EUROPEAN E-CLA@SSES Erasmus Project

Project Title

EUROPEAN E-CLA@SSES

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

We are three schools who propose a collaboration under the project title EUROPEAN E-CL@SSES, which will emphasise the international aspect of language learning with a focus on increasing students employability. Our aim is to discover a more comprehensive way of approaching language learning through CLIL-methodology and entrepreneurship. CLIL methodology takes a comprehensive view on language learning: communication – cognition- content and culture, which can inspire to innovative teaching methods since it implies integrating subject knowledge and language learning. The challenges in all three partner schools are to engage students to learn foreign languages in more effective way in order for them to be better prepared for the future job market. The Hungarian schools is a technical school offering Business Administration, Economics and Information Technology and in need of developing its preparation courses in foreign languages for professional purposes. The Italian partner is also a technical school, offering Information Technology and Mechatronics to 14 -18 to adults, at the moment in need of finding new innovative ways to apply CLIL-methodology in their school. Their uptake has a great influx of newly arrived immigrants who need to be integrated into education and the work market. Sweden is a newly started school offering Business Management and Economics, Technology, Information Technology and Media, and from August 2019, The Social Science programme. The uptake of the school is heterogeneous, including high achievers, socio-economic divers backgrounds, ethnic Swedes and students with multiple cultural background, including newly arrived young immigrants. A lack of language and communication skills prevent young adults from getting into the job market and succeed academically.

The project will therefore give room for on staff training by approaching CLIL-methodology within their current curriculum with the purpose of preparing their students for their future. Activities in meetings willfirst target relevant didactic concepts such as CLIL, digital literacies, blended learning in seminars seminars supported by lectures given by local expertise and education departments at Universities. By selecting common topics for integrating subject knowledge and language skills, the teachers will be able to compare and contrast their reflections around their teaching practice in order to find new ways of designing teaching and learning activities with the help of digital material and tools. The individual student in mixed ability groups may progress better if given more teacher support through digital materials or blended learning allowing the student to learn at his own path. Therefore exploring and developing digital materials and tools to be shared on our common website is an important practical aspect of EUROPEAN E-CL@SSES.

The participating teachers in this project will:
Create digital contents which should be planned by teachers and developed by students in groups in the classroom. These digital contents could eventually be published on a platform which would be common for our schools and other schools and/or research institutes which could be involved in the net in the future.

Reflect on new methodologies/strategies/tools which could lead to the creation of the above mentioned digital contents.

Promote cooperative learning by :
1.implementing work in groups;
2.planning involving tasks in a group perspective;
3.Facilitating conversation (about works done by others for example);
4.Plan a synergy between individuals, groups, and whole class
5.Documentation of what happens in the classroom and analysis of the learning process which has come out of it.
6.Stimulating students’ thinking and creativity.

Link their teaching practice to CLIL-methodology. The teaching practice should:

• support students with proper tools for language learning
• collaborate with other teachers around didactics
• build up nets of teachers/schools aimed at a continuous exchange of good practices

In which students should be:
• see the class as a democratic community where you can find mutual respect, attention to others’ ideas and collaboration
• learn to learn as individuals and in groups
• develop awareness of their thoughts and cognitive processes
• learn to cultivate social relations and handle conflicts properly;
• develop social competences of team working for their life and work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54192 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hedda Anderssongymnasiet & Country: SE

Project Partners

• ITT Marconi
• Nyíregyházi SZC Széchenyi István Közgazdasági, Informatikai Szakgimnáziuma és Kollégiuma