Welcome to the in-service training course for developing teachers’ competence “Cultural intelligence (CQ) in digitally-transformed pedagogy”!

This in-service training course will equip you to apply digitally-transformed pedagogy based on cultural intelligence and validate your cultural intelligence competence. 

Cultural Intelligence (CQ) consist of these four key Capabilities: CQ Drive - managing personal biases as a teacher when working with students facing cultural barriers, CQ Cognition - effectively recognizing and understanding students’ cultural differences, CQ Strategy - planning how to respond to cultural differences in educational settings, CQ Action - taking practical steps to create an inclusive, culturally responsive, and digitally transformed learning environment.

To build these capabilities, the training course includes four NOOCs (Nano Open Online Courses) - each dedicated to one CQ capability:

  • NOOC 1 – Cultural Awareness and Motivation (CQ Drive)
  • NOOC 2 – Effective Identification of Cultural Differences (CQ Cognition)
  • NOOC 3 – Addressing Cultural Differences (CQ Strategy)
  • NOOC 4 – Taking actionable steps to create inclusive digitally transformed learning environment (CQ Action)