LEARNING BY PLAYING Erasmus Project

Project Title

LEARNING BY PLAYING

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Aprender Jugando is an initiative carried out by organizations from Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. It includes schools, public research and curricular supervision organizations, and nonprofit companies and civil society organizations that develop training materials with innovative approaches and formats.

The project has helped to improve the acquisition of key competences in the Mathematics and Language subjects by elementary school students, as a measure to improve academic performance and prevent early school leaving, which was the initial objective of the project proposal. In addition, this objective has been extended to other educative cycles, including early childhood education, adapting a part of the results developed with the project, and complying with a measure already foreseen in the initial proposal.

The project has developed an educational resource consisting of an entertaining interactive software, which proposes the resolution of exercises, inspired by the game of chess and the game of wordwrangler. The resource addresses practical applications of curricular elements contained in the official curriculum and incorporates technical indications for the teacher, self-contained in the exercises themselves.

This resource is complemented by a second result: a Methodological Guide with audiovisual format and didactic purposes to facilitate the practical transfer of resources developed to the curricular programming of schools, and to extend the scope of application to other educational cycles and other subjects. The main component is teaching units aimed at teachers, which are completed with additional resources and examples of good practices compiled by the Partnership itself.

The project has complied with the objective of directly involving about 150 students, 20 teachers and 20 technicians in different essential areas for the creation of the results, during the development and validation phases. In fact, this goal has been almost doubled. The objective of directly reaching more than 500 people from the target groups (schools, teachers, students and civil society entities related to school education) in the dissemination and promotion phases carried out during the implementation have also been fulfilled, as well as the objective to reach a total of about 1500 people from these groups through the multiplier effect of the dissemination events and electronic channels such as the project website.

The products are designed to be used by participating schools in support of teachers for the delivery of official curricular subjects, and have been made available to the public openly through the project website and the product repository enabled by the Erasmus + program. Preparations have also been initiated to promote the results through platforms for disseminating educational results internationally.

In the medium term, and through the integration of the results in the curricular programming of the participating schools, and the multiplier effect of the promotion and dissemination activities, the initiative aims to achieve sustainability. In fact, the transfer of the resource to other schools and support to competent local and regional entities in the primary education sector have already been achieved. Some organizations have shown explicit interest in promoting the results in their areas of competence in the three participating countries.

Finally, the Partnership hopes to continue collaborating in this type of initiatives in the future and to apply the knowledge acquired in new tools and pedagogical approaches that improve the quality of the teaching provided to their students and to inspire other schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 179785 Eur

Project Coordinator

EL CATON SDAD COOP MADRILEÑA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• THE NOTHERN IRELAND COUNCIL FOR THE CURRICULUM, EXAMINATIONS AND ASSESSMENT
• CONFORM-CONSULENZA FORMAZIONE E MANAGEMENT SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA
• Centro de Enseñanza Superior en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Don Bosco
• KNOWLEDGE INNOVATION WORKS S.L.
• Young Enterprise Northern Ireland
• Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa