DIFFERENT EDUCATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN EARLY SCHOOL EDUCATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

DIFFERENT EDUCATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN EARLY SCHOOL 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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Research and innovation; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Our school, the Kindergarten of the Centre of Aire-sur-la-Lys, participated in a Comenius 2013-2015 project on celebrations and traditions across Europe with 8 other European countries. This project has been very rich in sharing cultures and has allowed teachers and children to rediscover their own festivals and traditions and discover those of 8 other European countries, strengthening the European identity of each and allowing Children through video conferences to realize the reality of the existence of other children in other countries speaking a different language and sharing their culture. However, after the observations of classes in different countries, pedagogical and didactic questions emerged and that project at that time did not answer these questions. The desire was then born to be able to have a project that would allow us to study together our differences in teaching, to compare them and to enrich them with so-called alternative or new pedagogies in order to improve the skills of children and Teachers.
Together with the Turkish team with whom we worked on the Comenius project, we have embarked on a new Erasmus project on teaching methods. Schools from Lithuania, Poland and Italy interested in this theme joined the project and we worked together to make it happen: “DIFFERENT EDUCATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN EARLY SCHOOL EDUCATION “.
A first meeting in France with coordinators and directors at the end of November 2017 made it possible to get to know the whole project by scheduling the activities, the dates of transnational meetings, to establish cooperation agreements, the register of risks and the distribution of tasks and ensure the realization of the beginnings of the project: setting up the Erasmus corner in each school, inauguration and official launch.
Each coordinator then set up a project team in his school to assess the progress of our project, with bi-monthly meetings to set up the planned activities and organize the transnational meetings.
Then came the transnational meetings with a study of the country, the city where the school is located, the traditions, the culture, the pedagogical method experienced by the country partner. During each transnational meeting, class observation sessions and working sessions provided a better understanding of each other, a better understanding of the country, the city visited, the better knowledge of the pedagogy observed and the best to experience it in our classrooms and assess at the next transnational meeting the impacts on children, teachers, parents. After each transnational meeting, a conference with a public destiny allows us to share our observations, studies, work and experiments. At each transnational meeting 6 people from each country participated in working meetings, classroom observations, visits and other moments of sharing, mostly teachers but alsoheadteachers, educational advisors. The work was done in groups and then by pooling through each coordinator.
5 methods were studied and tested: Waldorf Steiner in Italy, Reggio Emilia in Poland, Differentiated Education in Lithuania, Montessori in France and Integrated Technology in Turkey. At the end of the 2 years of work, the teams developed an annual programme of activities for the students by integrating the 5 methods studied. All the results of this abundant work have been incorporated into a 500-page “results book” that will be printed for distribution in each country.
In addition, parallel and cross-cutting, the teams worked on ethical values to be acquired by children through various activities. This work is transcribed in a 160-page booklet for teachers and parents in each ccountry mother tongue.
The impacts of this project are numerous: at the level of teachers questioning pedagogical practices and changes in working methods, critical thinking in relation to our teaching in order to make it evolve, personal and professional enrichment, Improving the practice of foreign languages, improving teamwork; at the level of children, skills development, better success in learning, self-reliance, openness to others, to Europe; at the level of parents, Discovery of European countries, their culture and traditions, the discovery of new teachings; at the community level, openness to Europe, towards pedagogy and its benefits, awareness of the positive impact of the Erasmus project, the enhancement of the school and the commune.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139075 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ecole Maternelle du Centre & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Siauliu lopselis-darzelis “Bangele”
• Zespol Szkolno – Przedszkolny Nr 9
• teb atasehir anaokulu
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE N. 1 LANCIANO