Upon enrollment, you will gain free access to the ProFuturo learning platform where you can access your course(s), which will include reading materials, as well as instructional videos. The Innovation Route and Digital Teachers courses provide synchronous sessions (available in English), where you will have access to a dedicated specialized tutor and engage in peer-to-peer collaboration, which are proven to increase engagement and elevate your academic performance and content retention. Upon successfully completing all requirements for each individual course, you will receive a digital certificate of achievement from ProFuturo.

Innovation route

The objective of this training Innovation Basic Level course is to contribute to the development of Innovation as a fundamental competence that enables the personal and professional success of teachers and students, from the perspective of adapting, adopting, creating, and sharing. The courseoffers an individual digital certificate of achievement upon completion.

Upon completion of this training course, you will have learned:

o Digital literacy and use of basic digital tools to achieve innovative teaching practices.

o Innovative leaning practices and classroom management using digital educational practices.

o Educational frameworks that meet student’s needs for 21st century skills.

For more detailed information about the course, please click on the following links:

o Innovation – Basic Level

Digital Teachers - Digital Image

Training programme with the aim of promoting the pedagogical appropriation of technology by teachers and the use of this technology in the design of didactic sequences to improve educational practices.

The Digital Image course focuses on creating and editing images in a basic way to use them for educational purposes in the classroom. The tool used is Paint.

For more detailed information, please click here.

Target audience

Innovation Route: Primary and secondary school teachers from the Americas.

Digital Teachers - Digital Image: Primary school teachers from the Americas.

This professional development offer is made available exclusively to teachers who are citizens of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Modality

Once registered, you will be granted access to the course of your choice and receive remote support from a virtual tutor. Tutoring will be available for 3 weeks for the Innovation Basic Route and 5 weeks for the Jump Math course following each course’s starting date. While these are self-paced courses, we offer the added value of synchronous sessions, available in English and Spanish for the duration of the Innovation Basic and Digital Teaching courses. These synchronous sessions allow participants to build upon their content knowledge by collaborating with peers from the entire region. Your virtual tutor will make a complete schedule of the synchronous sessions available closer to your starting date.

Application process

STEP 1 - Submit registration form:

Registration forms should be submitted by October 14, 2024.

STEP 2 - Receive access to the online training Platform:

Before October 28, 2024, you will receive an email from ProFuturo Foundation with the credentials to access the training platform and courses. A follow-up email will be sent by your assigned tutor with further instructions to get you started.

STEP 3 - Start the online course:

Starting on Otober 28, 2024, you will have 4 weeks to complete any course of the Innovation Route and Digital Teaching Course.

STEP 4 - Complete the course and download your certificate:

To secure your certificate, you must complete the entire course and pass the online assessment with a minimum score of 80%. After completing your selected course, you may start another one and complete it at your own pace by December 31, 2024.

Colaborating entities

This teacher professional development opportunity is made possible by a collaboration between the ProFuturo Foundation and the Organization of American States (OAS), through the Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) and The Educational Portal of the Americas (EPA).

The Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN):

The Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) is a mechanism through which the Organization of American States (OAS) advances on the goals of the Inter-American Education Agenda (IEA) –STRENGTHENING OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION – and contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 – QUALITY EDUCATION.

We believe that teaching is the most influential profession in the world and through our mission, we provide opportunities for long-term professional development, cross-cultural collaboration, and knowledge exchange between educators, institutions, and policymakers from all 34 OAS member states.

Through its activities, ITEN has facilitated professional development to +300,000 teachers through in-person and online courses, webinars, workshops, and other multilateral projects. It has collaborated with upwards of 65 institutions and awarded more than USD 600,000 in grants in the past 3 years alone, culminating in a teacher community of practice with more than 30,000 active members.

We believe that learning is a lifelong endeavor and that well-prepared, well-supported educators are crucial to building a resilient, inclusive, and equitable future for the region, because Quality Teachers equal Quality Education.

The Educational Portal of the Americas (EPA):

The Educational Portal of the Americas is an initiative of the OAS committed to generating access to quality education in the Americas and the Caribbean, through the use of information and communications technology (ICT). The Portal was founded during the Third Summit of the Americas, held in Quebec City, Canada, in April 2001, as part of the “Connecting the Americas” initiative, which was adopted with the aim of “mobilizing and sharing human resources to strengthen capacities for leveraging information and communication technology for human development”.

Main Activities:

• Online professional development training.

• Learning and knowledge management technical assistance projects, and

• Capacity development initiatives to enable innovation in education.

ProFuturo Foundation:

ProFuturo is a digital education program promoted by Fundación Telefónica and Fundación "la Caixa". ProFuturo´s mission is to reduce the educational gap in the world, by providing quality digital education in different regions around the world, improving the education of millions of girls and boys and developing the 21st century skills necessary to meet the challenges of the digital age.

Contact information

For further information please send an email to: [email protected]

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Modality: Virtual

Duration: 5 week(s)

Start: October 02 2023

Weekly dedication: 20 hours

Application deadline: September 18 2023