The PreEdTech Project – Preprimary School Teaching in the Digital Era

Abstract

The article is a study of the PreEdTeh project (Erasmus + programme), developed within a partnership of kindergartens and education and ICT institutions from Romania, Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Turkey. The innovative project is deeply rooted in the partners’ pandemic experience and aims at providing pre-primary teachers with the means of adapting their activities to the online environment. It promotes professional development by strengthening the profiles of educators, empowering and equipping them with digital and pedagogical skills, as well as providing them with essential and logically structured open educational resources (OER), necessary for the developmental needs of preschool children. The article introduces the project’s objectives and outputs and gives insights into the development of the PreEdTech Guide, its online course, tutorials, lesson plans and curriculum. These provide teachers with all the elements and steps necessary for successful online activities with children as well as for a good collaboration with parents, which is the basis for teachers’ performance and well-being. The paper also presents the feedback collected from teachers participating in the pilot.