EntreComp for Teachers Erasmus Project

Project Title

EntreComp for Teachers

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: Inclusion – equity; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

context
The gap between the skills acquired at school and the skills needed in the working life is indicated as the critical factor in the strategic framework of European Cooperation for education and vocational training (“ET2020”) and requires an immediate alignment.
Schools neglect many essential skills: entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, resilience, passion and determination. These are also essential skills to start a business.
The partnership of the project we are presenting will not only build tools, instruments and teaching contents to develop the skills mentioned above, but it will also create a shared vision of entrepreneurship, based on common values.

objectives
1) Create educational pathways and online activities on entrepreneurship that will be tested and will be immediately accessible to all schools
2) Build international entrepreneurship programs based on the competences of the EntreComp document and its associated guidelines
3) Test with the students the instrument “My Potential” for self-assessment of entrepreneurial skills
4) Test with the students the instrument Vip 24 for youth orientation
5) Use the “Lesson study” toolkit, developed by the Erasmus Plus project 2015-1-IT02-KA201-014774, to evaluate the activities of the Moodle course
6) Test the methodology “servant leadership” to improve cooperation among teachers

number and profile of participants
Between 30 and 50 teachers and about 100 students will be involved in the project activities

Activities and Methodology
During the first four to five months of the project, schools select the teachers who will participate in the staff training events and they organize the working groups that will create the Moodle course . Then a first staff training event will allow teachers to exchange ideas and share their different skills and competences to create the Moodle course. Teachers will go back to their schools and discuss what has been done abroad with their colleagues. Each working group will have 5 months to organize activities for the Moodle course and to deliver them to the manager of the Moodle platform.
Once the course is built, a second training session will be conducted to guide both teachers and students in using the course and to inform them about the pilot test. During the second year, the pilot test of the course will be performed with the students. Students will self-assess their skills using ” MY Potential test ” before and after using the Moodle course . The work will continue via online cooperation on Moodle and with the help of an eTwinning project.
A third training session, with students and teachers, will be conducted to analyze the quality of the Moodle course activities and the different teaching styles of the different countries, using the “Lesson Study” methodology.
During a final training session the results of the pilot test will be analysed and teachers will learn how to transfer into daily practice what they have been doing during the project.

Products
1) a Moodle course. The Moodle course will include students’ activities in accordance with the following documents: EntreComp, EntreComp into Action, Entrelearn
2) Guidelines to use the Moodle course
3) A Detailed plan to carry out the pilot test of the Moodle course
4) Reports about “Servant Leadership” workshops to improve teacher cooperation
5) 4 reports created analysing and observing lessons related to the Moodle course. The “Lesson study methodology” will be used to write the reports
6) two projects to create training courses for teachers on Lesson study methodology and on quality control of teaching activities

impact
Create a shared vision of entrepreneurial skills
Encourage the use of innovative pedagogical approaches
Improve the self-evaluation capacity of trainers and teachers
Improve IT skills of both teachers and students using Moodle and other tools
Encourage cooperation between teachers and experts from different countries to create international learning paths by identifying common goals and strategies.
Encourage students’ active participation in classe
Promote self-assessment skills among students

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129567 Eur

Project Coordinator

Høyland ungdomsskole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• IPSSEOA Pietro Piazza
• ADI Associazione Docenti e Dirigenti Scolastici Italiani
• Lycée de Bezons
• CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AEG-ARROKA, S.L.