PICE. Profesores para la Innovación y la Calidad Educativa
PICE is composed by primary and secondary teachers and university professors, with extensive experience in Comenius and Erasmus+ (27 years). PICE participants have been very active in the program and have received different awards such as the European label, have participated on several conferences organized the Spanish AGN, SEPIE, to show good practices from their projects. Members of PICE have also been invited to Brussels and international conferences.
At European level they had a prominent role participating in the launch of Etwinning, participated in the European Parliament to work on ICT; Won the European Label in 2003, 2005, 2006 and the National Prize in Spain in Comenius projects in 2009.
Association members organized courses included in the Comenius Catalogue and also study visits from 2009 to 2014. Teachers who are in the Association have a lot of experience in teachers training. Teachers are experts in VR / AR, Blender design for 3D printing and also in digital technology.
The association tries to promote innovation and quality in teaching, and its main interest is promoting emergent technologies in school practices.
Although PICE association is very new, the experience of some of its members and their vast knowledge in digital technology makes the association interesting as it covers a lot of areas.
As we said before, some teachers got the European Label and their work was about Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology, so they are experts also in design learning lessons using this method.
STEM: robotics, 3D printing, App with APP inventor, Augmented Reality applied to science learning, VR applied to the Cultural heritage studies by applying innovative and immersive methodologies.
PICE has experts in pedagogy, in an active learning and teachers have also experiences in working entrepreneurship and to create business in the classroom, where students learn how to set up business.
PICE has among its members, experts in digital tools and how to design innovative teaching in schools and how to integrate them in the learning process.