Get Creative Wtih Art Online Erasmus Project

Project Title

Get Creative Wtih Art Online

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 Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The Covid19 Pandemic has increased the inequalities which restrict access to the Arts for many pupils across Europe. Issues like remoteness and economic deprivation are now even more exaggerated by Covid restrictions on transport and on gathering in public spaces.

Teachers have become even more aware of the need to provide new and stimulating ways to access the arts for pupils temporarily (or permanently) retricted from the great insitutions of Artistic learning, understanding that without developing a love of the Arts, we cannot hope to provide a rounded education for our future adult citizens. Yet the wealth of online eductional resources provided by Galleries and Museums can be daunting to navigate or to find in ‘bite sized’, curriculum and lesson friendly portions appropriate to the classroom.

With Art Galleries out of reach for many, this project aims to provide teachers of older primary pupils with materials that provide a pathway for their students to appreciate Art and the great National Galleries of our 4 partnership countries, both now and after the pandemic.
Together, our partnership will develop 8 modules with schemes of work for upper Primary Teachers to use with their classes. Each will focus on a particular pan European theme, illustrated with specific works of Visual Art from the National Galleries of each of our partnership countries and each providing teachers with Art History theory, background and learning points to the particular theme. A number of suggested pupil activities included in each Module will support pupils’ engagement with the topic being delivered, their appreciation of the Art works introduced and their connection with Art more generally. University led academic paper outcomes, an online Tool Kit for teachers with supporting research, materials and feedback on using the Modules to support primary creativity, as well as a self pacing Online Course for teachers, incorporating everything mentioned so far, will complete our project outcomes.

Our partnership consists of 2 Training and Educational Network Organisations (in each of the UK and Italy), a Teacher Training University (in Greece) and a European Education Training Consultancy (in Sweden). All currently work with a network of local schools in each of their respective countries, which will pilot and help refine the new schemes of work produced and/or take part in later Multiplier Events in support of promoting the use of our project outcomes, all of which will be based around prominent works of Art in the National Galleries of all 4 countries.

The partners have agreed a 2 year work-plan of collaboration, based around research, knowledge sharing, the development and testing of resources and dissemination and evaluation, with each partner leading on the development of 2 schemes of work but all contributing to all 8.
Two transnational meeting to support the work are planned (one per year) although these can be moved online if conditions make this necessary.

Multiplier Events will be held with teachers in all 4 countries (in person or online if required) in the final year of the project to promote the use of the 8 modules for use as either an ongoing, term-length class resource, or a resource which teachers can dip in or out of as the themes covered connect with their own curricular specifics. The accompanying Tool Kit and online Course will round out the outcomes, all of which will additionally form the basis of a future Erasmus+ Key Action 1 course to be advertised on the School Education Gateway and delivered in each of Italy, Sweden and Greece in the years following the project (with the delivery assistance of the UK partner) once the pandemic passes.

Following the completion of the project, all lesson plans and resources produced by the project will be published and available for free on our project web site, linked to the web sites of each of the project’s partner organisations, for a guaranteed minimum of 5 years from the completion of the project.

Each of the organisations involved in their development is a respected training organisation, either experienced in the in-service training of current teachers or the initial training of future teachers and each with an engagement with or focus on Creativity or Art. And each country collaborating has a specific style of Visual Art and range of Art in their respective National Galleries which equally represented, will present teachers and pupils using the project outcomes with a diverse, multicultural learning tool.

This project will allow us to engage with each other for the production of the 8 specific Art linked classroom resources and the supporting outputs described, allowing us to share that focus with schools in all 4 of our partner countries during their development and with schools and teachers Europe-wide at the end, both during and following the current Covid19 pandemic.

Project Website

http://getcreativewithart.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96578 Eur

Project Coordinator

Global Learning Association & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Crewative
• CEE AUTO-LEARN
• ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS