The core of a good school is a good teacher. Our aim is to support teachers, as ones of the most relevant stakeholders in the whole preschool educational process. We aim to improve their competences, support their educational opportunities and strengthen their position in the eyes of parents. The concept of self-evaluation is a quite new concept and its application in preschool education may help teachers to enhance the quality of their educational activities namely, increase the level of adoption of new abilities and skills by preschoolers. Adoption of the new methodology on how to implement the self-evaluation concept into the educational process reinforces pedagogical competences of preschool teachers. In today's world, parents have huge opportunities to get information about parenting and also about preschool education, they also discuss many issues with friends and relatives. Unfortunately, there is also a big room for myths and misleading advice, which makes the situation more challenging for teachers who need to provide parents with more qualified and understandable arguments than before. With the help of innovative and sophisticated pedagogical methods helping children to increase their potential the teachers gain more respect in the eyes of parents and also colleagues.Our project aims to support teachers in kindergartens with the efficient, user-friendly and also flexible tool for the self-evaluation of their activities and professional competences. The tool will be designed to provide teachers with the relevant and individual information helping them to evaluate and develop their competences. The records can be made in paper or digital form which makes the tool users-friendly. The tool will be flexible and adaptable for the individual needs of each teacher and also region.The main innovation our team experts and practitioners offers is the application of the new concept of self-evaluation, the concept that will be tested, scientifically proved and discussed with all stakeholders. We do not have the ambition to create new models and theories, we aim to collect and analyze existing approaches and design, test and implement a new methodological tool in accordance with current knowledge and opportunities we have. We will focus on its usability. It will be the most important innovativeness of our project. We plan to maintain the following activities:1.describing and sharing the current methods of self-evaluation and identifying the needs of teachers for the advanced and innovative methods and determining the “Quality framework of teacher work in preschool”2.defining and creating a methodological tool for teachers both in paper and in digital form3.implementation of the new methodological tool into the daily routine4.Dissemination of the outcomesThere are 6 partnering organisations involved in the project:1)Vzdělávací a diagnostické středisko STEP s.r.o. (Czechia) - coordination partner, counselling centre2) Základní a mateřská škola Barrandov (Czechia) - kindergarten3) Budur Nene Hatun Anaokulu (Turkey) - kindergarten4) Burdur RehbelikArastirma Merkezi (Turkey) - guidance and research centre 5) University of Latvija (Latvia) - university6) Rigas pirmsskolas izlitibas iestade Madarina (Latvia) - kindergartenThe outcomes of the project will be available for all educators working in preschool education:- official outputs (methodological tool, teachers guide)- Information kit (banners, short texts, video and the sources of outputs in relevant countries)- more comprehensive information about the project in the special section on the website of the leading organizationOur new tool is not only based on scientific theories. The tool should be user-friendly and very beneficial for its users - teachers. Therefore we will prepare in the standard (paper) version and also in two digital versions to eliminate the need for paperwork. The digital application (SW) will be the main innovativeness of our project. The S-E app (the self-evaluation application) will be flexible (adaptable) to respond to the individual needs of teachers/schools. It means the teachers will be able to set up their goals and evaluate the achieved results more easily than when using the paper version. The app can be used on mobile devices, which makes it more flexible.We expect the positive results will lead to the enhancement of teaching competences of preschool teachers, first in the participating kindergartens and then also in other regions and countries.

The project is a strategic partnership involving exchange of good practices. It aims to mitigate educational losses caused by the pandemic by supporting preschools teachers and parents who are the main providers of education for young children. It will realize this aim by focusing on digital tools and teacher-parents relationships. It will initiate cooperation between different stakeholders-universities, local authorities, preschools and a counseling centre and facilitate sharing expertise and exchanging good practices.During the lockdowns throughout Europe, many children had to stay home and were deprived of stimuli which is instrumental for their academic, psychological and social well-being. Teachers and parents had major difficulties finding appropriate online resources for using at home. The project addresses crucial needs of preschool institutions with professional help from universities and commits to providing hands-on experience for the educators. In this regard, the project aims to* support teachers of pupils aged 3-6 years by developing their ICT skills at least by 25% and providing resources* improve preschool teachers’ capacity to supplement education at home by increasing the number (at least %30) and quality of pedagogical activities involving parents * increase the variety of practices for preschools by %35 through promoting exchange of good practices The project aims to achieve following tangible results:* interactive eBook of good practices in preschool education. The contents will be collected from partner organizations and associated partners. This free and open online educational resource will enable preschool teachers to share online resources and to incorporate them into their own teaching. * a massive open online course (MOOC) to train preschool teachers to develop their digital competencies and soft digital skills. The content will be specifically designed for preschool education and include modules such as technology supported pedagogies, online content creation tools, and game-based/gamified instructional designs. The course will be piloted in partner preschools.*a project website, social media accounts, a logo and an eTwinning project.For the proper management of the project, there will be 3 transnational project meetings held in Turkey, N.Macedonia and Belgium. Within the project, a total of 27 teachers of pupils aged 3-6 will attend 3 short-term training events in universities and counseling centre. At local level, all preschools will carry out various school-based and local activities. LTT 1 is organized around the concept of exchanging good practicesLTT 2 is on pedagogical issues focusing on parent-school interactions and how we can develop them. LTT 3 the final selection and evaluation of good practices.With the interactive eBook of good practices and MOOC, more than 800 teachers will be reached in partner and associated organizations. Teachers of pupils aged 3-6 will incorporate digital online technology into their teaching practice better.They will use newly developed interactive eBook and implement activities at home in collaboration with parents. They will better address the needs of their pupils with innovative approaches.The project will also benefit pupils of target preschools, their parents and the whole communities of partner preschools. All partners will be able to connect with their stakeholders to promote the quality of preschool education. They will have the opportunity to learn from other cultures and other societies as well as to establish long-lasting professional relationships,broaden horizons and promote multicultural values.Through this project, long-term, open access and state-of-the-art digital outputs will be developed and opened for access for everyone.The eBook will be freely and easily available for everybody interested to download, to write comments, to give reviews and to add new content.In addition, the MOOC produced within the scope of the project will be a permanent course on a virtual platform (Anadolu University’s Akadema).In the long term, we expect the main outputs of the project to be disseminated and be part of curricula in European countries. It is also expected that they are part of the teachertraining course at universities.