Active Learning with Three Methodologies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Active Learning with Three Methodologies

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The objectives of the project “Active Learning with Three Methodologies” are to increase teacher’s professional growth and development, enthusiasm for their work and skills to plan their teaching in more versatile ways by creating them opportunities to learn first-hand about different teaching approaches and methods both on teachers’ personal and school levels. Further more, with the help of the project, the teachers meet new international colleagues and can form an European teacher’s community in which they can share their ideas, project plans, worries and success. Doing so, the project also strives to increase participants’ understanding and appreciation towards other European cultures, customs and educational systems. By showing and seeing how we do things differently, we evoke conversation and understanding on how we can break old habits of doing things and give inspiring viewpoints to many questions we come across in the every day life at school. The international exchange will also hopefully give encouraging insights on things that we are already doing well.

In addition to the benefits for the teachers, also the pupils get to experience new ways to learn. The project offers the participating pupils change to reflect their learning skills and analyze what are the best learning methods for them. The aim is to enable the teachers to see the undeniable benefits of using different teaching approaches: pupils have different strengths and that they learn differently according to the methods used. As the teachers see the benefits of using variety of different teaching methods and apply them into their work, the teachers thus promote the inclusion of all pupils.

The project also establishes a shared working platform on Twinspace where participants, teachers and students, can share their ideas, projects and discussion.

There are three participants in the project: Suonenjoen yhtenäiskoulu from Finland, Colegio Santa Teresa from Spain and collège Georges Pompidou from France. The participating schools have pupils between the ages 6 and 16. The Finnish and Spanish schools are comprehensive schools, the French school is a secondary school. All the partners include both teachers and pupils into the LTT events.

Every participant country has a different teaching approach that they use successfully at their school and which benefits it wants to demonstrate and share with other participants. The Finnish partner will demonstrate out-of-the-classroom education, the Spanish partner project based learning and the French partner demonstrates workshop learning. This demonstrating will take place during the LTT events so that the participating teachers and pupils will have first-hand experience on how a certain teaching approach can be used. The subjective experiences on how the chosen methods are used in action are vital in order to the participants to fully understand the practices, the aims, the concrete actions and outcomes of the methods and give them courage to apply new methods into their own teaching and learning.

The shared working platform on Twinspace where participants, teachers and students, can share their ideas, projects and discussion enables the partners to communicate and learn from each others throughout the project. To aid this, the project also uses other social media outlets actively throughout the whole project. With every mobility, a new teaching method is being introduced by a host school, added into the online platform with pedagogical arguments and aims for using the method in question. After seeing how the host school apply the chosen method in action, the guests plan and put into action their own model of the pedagogical method back home and these models will also be presented and discussed on the platform.

The concrete results the project aims to achieve include the use of more versatile teaching and learning methods both on teachers’ personal and on school levels, the improvements in the English and ICT skills and the courage to use these skills, the improvements in the learning results of the pupils due to the versatile teaching methods. Also, the online platform that functions as a work and contact medium during the project gathering the important pedagogical and project data about the project will be a concrete result that the project produces.

Furthermore, the plan is to share the project description, the pedagogical input and the results of the project and inspire other teaching and training institutions by posting them on the Erasmus Results web page and School Education Gateway in addition to the project’s open eTwinning page. The partners also publish an e-magazine about the project and its results. As the purpose is to create permanent impacts and changes in the teachers’ teaching methods, pupils’ learning habits and in the schools’ policies, the partners also aim to deepen the collaboration with next project which will rise from them achievements of the first project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 83635 Eur

Project Coordinator

Suonenjoen yhtenäiskoulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• SANTA TERESA
• collège GeorgesPompidou