Writing Motor Skills: Certification of Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Writing Motor Skills: Certification of Schools

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation

Project Summary

The project “Writing Motor Skills: Certification of Schools” (Zertifikat Schreibmotorik-Schule: ZSS) faces the current problems with handwriting in Europe – as well as the lack of motor precursor skills in an extensive way. Neuroscientific studies from the USA, the UK and France show how important writing by hand is – even in a digital world. Schools in Europe should be given the opportunity to become certified in the field of writing motor skills in a sustainable way. In this way, they ensure in-house that they work out this complex topic systematically, and externally, a profiling in a relevant area of cultural and intellectual development becomes visible.
As primary target groups, school management is involved. as representatives of school development and quality assurance, as well as pedagogical staff specialized in school subjects relevant for the motoric development of the child . They will be extensively trained. The importance of motor skills, rhythm, muscles and spatial / three-dimensional orientation for the writing process is taken into account in the Project.
Secondary target groups are pupils in their increasing heterogeneity. The individuality of the support refers to both fine/coarse motor deficits as well as corresponding talents and the range of previous writing experiences (e.g. migration). A toolbox for assessing the individual progress does not exist yet, it will be developed in the ZSS project. Parents, as indispensable learning partners , as well as relevant committees and experts in the context of the school, will also be involved.
Outputs are a writing motor skills certification manual for schools, extensive training and training material for teachers and other pedagogical staff in schools for the subject-related and individualised promotion of pupils, a toolbox of resource and a progress assessment tool, supporting material for parents, a target-group-specific digital learning, assessment and process support environment, and a comprehensive experience report on the pilot certifications to support certification decisions of schools and to foster the sustainability of the project activities.
The project is innovative in many cases: the topic, the corresponding certification, the consideration of all relevant school subjects and of the entire diversity spectrum of the children, as well as the digital support of all learning activities and of the certification processes.
Sustainability is continuously considered and is ideally ensured by the syndicated involvement of school authorities, which have an intrinsic interest in the results and are “pushers” of school certification processes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 332054 Eur

Project Coordinator

Schreibmotorik Institut e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Regierung von Niederbayern
• Centre pour le Développement Moteur
• FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG
• REGIERUNG VON MITTELFRANKEN
• Ecole de la fontaine Seltz