Effective teaching strategies for reading in pupils Erasmus Project

Project Title

Effective teaching strategies for reading in pupils

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Partners share the view that reading develops aesthetic sensitivity, influences intellectual development, broadens the possibilities of knowing the world, improves speech, educates thinking and trains memory and attention.
It is therefore an essential component of social development, affecting the material level. In the partner countries the level of readership varies, but the indicators characterizing this phenomenon are much lower than in the leading EU countries in this respect, i.e. Sweden and Netherlands.
Through the implementation of the project, the partners intend to take action to increase readership among school students associated with partnership, and initiate such activities in local societies, regions and partner countries.
The applicant organization is the District Education Development Center in Giżycko (Powiatowy Ośrodek Rozwoju Edukacji – PORE) (Poland). Partnership is created by 9 schools:
From Poland, they are the Primary School in Rydzewo, Kindergarten No. 4 in Giżycko and the Electronic and IT Schools in Giżycko – (Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych i Informatycznych – ZSEiI).
From Lithuania – Dzukija Primary School in Alytus, Dainava Junior High School in Alytus, Alytus Center for Vocational Training. From Latvia – School No. 93 in Riga, Lithuanian School in Riga and Technical School in Jelgava.
Project goals
1.Completion of teachers’ competences with knowledge, skills and attitudes allowing for more effective education of students’ reading skills.
2. Developing more effective strategies to implement reading education in schools.
3. Determining the contemporary role of the school library, its target infrastructure, equipment and staff competences.
4. Promoting readership in partner regions (society, students, teachers, school authorities, local government).
5. Equipping school teams with competences necessary to conduct reading education in other schools.
The project will be attended by 100 people from 10 partner organizations. Each of them will be represented by the same number of people, consisting of school leaders, library teachers, native language teachers, foreign language teachers and others who have the greatest influence on reading education at school.
The main activities in the project are short training programs for employees. Three such five-day events will be organized: in Alytus in Lithuania, in Giżycko in Poland and in Riga in Latvia.
All participants of the project will take part in these trainings. They will be divided into five groups, where they will develop IT competences according to the “Framework of reference for the development and understanding of digital competences in Europe DIGCO MP” in application to reading education and library work. They will learn about new strategies for reading education in particular countries, take part in demonstrations of reading education and learn about the organization and methods of work of school libraries.
The headmasters of the partner schools and the applicant’s employees will create a Project Team that will set the rules and details of the activities, carry out the evaluation and organize the preparation of the results. The team will meet at 7 meetings related to the project. At the end of the project, dissemination conferences will be organized in three cities.
The following results will be obtained:
1. Organizing the participation of 200 people in international activities related to learning / teaching / training. Type of activity – Short training programs for employees. Total duration (days) – 1000 days.
2.Developing by 100 participants of the project an innovative approach to reading education of students in the home school.
3.Development by 9 school teams of new school strategies in the conduct of pupil reading education.
4.Development by 9 school teams of a new model of school library functioning.
5. Improvement of digital competencies of 100 project participants.
6.Developing recommendations for local and state authorities pointing to readership development needs.
7.Organization of three conferences in the partner country disseminating results.
8.Enhanced cooperation with 10 partners from three countries in the field of education and training of young people.
Teachers participating in the project will develop their professional skills. The project will have a positive impact on schools. Quality and positive perception of their work in the environment will increase. The school library will change. Project participants will teach more effectively, resulting in higher student achievement.
The website of the project will include the Open Educational Resources in informatics used in the project, novel reading strategies (in three countries), reading education reports descriptions of the work and 100 lessons from reading education.
This entire resource will be available to all interested parties. The implementation of the project will be an element and an impulse to strengthen the quality of education in the partner areas.

Project Website

https://erasmus.poregizycko.pl/index.php/pl-pl/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 190700 Eur

Project Coordinator

POWIATOWY OSRODEK ROZWOJU EDUKACJI GIZYCKO & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ALYTAUS PROFESINIO RENGIMO CENTRAS
• Jelgavas Tehnikums
• Szkola Podstawowa w Rydzewie
• Przedszkole Miejskie Nr 4 w Gizycku
• ALYTAUS DAINAVOS PROGIMNAZIJA
• Rigas 93.vidusskola
• Zespol Szkol Elektronicznych i Informatycznych im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej