CHILD: Challenging of pre-schools for an innovative and creative environment

With the implementation of the CHILD project, the consortium undertakes an innovative approach to introducing digitalization in kindergartens and preparing the pre-school teachers for new teaching methodologies and practices. The project strategy aims at a successful implementation regarding the planning of activities, implementation, monitoring and reporting, quality control and closing. Methodological approach is one of the new priorities for European cooperation on education and training by Commission Recommendation as well as Code of practice of partner institutions. Based on the arrangement of project activities and the expertise of the partners, particular attention will be given to principles for a knowledge-transfer and access to professional knowledge, and principles for collaborative and contract research with regards to ownership of results generated in project and access to training materials and tools. CHILD proposal, therefore, undertakes to create: - a Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) Handbook and Training for Preschool Teachers (PR1) which will contribute to the upgrade of competences of the target beneficiaries; -Applied DAP Activities and Educative Digital Resource Library (PR2), with a purpose to directly impact the enriching of the critical thinking skills of children, and -CHILD Innovative and Creative Web-based Digital Environment (PR3) for providing a complete environment to support the created methodology (from PR1), activities and library of resources (from PR2), and animated interactive activities that will be developed also during PR3. Such a tool guarantees facility of access, ease of use and maximum spread of the kindergarten teaching and learning activities. The presentation of the outcomes of these project results will be done through training activities in the form of webinars and the share of best practices in this field.