With more than 10,000 education professionals spread over a hundred schools and twenty school boards, the Education Region Hollands Noorden is a unique collaboration in the Dutch educational landscape. Within this region, Lifelong Development is one of the pillars through which we build future-proof education together.
More coherence and more scale
In many sectors, you have to keep learning to keep your licence or authorisation. A licence in education, on the other hand, remains valid indefinitely, even if you have not retrained in content for years. Fortunately, many education professionals are convinced that it is crucial to keep developing, whether didactically, pedagogically, administratively or personally. Within the Education Region, the twenty member boards are working on a broadly supported, future-oriented vision of professionalisation, so that we no longer develop ourselves incidentally, but structurally. That is why Lifelong Development links the existing initiatives at school and board level to an extra, regional level. Pooling and jointly coordinating professionalisation offers creates more cohesion and more scale. A course that does not go ahead within one board due to too few registrations can be organised regionally. In doing so, we do not lose sight of practice. We will organise meetings between 3 pm and 6 pm and work with in-company courses, possibly in a sub-region of the extensive working area of Education Region Hollands Noorden.
Joint direction on content
Programme leader Claudia van de Peppel (HR adviser at Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs Kennemerland), together with representatives of the 20 school boards, is putting together a working group to set the direction. Themes such as formative practice, AI in education and equity are already at the top of the agenda. Boards that do not participate directly in the working group also stay hooked. Through regular updates, all contacts from the boards are involved and informed.
An important step within Lifelong Development is the introduction of a Learning Management System (LMS) which provides insight into the training offer in the region. In this system, you will find courses organised centrally (by the Education Region) and training courses offered locally by your school.