Varied teaching in outdoor enviroments for successful learning and improved results Erasmus Project

Project Title

Varied teaching in outdoor enviroments for successful learning and improved results

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: Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

This partnership idea started from the researches and the observations that were made in all three partner schools and countries, regarding the school performing and the expected results. The conclusions were that students’ declining motivation for school and teachers’ competence to vary teaching need to improve. In this context, we are interested in finding ways to experiment new learning and teaching paths in different environments, to go beyond traditional lessons moments in our classrooms and demonstrate how important and significant the impact could be on our students’ learning and results. A project that will include outdoor organized activities, where the school subjects will be taught in different environments, is something that will bring an example of good practice for other teachers.
This partnership will consist in the integration of different expertise and best practices from each of the partner schools regarding teaching in outdoor environments and it will be an effective way to support the creation of more active learning environments. It will be a fundamental point of departure to share educational experimentations that could be extended to many other local and national colleagues, in order to modify and improve not only curriculums in our schools of the region, but also our mentalities as primary school teachers.
We intend to develop the teacher’s competence in planning and implementing teaching activities in an outdoor environment. We are convinced that this will lead to students experiencing greater positive variation, being more involved in their learning and becoming more physically active in teaching, and thus counteracting sedentary pupils. We want to make teachers more confident that this is a success path and we want to spread what we arrived at, both, locally and internationally via e.g. Etwinning. A continuous feedback from the students will be requested, in order to strengthen the motivation of teachers and increase the possibility of active participation. The increased skills to plan lessons in outdoor environments will create a complete new mindset for the teachers. These main targets will increase the educators’ skills to successfully teach and that would lead to student’s increased success and higher results. It also leads to a school situation that increasingly benefits student’s personal development at several levels. This project will also become a solid ground for EU goals of the development of the EU key competences around pupil’s personal development skills and their ability of learning to learn. And also a way to achieve Eu’s goals of develop teaching methods and promote more effective learning in different environments.
The three partner Institutes (Sweden, Italy, Romania) will involve primary school students (7-10years old), from 2 classes, in outdoor organized lessons, that will regard common school subjects and topics from the National Curriculum of each country.
At least two concrete lessons are developed, per mobility, that are carried out and evaluated collegiality. The entire process from planning, execution to evaluation, is documented and presented to all the colleges and is made available via digital media.
Between the mobilities, the teachers of the classes selected for the project will be expected to plan and implement at least three different outdoor teaching elements per participating school, connected to common topics from each others’ curricula. These are communicated via eTwinning and documented in the Ebook. The participating students will share experiences to their partners via eTwinning, by online meetings or presentation of the activities.
We will also publy the whole activity complex, step by step, on the website www.europeanschools.eu in order to make paths, processes and results available for a wider audience of teachers, educators and headmasters
Our next goal is to integrate the outdoor education and its potential, into curricula of each partner, so that the project could become only one of the important step of a bigger objective. It means that thanks to this partnership, its activities and experimentations, constantly shared and analyzed, we could really maximize the effectiveness of the curricula and their concrete applications, by providing innovative paths and operative strategies to teachers, so that, school subjects could be presented and developed through the concreteness and the testability given by different scenarios of the outdoor environments.
The ultimate objective is, in fact, to transfer awareness we will get through this project partnership into our local workplaces, so that implementing curricula with outdoor education programs, thanks to their beneficial results, will become a real need for our education environments, to the point that in next local or international projects more subjects, like Arts, History and Geography will subsequently be planned on the basis of the outdoor education possibility and potential.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 43320 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stallarholmsskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• SCOALA PRIMARA LORELAY
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO FRANCESCO GONIN