MATHEMATICS IN EARLY YEARS EDUCATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

MATHEMATICS IN EARLY YEARS EDUCATION

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The objectives of MEYE project (Mathematics in Early Years Education) are the following:
Improve the training that professionals in Early Years Education have about the area of ​​mathematics and its didactics
Develop innovative products to successfully address the teaching / learning of mathematics in Early Years Education and that are available for the educational community
Encourage cooperation and joint work of different agents involved in Early Years Education: VET an HEI, nursery schools, universities and teacher training centers

The project is addressed to three groups:
A. Students of VET on Early Years Education with the purpose of improving their professional qualification to approach the treatment of the mathematics in their future jons.
B. Early Years Education children. MEYE will generate a methodology to introduce mathematics through playful and meaningful activities innursery schools.
C. Staff that currently works in nursery schools (practitioners and teachers) that will have a tool to improve the quality of their educational work and update their working skills.

The intellectual results of the project will be as follows

1. MEYE CURRICULUM
An analysis and proposals for improvement in the field of mathematics will be made on the curricula of Early Childhood Education and VET on Early Yeras Education in Slovenia, Portugal and Spain
2. MEYE TRAINING.
A training program on mathematics and its didactic will be designed for professionals of Early Years Education and for teachers / students of VET on Early Years Education with the purpose of acquiring the basic notions about mathematics and its didactics .
3. MEYE GUIDE Methodological guide to address mathematics in Early Years Education.
This product will be the result of pilot tests carried out with children in the countries participating in the project.
The guide will have two parts, a first section that will be general for all countries and a second section with specific indications according to the context and the educational reality of each country. In addition, it will be divided by stages (from 0 to 3 years and from 3 to 6 years) and then by ages within each stage. In addition to the globalized approach and the insertion of mathematics in the daily routine, the guide will add proposals for specific activities to reinforce the mathematical contents and it will clasify the proposals into mathematical contents and ages.

Entities from 5 European countries will participate:
Spain: CIPFP FAITANAR, CONSELLERIA DE EDUCACIÓN, INNOVACIÓN, CULTURA Y DEPORTE (CEFIRE CTEM) and UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA
Slovenia: GIMNASIJA CELJE-CENTER
United Kingdom: HIGH HOUSE NURSERY
Portugal: AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS MARCELINO MESQUITA DO CARTAXO
Poland: UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

To achieve the objectives of the project, various learning, teaching and training activities will be carried out among the professionals of the participating entities and the students of VET Early Years Education . As part of these activities, pilot tests and workshops will be carried out with pupils of nursery schools in order to verify the effectiveness of the methods that have been designed.
In order to disseminate the intellectual results generated in the project, 6 multiplier events have been planned in 4 countries, aimed at professionals in early childhood education, VET teachers Early Childhood Education and educational authorities.

Project Website

http://www.meyeproject.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 143225 Eur

Project Coordinator

CENTRE INTEGRAT PÚBLIC DE FORMACIÓ PROFESSIONAL FAITANAR & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Gimnazija Celje – Center
• UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI
• UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA
• Agrupamento de Escolas Marcelino Mesquita do Cartaxo
• CONSELLERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN, CULTURA Y DEPORTE
• High House Nursery Ltd