English for senior, practicing english with Montessori Method. Erasmus Project

Project Title

English for senior, practicing english with Montessori Method.

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

CONTEXT
We have a large portion of the population is over 65 still healthy and life expectancy has lengthened the quality of life has improved and these Seniors are still very active support their children help grow their grandchildren would still like to learn feel. An important pillar of society, how effectively they are, needs to feel involved in education path again, learning proesses, social events.
Our challenge is:
Is it possible to teach the elderly?
Can the elderly actually learn? And learn a second language?
We asked ourselves these question and we think that this path had been already written by Montessori decades ago.

OBJECTIVES and OUTCOMES:
This project intend to reach many results starting from a simple sentence: Seniors have much more to do and know than you think!
Our long term aim is to build bridges through aged persons in different european countries.
The crucial point is to experiment english, use it for comunicate and not just teach it in traditional theorical way.
You can use the Montessori method to teach the elderly by creating places where you learn English, experiment with English and participate socially in European culture and at the same time: the EnForSe Corners!
During their activities these EnForSe Corners will give opportunities for meetings between Seniors who live in different countries and who use English to communicate.
Through this project we will introduce to the Montessori Method a sort number of teachers and adult trainers in the field of language learning as for adults and

NUMBERS AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS:
10/15 senior over 65, retired teachers, Retired workers in general, unemployed seniors that have never been able to graduate and wish to learn and restarte their studies or simpliy seniior that need company and feel useful and wothy again.

ACTIVITIES:
1. International meetings to present each partner, bring each own experience to the table, share needs and get involved in the follow up of the creation and implementation of EnForse Corner and EnForSe Day.
2. Learning Teacher Trainings courses on: Montessori method from basis to evolution, Montessori Mehtod inspired practices.
3.Create a EnForSe practical guidelines to teach english to senior using a Montessori inspire method
4. Workshop to define and create all the activities and timesheet for the EnForSe Corner and EnForSe Day.
5. EnForSe special Room placed in EUROPE FOR ALL location to coordinate all the EnForSe Corners.
6. English corner station called EnForSe Corner will be set up at the headquarters of each partner, where activities will be carried out to put the various organizations in contact with each other.
7. EnForSe Day, in which each participant will use english to comunicate and share significan new sociality.

METHODOLOGY:
Montessori Method was created to let brain damaged children actually to learn, we want to use in to teach english to senior. Our strategy is to create in each partner location the EnForSe Corner, place to experiment and learn english in a experimental way, an active way of lerning and living and fill their time with meaniningful activities (such as the EnForSe day), using and sperimenting new pedagogical approach to teach foreing language to senior: Montessori inspired method to teach english to senior.
Using the brain to learn new notions or to deepen those already acquired helps the mind to stay in shape:the so-called Brain Fitness.

RESULT
10/15 senior each partner involved in Eglish lesson and EnForSe activities, target of total amount of 90 seniors, over (65) but this number is increaseable.
18 english teacher trained in Montessori inspired method for senior trained
EnForSe practical guidelines to teach english to senior written
1 EnForSe special room created for sustainability and dissemintation
6 EnForSe Corner created
6 EnforSe day events implemented

IMPACT:
Spreading of knowledge trough dissemination of the EnForSe practical guidelines to teach english to senior
Bridges built through different countries
Senior envolved in european identity and culture and sense of belonging.
Elderly to socialized, extended their network of knowledge and friendships.
Better quality of life for senior

In long period each year these EnForSe corner will stay in touch and continue to programme events, cultural day, english lesson for senior.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110005 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPE FOR ALL & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Learnmera Oy
• FUNDACJA INSTYTUT BADAN I INNOWACJI W EDUKACJI
• Iniciativa y Evaluación (APDI)
• OSMANIYE IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• Volkshochschule Pforzheim-Enzkreis