Mission

ECENT and ELWIeR contribute to the quality of Dutch teacher training institutes:

1. Annual Conference
   All ‘learning communities’ in the area of STEM teacher training meet at the Annual May Conference for exchange and update of both didactical and content knowledge.
2. Networking
   Exchange of ideas between the different teacher training institutes, both for primary and secondary education
3. Knowledge sharing
   Building and maintaining the website for use by teachers and students of dutch teacher training institutes
4. Research
   Support teacher trainers to do (didactical) research themselves and build stronger connections with researchers

References
Kools, Q., & Keijzer, R. (2019). Mathematics teacher educators’ professional development as by-product of practice based research: the elwier research group. Paper presented at the EApril 2018, Portorož, Slovenia.

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Partners

ELAN, Universiteit Twente, Enschede	iPabo, Amsterdam	Hogeschool Utrecht	Freudenthal Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht	SLO, Amersfoort

Team

Gerald van Dijk Hogeschool Utrecht	Vincent Jonker UU	Ronald Keijzer iPabo	Jeroen Sijbers SLO	Meryem Tatar Projectondersteuning