TeachUP Project

Teach-UP is a policy experimentation, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. It aims to support policymakers, teacher trainers, training providers, and other teacher training stakeholders in finding ways to scale up effectively and efficiently online teacher training.

Teach-UP tests two different instructional design approaches in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) by delivering scalable online courses on new teacher competencies in four areas: formative assessment, personalized learning, collaborative learning, and creative thinking.

Teach-UP runs in two strands that feed into one another:

1. A randomised-controlled trial, using online courses as the experiment medium, and involving 4,000 teachers and student teachers in 10 countries: Austria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Lithuania, Slovakia, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey.
2. A series of annual Country Dialogue Labs in each of the 10 countries, where teacher training stakeholders can discuss the current challenges in training teachers and debate possible solutions.