Conference "Teacher of the 21st Century: Quality Education for Quality Teaching" begins on May 7

Conference programme:

Friday, May 7
Raina blvd.19, Small Hall

10.00 - 14.30 registration
15.00 - official opening
15.20 - Achieving Bologna Goals: Where Does Europe Stand In 2010? A.Rauhvargers, Latvia
16.00 - Highly Qualified Teachers in the United States? An Analysis of U.S. History Teachers. M.Vinovskis, USA
16.40 - Pedagogical Values of Peer and Self-Assessment. I.Zogla, Latvia
18.00 - dinner, Raina bulv.19, basement
Saturday, May 8
Jurmalas str.74/76

9.00 - 11.30 con-current session
Development of teacher's psychological competence - room Nr.315
Improving education of pre-school teachers - room Nr.419
Curriculum development for the teacher education - room Nr.G1
Teacher's professional development and research competence - room Nr.B1
Teacher education for inclusive schools - room Nr. 413
Learning and teaching for teacher's professional development - room Nr.G16
Development of music pedagogy for teacher education - room Nr.420
Learning outcomes and competence - result of educational process - room Nr.G6
History of pedagogy for teacher education - room Nr.G18
11.30 - 12.00 - coffee break
12.00 - 13.30 - con-current session
13.30 - symposium current issues on teacher education. Auditorium B1 14.30 - closing of the conference. Auditorium B1 Teacher education Spring Universities are international educational seminars - conferences organized in the Baltic States for promoting the integration of teacher educators and researchers in these countries with the European educational associations, first of all with the Association for teacher education in Europe (ATEE), and they are run under the auspices of this association. Teacher education Spring University has been located in the Baltic, first in Klaipeda, in 1997. Since then the conference has expanded its geography becoming a truly international affair with about 15 to 20 countries represented each year. In 2010 it will be hosted by the University of Latvia, and will take place in Riga. The organizers invite teacher educators, teachers, and researchers from any country to make their contribution to this conference by introducing their current research findings in the sessions of the conference. For further details, please visit the conference website www.ppf.lu.lv/pn