reCONNECTED with Er@smus Erasmus Project

Project Title

reCONNECTED with Er@smus

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

In the coronavirus context, more than ever, we need to foster remote teaching and learning strategies but we also need to foster environmental changes starting with school itself. We want to teach about environmental factors of change in school such as reduction of waste, Wildlife knowledge and protection and Environmentally friendly creative behaviours .

Our project has three goals:
1. To design nine interactive activities which are strongly connected with an environment topic, can be used online or onsite and as such suitable for hybrid teaching/learning taking into account comprehensive approach to language teaching and learning.
2. To equip teachers, pupils and parents with the knowledge needed to be digital competent and to be able to follow new educational practice based on ICT use.
3. To develop a professional support for teachers to make them more confident at using the possibilities of digital learning to support them in a process of rethinking education by increasing pupil and parental involvement

It is led by three partners, primary schools from the UK, France and Slovenia over a time period of two years.

We mainly expect the following results:
– improved and sustainable digital environments in each of the participating schools,
– an e-guide of nine pedagogical interactive digital learning materials, on three different environmental themes, in three languages (French, Slovenian and English)
– an e-guide with ideas on possibilities on how to involve parents in on-line learning as partners with added video guides in different languages,
– an international webinar on different possibilities to establish a quality digital learning environment, ideas how to develop digital pedagogy and how to create interactive, inclusive materials which support learning,
– increased students’ national curriculum competencies in Languages, Environmental studies and ICT as well as the validation of ICT competencies according to the The European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) using SELFIE tool,
– Increased teachers’ educator specific digital competences verified by EU DigCompEdu Framework

We will use questionnaires for all target groups (teachers, students, parents), the SELFIE tool for teachers and students, anecdotal evidence of teachers keeping track of their professional development and different analysis to evaluate the impact of the project.

The European dimension of the project will necessarily broaden minds, offer richer answers on how to work with ICT but more specifically on how to produce pedagogical ICT learning contents with subject based approaches. By integrating university actors to our thinking process we can offer better theoretical answers that will nourish our practices in class.

The project includes top schools when it comes to Language teaching and also an official Microsoft school from Slovenia.It is the first Microsoft Showcase School in Slovenia. Teachers regularly hold professional workshops about the use of ICT in teaching at international conferences in Slovenia and abroad. What’s more, the Slovenian school and the British contact person have relevant experience when it comes to coordinating Erasmus+ which gives us confidence to execute the project.

However digital learning environments are still at an early stage of development. Coronavirus remote learning periods showed different approaches depending on the teachers, content wise and tool wise. For example in the French school some classes used the “klassroom” environment others used “padlet”. In the British school and in the Slovanian school, they had set digital environments: respectively Google Classroom and MS Teams but pedagogical contents still varied as they traditionally do from one class to another.
Before the lock down period, there was no time to anticipate the pedagogical online teaching techniques nor was there a real post-remote teaching reflection on the best practices. Teachers are always running after time and have limited time to share what happens in their classrooms, the same can be said about remote teaching.

Therefore, this European project is an excellent opportunity to do peer training, to learn from one another and to dedicate time to it. It provides a precise framework to do so. The project is an opportunity to sharpen our pedagogical objectives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 9238,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole Joseph Delteil & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Offmore Primary School
• Osnovna sola Dobje