ENVIRONMENTAL WATCHERS Erasmus Project

Project Title

ENVIRONMENTAL WATCHERS

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The IES Districte Marítim offers Compulsory Secondary Education, High School and Vocational Training Courses to students from a humble area at the north of the school, and a residential area in the south. Our center wishes to put into practice the Plurilingualism Programme in such a way that any of our students is not excluded, due to their economic situation.
Regarding to the number and profile of the participants, they are teachers and students with a positive attitude towards participation in projects within the European framework. They want to update their competences and improve the quality of the teaching-learning process. Our center believe in the internationalization of education enough to put its effort towards the goal of achieving an inclusive, multilingual, connected school in Europe and help raise awareness of European citizenship.
Our partner, St Louis school, offers general and vocational high school. They want this project for the general high school. St Louis has experiences with former Comenius projects and has decided this year to develop its European department. This school has been organising language school trips or exchanges for many years as well, to enable students to realise the importance of foreign languages in today’s society and to take them out of their comfort zone and stimulate their curiosity in order for them to be more autonomous.
Moreover, our schools are interested in improving awareness of the main environmental problems affecting our communities and control the ecological footprint of our high schools.
Our objectives are to promote a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning languages, taking advantage of the linguistic diversity of our schools. We have around a thousand students coming from European and African countries, and linguistic programmes with different non-linguistics subjects in English, French, German, Catalan and Spanish. We are fully compromised in improving the awareness of the main environmental problems of our communities. We also want to incorporate the use of new technologies to support language and environment learning.We are focused in reducing the disparity in learning outcomes affecting students from disadvantaged backgrounds or with fewer opportunities, minimizing the early school drop-out rates in early ages, so we could integrate these students enabling the success of all of them, including students of migrant origin.

In the activities purposed , we distribute tasks depending on the ecological topic in different terms. Moreover, students will provide lessons and complete assignments days before the mobilities, and teachers and students will organize meetings to prepare the topics to be considered in the host countries.We will dedicate mobilities and eTwinning to work in the ecological problems affecting the partners communities, so that each country will propose solutions to the ecological problem chosen by the host school, in order to make this learning approach more interesting for our students. In the mobilities, students will explain their findings to their partners. Furthermore, these researches will be shared in Twinspace platform, where each transnational team will have a panel, based in web tool, as Padlet. We will have specific activities to learn foreign languages as well, visits to natural parks, and campaigns to promote ecological awareness, among others. In every activity they will use different computer programs.

We will make our students to acquire and develop basic skills and key competences, to boost employment capacity and socio-educational and personal development. We will foster their autonomy and self-competence , and they will develop important abilities for 21th century workers, as the computing networking using foreign languages. This project has a commitment with social inclusion, because the activities address the diversity and encourage equality, including gender equality, and non-discrimination through education. We will take actions that promote new methods for teaching, learning and evaluation, and that help educators and students to use digital technologies in a creative, collaborative and efficient way.

In the long term, this project will contribute to the training to the eco-citizenship of the students, will help them to progress in the command of foreign language and at the same time, will develop their autonomy, responsibility and creativity. This project will inform and sensitize the educational community and the staff of our schools. Furthermore, all the project’s results will remain available in the project platforms. Every partner will present the project and their products in different places, and by doing so, we will share our materials and methodology with as many teachers as possible. We will share all our results: The discoveries, products and experience will be included into written an digital report and shared with new partners of other countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 34104 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES DISTRICTE MARÍTIM & Country: ES

Project Partners

• OGEC DE CREST