BUILDING ACTIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING STUDENTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

BUILDING ACTIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING STUDENTS

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

BUILDING ACTIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING STUDENTS Student assessment (PISA) results show that our pupils achieve the lowest level results in the “use” of critical thinking. Besides reading and writing, it is one of the fundamental competences which needs to be taught. We aim to improve the competences of pupils in the field of critical thinking and problem solving, skills strongly necessary for a more successful future. Objectives are:
-implement new strategies and increase means of preventing school dropout, bullying, promoting social inclusion and gain the knowledge necessary in a world full of challenges and changes.
-fight social exclusion, absence of basic skills and school leaving.
-encourage critical thinking and problem solving,allow teachers to cooperate for innovation (“PBL” “gamification” “debate”, “role playing” and more) and exchange of good practices -enrich classes with skills and knowledge necessary to create a democratic school environment and foster collaboration between educational sectors including disadvantaged learners.
Italy, Poland, Spain, Greece, Slovenia have been chosen because they were interested in developing critical thinking and active learning. Project activities involve teachers and school staff in 2 STJ staff training events,16 teachers,in 3 STE of groups of pupils 24 teachers 60 students. About 150 other teachers/ adults will be indirectly affected. Administrative staff: headmaster/ will be indirectly affected. Family members will help the guest countries to know host country’s culture and traditions. Local community represent an important tool for disseminating the project to a larger community and it will involve local press, municipality.
Nov 2019 – 1st STJ STAFF TRAINING EVENTS C1 traning activities on Debate Spain
Nov 2020: Logo competition, setting of Fb page and project website. Creation of: 1st “side project” on etwinning, class on Edmodo/google classroom…
Nov 2019-April 2020 “Join the debaters club!” students produce a document to join the club. Teachers share activities and lesson plans/results through a logbook on eTwinning/website/Fb
April 2020 1st meeting C2on DEBATE. Students and teachers share results to join the club and participate to workshops in Poland
May 2020: evaluation of the 1st year project activities and SWAT analisys
Oct 2020 2nd STJ STAFF TRAINING EVENTS C3 In Slovenia training activities for teachers on “TALK”
Oct2020-March2021: “Think-pair-share!” student will be asked to login on etwining/edmodo.. and discuss the problem/ question teachers have posed; after they develop and share ideas with the other students during the following meeting. Teachers enrich the documentation of innovative practices used in the classroom with a logbook on classroom activities. Documentation published on all the web channels activated for the project. Students’ collaboration on eTwinning.
March2021: 2nd S.T.E. of group of pupils C4. Each students present a “pill” of their “Think, pair, share” activity; teachers share results and participate to workshops in Greece
March2021-May2021 training activities for teachers on”GAMIFICATION”( the work session available on Goole class/moodle) before the meeting; Students produce a digital document “My gamified classroom” on the learning experiences made at own school
May 2021 3rd S.T.E. of group of pupils C5 on GAMIFICATION
May 2021 evaluation of the project activities and SWAT analisys
We cooperate for innovation and exchange of good practices on: activities and new methodologies such as “classroom debates”, talk, gamification, PBL
Learning technique of debating allow students to develop students’ ability to think actively and independently.Students will be taught why to give a“talk”: to persuade an audience, to agree/disagree. The use of game elements and game-based thinking; in the learning teaching activities to include and motivate
Through PBL method students work on topics that engage them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question.
Outcomes and impact:all through the project the five partners aim to generate short-term /long-term tangible and intangible outcomes as well and to obtain the biggest possible effect on upcoming projects including: guiding students to overcome the lack of self-esteem, creating project website/ FB page to ensure non-stop access to the project’s activities, development and outcomes, publishing newspaper reports and brochures to brief other people about the project’s general framework and its main outcomes, organizing multiplier events communicating, developing students at risk’ s cognitive skills and promoting effective partnerships between trainers, educators and community.
Longer term benefits:better equipped students with skills to orientate in the future choices/more skilled teachers in creativity and innovation to invest for the improvement of school education and projects/development of technological and linguistic competences

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87335 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo M.Buonarroti & Country: IT

Project Partners

• IES JOSE MARIA MORON Y BARRIENTOS
• Grm Primary School
• 2nd Junior High School of Rethymno
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Bohaterów Westerplatte w Bienkowicach