Small schools to make future citizens grow Erasmus Project

Project Title

Small schools to make future citizens grow

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

When the summer lights go out for people who continue to live in the peripheral areas, daily life becomes a constant emergency due to the territorial peculiarity: where you have to move kilometers and kilometers to go to a doctor; where everyone knows everything about everyone; where you feel isolated and far because transport is lacking. The project aims to create an open school, conceived as a civic center, to maintain the school population in the area, facilitating the continuation of studies and lifelong learning. In these contexts, where the social environment is restricted, school results inevitably tend to flatten due to lack of stimuli, limited relationships and comparisons, therefore, the project identifies these peculiarities:1. Reorganization of school time: to ensure all disciplinary lessons, through the use of videoconferencing, and to manage the exchange of experiences more effectively and efficiently.2. Didactic-methodological reorganization: to facilitate the access of disciplinary content to students, through the creation of a “connected” environment where you can learn to research, analyze and compare data from the web.3. Curricular innovation: to enhance individual study and learning processes without neglecting the profound changes that the diffusion of technologies is producing in the way of relating to people, in order to help the new generations to discover the world around us and to analyze it. 4. Use of digital content: to ensure the creation of interactive digital teaching units, so that pupils will be able to interact, modify or in turn create new content by analyzing and using the sources made available by the vast world of the web and producing documentation to be used offline (ebook) or online (web-book). The project involves 6 schools, two of which are Italian (Anacapri-Favignana-Saaremaa – Las Plamas -Greenland – Reunion). The group was formed on the School Education Gateway. Students aged 9-12 are involved. Some of the schools belonging to the group have experimented with ICT-based training courses to improve the learning of students in disadvantaged areas and transformed school buildings as elements of connection with the territory to promote the quality of the surrounding urban fabric. Description of activities: The effective implementation of ICT cannot disregard the development by the teaching staff of skills to integrate and enhance these new tools in teaching planning, therefore, it is necessary to first train the teachers involved in the design process.The e-learning environment supports the classroom activity for the use of materials, interaction in forums, carrying out exercises and questionnaires. The learning process remains centered on the class, but becomes flexible: it alternates physical presence / distance and synchronous / asynchronous mode. The technology is integrated into the lesson in a fluid way to enrich the teaching, create support courses for classroom teaching and for the training of teachers. The project activities also foresee the planning / creation and the reasoned selection of didactic materials, the experimentation of transversal areas for their use, the development of online tutoring activities by teachers. Methodology used: Implementation of a model of technological innovation which, overcoming the current “dedicated laboratory” logic, allows access and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to all students within the classes. Distance learning, in this project, must not replace the usual practice, but become a methodology complementary to “traditional” teaching. The project also takes advantage of the combination mobility / virtual cooperation. Physical exchanges for pupils and staff serve to help participating schools to develop as organizations and to increase their ability to work together. Didactic strategies used online by teachers: lessons, tutorials, discussion, simulation, problem solving, collaboration. Description of expected results and benefits: Construction of an open school full of learning opportunities, aware of its territorial identity which must be experienced not as a burden, but as a strategic resource for the future: a future of life and work to be imagined in one’s own territory and not elsewhere .Acquisition of adequate skills thanks to the innovation of teaching processes and new ways of experiencing learning through comparison with other realities. The project will kick-start modernization and strengthen the response of education and training systems, promoting social, civic and intercultural skills, social inclusion, active and non-discriminatory citizenship, critical thinking and media literacy. The impact aims to improve: the quality of education, combining high levels of excellence and attractiveness with greater opportunities for everyone, including those who are less advantaged; the outcomes of pupils’ learning; the strategic and integrated use of ICT in teaching to grow as European citizens

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 0 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO VINCENZO GEMITO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CEIP PINTOR MANOLO MILLARES
• Kärla Põhikool
• Atuarfik Hans Lynge
• Ecole Primaire Publique Piton La Ravine Blanche
• Istituto Comprensivo Antonino Rallo