Changing roles : through Democracy to competent Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Changing roles : through Democracy to competent Schools

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

We chose to call our project Changing roles: through Democracy to competent schools. This was because we focused on the students ability to manage their own learning. Through involving the students in assesment of classes and their own results and in choosing methodology, the teachers ha developed their competence and developed the teaching profession. Participating in all parts of a persons life is a right and a duty in developing of Democrasy. Through involving students in their education, we have trained them to take responsibility in their developement as citizens. When this happened through International cooperation and with an European perspective, they developed their ability to see themselves as European Citizens. Working through our needanalysis we found that both schools wanted to develope a more inclusive, diverse and interdiciplinary methodology with a content which the students finds relevant and which i appropriate for the labour market. We experienced that we have the same needs, but not for the same reasons. From this we learned from each other in addition to develope new practise together. Entrepreneurship is the collective term we used to ensure unity and coherence choosing methodology we wanted to try out through our project. As a part of this we have highlighted:Equal learning – students teaching students. The students got tasks they have to present for the other students and plan how their fellow students should use the presentation. Flipped classrom – The teacher digitalize his/her lesson. The student watched this as a part of preparing for the lesson. In lesson the student worked on what they found difficult and needed to understand better. Cooperative learning – learning together. This was especially used when planning how to develope a product. Change of roles – Improvement based on feedback. The student was involved in choosing methodology and the assessment of the lesson and their own work and benefit of the lessons. The teachers then decided how they could improve their lessons. The lessons will be documented through videos with booklets which are tried out in the partnerschool and assested in a transnational meeting. Both the videos and the booklet has been a important tool in dissemination of results in ours school, regions and towards our cooperation companies. They are important in ensuring the sustainability in the results. Our experience will be a part of the schools curriculum, not just in the targeted subjects but in the school at such. We have already decided that the cooperation between our schools will be continued, because it is objects we don’t can reach in two years and other subjects we want to develope.. Since this was the first K2-project, we chose to link to us a experienced partner in Centro de Profesorado de Jaen. To ensure the learning effects from establish and manage such projects we have chosen a model with a common focus group managing the project. This group is rooted in the schools managment and have necessary frequent meetings

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 48107,48 Eur

Project Coordinator

Greveskogen videregående skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACIÓN SECUNDARIA JABALCUZ