PersOnalized teaChing: the Key to success in EducaTion – Tools Erasmus Project

Project Title

PersOnalized teaChing: the Key to success in EducaTion – Tools

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The project “Personalized teaching: the Key to success in education – Tools” has been implemented by the High School “M. Buratti” in partnership with 6 schools from the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Hungary, Malta and Portugal, to cover a large portion of European territory representing different cultures and educational approaches on which the EU is founded. POCKET was born from the need to share and test new practical tools for individualization and personalization of the learning process.
The project met a number of E + priorities:
1. Supported schools to tackle early school leaving (ESL) addressing all students from the lowest to the highest level of the academic spectrum, developing methods and creating conditions for personalized teaching and learning in order to support each pupil
2. Opened and innovative education embedded in the digital era
3. Addressed underachievement in the basic skills of maths, science and literacy through more effective, innovative teaching methods
4. Enabled achievements in relevant and high-level basic and transversal skills in a lifelong learning perspective
5. Addressed inclusive education
6. Strengthened the profile of the teaching professions
General objectives met are:
– Contributed to reduce early drop out and educational failure with the personalization of learning
– Improved results in basic skill and prepared pupils to face the structured standardized tests
– Offered pupils a school curriculum that gives value to each single character and talent, promoted collaboration and communication between students and teachers, among students (with peer education and tutoring) and within the school bodies to build a learning community, improved the internal relation environment and thus contributed to fight early school leaving, demotivation and failure
– Created and consolidated networks, increased the capacity to operate at EU level, shared and compared ideas, practices and methods
Specific objectives met are:
– To build modular and graduated learning units (also in e-learning mode) to enable each student to develop his/her own unique intellectual potential
– To reach a fast recovery of prerequisites as a form of early prevention of ESL and failure
– To train teachers in using innovative teaching methods (i.e. Moodle)
POCKET involved 14/15 y.o. pupils, of which half with learning difficulties and poor performance, three teachers and one headmaster per partner in the implementation of 3 activities:
Action 1 – “Educational difficulties and individualization”: application of mastery learning as an individualized learning strategy to assess initial skills and ensuring a fast recovery for students from the lowest academic spectrum. Several learning units has been produced, using the methodologies of mastery learning and peer tutoring
Action 2 – “Basic Skills and standardized structured tests”: we focused on basic skills (logical-mathematical skills and literacy) and transversal skills, always moving from the centrality of the learner, using problem-based and inquiry-based learning, cross curricular approach, LABs and cooperative learning methods
Action 3 – “Excellencies and personalization: creation of modular and graduated learning units in e-learning”: we used the personalized e-learning methodologies, thanks to the Google and the flipped classroom, to support excellences and talents.
Teachers of the international team developed learning units in mathematics, English and mother tongue.
At the end of each action a blended Mobility between students in Spain, Holland and Malta has been implemented; a joint staff training event took place too before the start of action 1 to train teacher on personalization methods. All LTT activities brought an added value to the project itself.
Headteachers have been actively involved in the activities as individualization / personalization of learning/teaching processes implies an organizational and spaces restructuring: the support of the leadership has been essential to achieve the objectives.
At the end of the activities, expected results have both been tangible output products and learning outcomes: coherently with the individualized/personalized approach of the project as a whole, minimum goals and results have been set, all partners have achieved more ambitious objectives and results. Tangible results have been, other than communication tools (website www.pockettools.weebly.com), 9 learning units in mathematics, mother tongue and English, built up in the form of OER in the Moodle e-learning platform and uploaded on the European Dissemination platform. The intangible results consisted in hard and soft skills acquired by the target groups (pupils, teachers, institutions as a whole) that generated long-term benefits.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 176205 Eur

Project Coordinator

LICEO GINNASIO STATALE ” M. BURATTI ” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Kardos István Általános Iskola, Gimnázium és Szakgimnázium
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria CESAR MANRIQUE
• Vereniging voor Christelijk Voortgezet onderwijs Rotterdam en omgeving, Christelijke Scholengemeenschap Comenius College
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I
• KARTAL SEHIT SALIH ALISKAN MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI
• Alternative Learning Programme