CREATING TOMORROW’S SCHOOLS TODAY Erasmus Project

Project Title

CREATING TOMORROW’S SCHOOLS TODAY

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Research and innovation

Project Summary

CREATING TOMORROW’S SCHOOLS TODAY is a project by six European primary and primary&secondary schools from Swansea (United Kingdom), Clermont-Ferrand (France), Gera (Germany), Byalistok (Poland), Saronno (Italy) and Salamanca (Spain). These six schools clicked instantly when they realized they are all currently engaged with delivering lessons in a creative and experiential way employing, for example, both traditional PLAYMOBIL toys or modern devices such as the iPad. Consequently this common feature led them to embark together on this project about cooperation and innovation for good practices.

The main aim of the project is sharing, testing and compiling cross-curricular good practices both during transnational project meetings and online. The resultant compilation will turn into THE EUROPEAN TEACHER’S TOOLKIT, a Blog packed with didactic resources and practical classroom strategies that will enable teachers to meet the needs of different learning styles, stimulate their own creativity, add a spice to their teaching and challenge the gifted and the disruptive students.

The project also includes the creation of a LEARNING CENTER at each participant school. This is a classroom furnished with PLAYMOBIL, LEGO and SCHLEICH toys carefully selected for their significance as a tool to support the acquisition of foreign languages and other curriculum contents.

The icing on the cake is a Science Fair and a Children’s Literature Fair which will be held every school year to promote inquiry-based learning and the use of authentic materials among teachers and students.

In short, the motto of the project is that we teachers should be as concerned with HOW we teach as we traditionally have been concerned with WHAT we teach.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115860 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegio Santisima Trinidad & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Statale Ignoto Militi
• Erich Kaestner Grundschule Gera
• OGEC Sainte Thérèse les Cordeliers
• Zespol Szkol Spolecznych nr 3 Bialostockiego Towarzystwa Oswiatowego w Bialymstoku
• Ynystawe Primary School