DigCompEdu Self-Reflection for Teachers
DigCompEdu details 22 competences organised in six Areas. The focus is not on technical skills. Rather, the framework aims to detail how digital technologies can be used to enhance and innovate education and training.
[https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en]
For teachers there is a tool for self-reflection and finding their strengths and opportunities. It is called SELFIEforTEACHERS. This online tool is here to help primary and secondary teachers reflect on how they are using digital technologies in their professional practice. Teachers can use the tool to learn more about the digital skills they have and identify areas where they can develop further. Sign-up is easy and any teacher in Europe or anywhere in the world can use the tool for free. It is available in 24 languages, including Czech (it’s 24 official EU languages). [https://educators-go-digital.jrc.ec.europa.eu/]
For academics the is CheckIn tool too, currently available in English and Spanish. [https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu/digcompedu-self-reflection-tools_en]
SELFIEforTEACHERS
Online tool is accessible for everyone, to register you need just to fill in an easy form with name, email and set a password.
Information provided before taking the survey/answering self-reflection questions is that it takes around 25 minutes to complete. My experience is the same. As well, you can save your answers at any time and return to complete them at a moment that suits.
There are 32 questions or items to reflect, in 6 areas:
— Professional Engagement
— Digital Resources
— Teaching and learning
— Assessment
— Empowering learners
— Facilitating learners’ digital competence
(those you can see also in the picture above and anywhere around DigCompEdu)
- Everybody is encouraged, that no one is expected to be an ‘innovator’ across the board! The purpose is to help with identifying strengths and gaps and pinpoint areas for improvement. The results can help to identify learning needs and plan the next steps.
- 6 levels of proficiency do show enough variety
The user interface before and after questions is quite nice which made my expectations higher. Going through the reflective questions was tiring soon for me, some questions were not easy to answer — in a way of choosing the option which would fit. For general overview I found it good and easy to go through.
It is important reminder it’s self-reflection more than any kind of research giving you some tested results of your level.
Items/questions are navigating to see the levels and possibilities through just reading the options. Variety of levels is followed in all questions and options are easily set in order 1–6. Lower option you choose, higher competency you have, more points you “gain”. This works well for self-reflections and understanding which is my level, identifying lower levels — what I do/ can do already, and seeing higher competency levels makes me to get familiar with those possibilities already.
I appreciate the tool is done as self-reflective and it provides good opportunity for reflection, recognising my own level and opportunities to improve.
Resources:
DigCompEdu — EU Science Hub [https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/digcompedu_en]
SELFIEforTEACHERS — Discover your digital potential — DigComEdu [https://educators-go-digital.jrc.ec.europa.eu/]
