Creative Pedagogical Design for Successful Careers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creative Pedagogical Design for Successful Careers

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project is a collaboration between four schools from Romania, Portugal, Spain and Italy which aims to increase the capacity of the organizations to provide quality guidance and advice through the development of the teachers` skills. The specific objectives are:1. The development of design and realzation of additional curriculum aids for career education; 2. The development of the capacity of the teachers to initiate and use partnerships with local actors in the labor market; 3. The creation of a virtual resource center for career education; 4. To raise the awareness of the teachers on the situation of children with low opportunities.The project involves 80 teachers (20 of each country) of the the 4 countries, in creative learning situations and through cooperation for the benefit of students, parents and the communities of origin. The creativity, the playful look, the openness and the cooperation are core values that led to the design and implementation of this approach. The beneficiaries of the improved guidance and counseling services are the students,the parents and the community, and the teacher whose competences are developing is the change initiator.The Improvement of the service of orientation and counseling in our schools will allow customizing the educational plan to the problems that all schools are facing: students unmotivated for learning, pupils on the edge of early school living, children leaving school before getting a qualification, the lack of information from the field of labor market. The project achieved through strategic partnership with schools from the European Union that come with the different experiences of the other partners, with different procedures, with different expertise will make our schools a stimulating environment for training, the intertraining, for cooperation intending to identify the best resources that we can use in times of counseling and guidance. The European extracurricular activities and experiences of the teachers involved will increase the quality of education for a successful career at European standards. We propose this project, given that the rate of insertion of the graduates on labor maket is low, given that the teachers are not prepared to make carrer education, given that the parents do not know what advice to give thir own children and given that the public authorities have no coherent public policies for this. We can not solve all these problems with this project, but we offer a change starting with ourselves and sharing the best practices of our partners. The exact attempts to diversify the learning experiences of the students on the requirements of the labor market motivated us to train a larger number of teachers, students and parents in the adventure of self-discovery and in the discovery of their own vocation. The methodology used is modern, creative and innovative and, most important, duplicable. The project will have, through its projected and realized results, long term effetcson all actors involved: teachers, students, parents, authorities and primarily on our organizations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 82275 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul National Aurel Vlaicu & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore “Axel Munthe”
• Colegio Privado Mirasur
• AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE BARCELOS