RADWAN – Radość Ambasadorem Dzieci, Wiedza Azymutem Nowoczesności. Erasmus Project

Project Title

RADWAN – Radość Ambasadorem Dzieci, Wiedza Azymutem Nowoczesności.

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The implementation of the “RADWAN: The joy as an ambassador of children, the knowledge as the azimuth of modernity” project is to improve the conditions of education of schools from Croatia, Spain, Turkey and Poland. Preparing for responsibility and continuous activity is one of the tasks of the school. To answer this demand, it educates the basic and transversal skills. The project is addressed to parents, teachers, and especially to students aged 11-16 years, because they will be soon citizens of Europe with full rights.They should be aware of the value of continuous learning , personal and professional development also due to Europass. Students have become youth Tourist Guides at their area. The Junior Project Coordinator have been appointed. Parents should be a model for them. Children with their parents have worked at the project and actively participated in the digital society, by posting their work on the eTwinning portal and by hosting in their houses students from the partner countries. There were 120 people (guests, host school and local community) involved in the particular international meetings. It is estimated that 1500 people have taken part in various project activities. On the other hand the result of work have been disseminated in the local community and placed in the media so the scope of the project is larger. Thanks to exchange the teachers’ experiences during the international meetings and the dissemination of good practices, participants influenced the reduction of differences in education and had the opportunity to introduce the innovative forms and methods of teaching. It included methods: mind map, board games, concepts comics, Questioning the Author, S@tm, ” peer learning”, WebQuest , CLIL. We presented the ideas and tools that could be used to create specific teaching techniques. The presented methodology included education based on the educational story, learning by action, learning through collaboration and the method of guided discovery. These types of methodologies were presented in teacher’s creative book “The method for success”, methodological guide , that is a set of tasks, brochures about old and new board games. They were also the final products of the project. They could be used in teaching focused on the students’ competence acquisition and for the improvement of students’ educational results to those who get results below the average. Teaching conferences, workshops and observation of lessons increased the qualifications of the teachers involved in the project in various fields – related to teaching / methodology of science, language learning and cooperation with parents; thus the increase of motivation to work. Old sports games and board games as well as joint educational activities were used to integrate and develop the communication skills of participants. Students involved in the project had the opportunity to gain comprehensive knowledge through its interdisciplinarity . Working in groups (also international) as well as the workshops and specially prepared practical classes allowed to develop student’s rhetorical, listening and reading comprehension and writing skills. The detailed distribution and allocation of tasks was the chance to learn how to be responsible for myself and the whole team. It is worth noticing that the content implemented in the project was compatible to the school curriculum. Students deepened their knowledge and skills in the field of science. Through international cooperation, trips, constant contact through social networks and e- mail the mobility of virtual and real was developed. Through the exploration of board and sports games we encouraged the protection of cultural heritage. The project RADWAN has been focused on the acquisition of competences through education for cultural heritage. However, the cultural heritage was not a goal in itself, it was mean of facilitating learning and personal development as well as development of basic and transversal competences within the Erasmus + , such as the ability to work, communication, cultural expression, social skills and the use of media. Students created two new games, each with a partner country subtitled. The first “Museum in a box” restored the culture and history of the partner countries. It is an attractive form of bring nearer the cultural heritage for now and in the future. The second ” Mathematics in a box ” developed students’ basic competences, the ability of analytical and synthetic thinking. The use of ICT in the project helped in information flow which enabled all stakeholders to benefit from our common cultural and natural resources. The students, working under the guidance of teachers and in cooperation with their parents, were prepared for independent and responsible use of the mass media, computers, the Internet.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 124380 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol im. Ziemi Kujawskiej – Gimnazjum & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Cristo Crucificado
• Osnovna skola Fran Koncelak Drnje
• YENIMAHALLE ATATURK ORTAOKULU