DEVELOPING PUPILS’ SKILLS Erasmus Project

Project Title

DEVELOPING PUPILS’ SKILLS

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: Disabilities – special needs; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The Year 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage, and in the framework of it, our goal was to share an important contribution in spreading European dimension, as well as encouraging awareness and promotion of Europe’s cultural heritage among peers from different European countries.
This project included five European schools which have cooperated and created a two- year planned activities focused on developing pupils’ LITERACY SKILLS, digital literacy, foreign language skills, cultural diversity and creating real advanced future thinkers.
Following the SWOT surveys of each participating school and of the institutional progress plans we were comparing, we concluded that the students need to be motivated to find imaginary worlds as the way to help them understand the backgrounds outside their experiences and train their imaginary scenes in a safer space.
We have created a project that involves several different learning styles – using Neil Fleming’s model of students’ learning: visual, auditory, reading/writing preference and kinesthetic- stories and storytelling occuring as main elements. This crucial idea supports the organization and management of this project that increases our pupils’ personal and professional improvement. The project promoted the kids’ not only the active participation in social life but also their expressions of their opinion and feelings. With this project the kids had the chance to gain the necesssary knowledge for easier integration into an intercultural society. For the staff the project supported in developing leadership skills to deal with changes at local, national and European level. Our project raised awareness about the impact of diverse cultural heritage on their own environment and commonalities and differences of European cultures.

The direct international collaboration opened an opportunity to the participants to spread networks, to gain useful knowledge, to share ideas, didactic approaches and methods for creating innovative tangible results. It definitely led to the internationalization of each school as well as development and getting new knowledge of foreign educational systems.

Thanks to the materials convenient for different educational styles, we had the possibility to learn and get new ideas. We found it to be very important to identify our primary learning approach and to lead the teaching- learning process in such a way so that better results could be achieved. By various activities the students learned how to set learning objectives and identify optimal learning possibilities for improving their learning methods. By doing so, they discovered other cultural backgrounds. We found that this positively affect their motivation for learning.
Teachers updated their teaching styles in a way and got more motivated to use this modern methodology on a regular basis as well as using stories when teaching languages and history.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136869,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Glerarskoli Akureyri & Country: IS

Project Partners

• Silutes r. Katyciu pagrindine mokykla
• Kasim Sacide Ener Ortaokulu
• CEIP José Cortines Pacheco
• Osnovna sola Cvetka Golarja