Proactive learning: improving real life skills due to inclusive task-based activities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Proactive learning: improving real life skills due to inclusive task-based activities

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

The Erasmus project “Proactive learning: improving real life skills due to inclusive task-based activities” was born from the common need of three schools (Spain, Portugal and Poland): to promote the inclusion of students in the classroom. The three institutions agreed that this objective would only be achieved through a methodological change. It was necessary a new methodology whose main objective was to take teaching and learning out of the classroom, in a contextualized and useful way, which also allowed the students to promote the acquisition of skills and competences.
Specific objectives were proposed to allow our students feel included and involved in the life of the schools:
1. Increase students’ and teachers’ creativity and motivation. The activities that have been carried out (before, during and after each mobility) have been very original, motivating and adapted to the context of our students and to the real characteristics of our students. The entire educational community has been sensitized about the diversity of students in the schools, the different characteristics that we find (dyslexia, Asperger’s, autism, …) and the different didactic methodologies that can be used with this type of student to improve their learning .
2. Promote informal learning outside the classroom. To promote students’ learning inside and outside the classroom, have been schosen topics related to the students’ environment and adapted to their interests (for example, street maps of the municipality have been adapted to the different types of disabilities: wheelchair access, blindness, deafness, ..)
3. Implement a new project-based teaching methodology to improve transversal skills. A great methodological change has been carried out in the schools based on the implementation of projects, in a collaborative way between different subjects, promoting transversality and the development of key competences. Works on inclusive tourism, common reading of books, plays, … have been some of our final products.
4. Promote inclusive education using a practical methodology based on real life. All the activities that have been carried out in the project have been based on the daily life of the students and have been adapted so that any student at the center could work on them, promoting at all times the inclusion of the students in their development ( For example, among others, sports games have been played during recesses adapted to people with disabilities: wheelchair, blindness, deafness, autism, …)
5. Approach talented students and students with learning difficulties with multidisciplinary tasks: real inclusion and differentiation. At any time, it has been tried that the students were the protagonists of the activities. They have been given a lot of responsibility, adapted, of course, to their characteristics. In this way we have achieved that students with very different qualities and characteristics could work in teams with extraordinary results.
6. Improve student academic results. It has been checked that the students involved in the projects have improved their basic skills and, therefore, their academic results.
To disseminate the activities and results of our project we have used different platforms and events: etwinning, project website, school websites, facebook, newspaper, teacher meetings, … Although perhaps, the medium where it can be observed in more detail The work done is on the project website: https://iessantodomingo.org/web/?page_id=1334

Project Website

http://iessantodomingo.org/web/?page_id=1334

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 69568 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Santo Domingo & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Pinheiro
• Państwowe Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych im. Piotra Potworowskiego w Poznaniu