Meaningful ICT in collaboration and in a safe and smart environment: our path towards a smart school. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Meaningful ICT in collaboration and in a safe and smart environment: our path towards a smart school.

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: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Context/background of the project; The project is a combination of highly motivational factor for students as well as an inspirational and methodological tutorial of new methods for teachers. Its main aims are to activate the new, innovative and interesting methods of learning and teaching.
In the project all participating schools will use ICT and Social Media, innovative practices and methodologies. All activities will be founded on collaboration, to develop greater awareness of Europe and European sense of identity. Cooperating with different countries will provide the “real” experience and allow the members to create innovative and powerful learning and teaching tools for the future. Exchanging knowledge, methods and new solutions.
We have a great experience with school inclusion and a long tradition of welcoming immigrants, that’s why, refugees who could come to our school or those that has just started arriving to some of our partner’s countries, will be fully included in the project.
Objectives;To improve the quality of teaching in basic skills and transversals skills of learning foreign languages and improving teachers and pupils skills in using new technologies to enhance learning across all subjects.
To build capacity in all schools participating to secure high quality teaching and learning over time.
Number and profile of participating organisations;5 primary schools from Poland, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. The majority of which have extensive experience in partnership working in previous European funded initiatives. Two of the partner schools are new to the lifelong learning programme.
Description of undertaken main activities;Children will produce videos in form of tutorials which will be used in a flipped class in the partner countries to introduce and teach foreign students the characteristics of their country as well as new art techniques.
A series of carefully organised and structured project meetings will be held throughout the partnership with a specific theme based on the art workshop, lessons with the use of interesting ICT tools (programmes, equipment, applications)
During these meetings, teachers will work together on aspects of teaching and learning. They will be based on workshops format and include observation of strategies in practice through lesson observations.
Following their return to their own schools, each teacher who had attended will deliver the outcomes in a whole school staff meeting and “Teachers who assisted” in each school will coach their colleagues in the strategies.
Methodology:collaborative learning by creating a European tool that will be used by others afterwards and through the project timing.The project is being created in a way that not only personal teaching professional profile is strengthen, rather than our entire school teaching staff will be involved and improve its profession.- active learning and new ways of teaching -The staff of the schools will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about the different school systems and to share innovative teaching methods like CLIL, peer-tutoring and flipped classrooms. the use of CLIL method to deal with the topics and produce materials to be shared with a wider community of schools and educators-learning through arts to improve language learning skills, to promote motivation for other learning subjects-the acquisition of some technical skills related to the “smart” and aware use of the new media
Results and impact attained;tutorials of how to use a variety of ICT tools and different kinds of art techniques. New methods and techniques will be inserted into partners’ schools curriculum as well as any other schools
If relevant, longer-term benefits.The wiki platform will continue beyond the partnership and will be in the public domain for other teachers to use the resources and tutorials.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103115 Eur

Project Coordinator

Escola Salvador Sanromà & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Zespól Szkól nr 2 w Czerwionce – Leszczynach
• Dimotiko sxoleio Tsikalarion
• Istituto Comprensivo Edmondo De Amicis
• Dimotiko Polemiou