New competencies in a new era? Examiningthe impact of a teacher training project

This article describes follow-up research aimed at exploring the long-term impact on participantsof a teacher training course that integrated a variety of projects focusing on ICT use inlanguage teaching. Internet in education is often promoted for its features that allow for newopportunities for constructivist approaches in the classroom. Nevertheless, this will not simplyhappen on its own. Teacher education must help shift students teachers’ pedagogical premisetoward approaches that promote autonomous learning and collaborative problem-solving.Teacher training can highlight how this can be supported through ICT.The article chronicles the first year following the closure of a teacher-training project,paying particular attention to current practices and perspectives of the primary and secondaryeducation teachers involved. Data were gathered through questionnaires and semi-structurede-mail interviews, along with field notes and ongoing observation of participants’ currentteaching environments in order to generate material for triangulation and contextual understandingof the data. The analysis of whether the project described herein has contributed toreducing the gap between the theoretical framework of teaching competences in telecollaborationand its transferral to teaching praxis is significant for future input on othertraining programmes