GRANDES RUTAS MEDIEVALES Y SU SIMBOLOGÍA Erasmus Project

Project Title

GRANDES RUTAS MEDIEVALES Y SU SIMBOLOGÍA

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The project allowed the development of various integrated key competences for learning, being based on the implementation of various activities related to the medieval routes that are close to each participating town, so that they could study different meaningful learning related to the economy, culture and the study of the symbolism. For the development of the project, innovative methodologies such as cooperative learning, learning based on projects and pedagogical method Flipped Classroom were used.

Identified needs by the Association were:
A) Related to curricular issues
-To understand the importance of medieval routes as diffuser elements of knowledge
-To analyze current problems in Europe taking as reference the medieval routes
B) Related to the application of new teaching methodologies
-To apply new teaching methodologies
-To disseminate new education-related ICT tools and training.

According to the needs, the proposal had the following objectives:
-To analyze the great medieval routes from an integrated perspective for understanding its importance for the transmission of culture in all its aspects.
-To understand the current problems that can be interpreted, analyzed and solved by the study of a similar problem taking part in the Middle Ages.
-To learn to design educational activities through the use of new teaching methodologies.
-To implement the expected results of the project in the participating schools so that systemic changes in their curricular organization are produce.

Directly involved participants were students between 15 and 19 years old from each school, but in the development of the activities at the schools, finally a high percentage of the students were involved, their families and teachers. In a not direct way, it is considered that the project involved &&&& people (including people from other schools and administrative and educational entities of local, regional, national or european field).

The activities developed have been classified in 5 working lines:
Medieval routes: Study of its drawing, measure of distances, sailing and astronomy, current analysis and design of a trekking or cycling route with the drawing of part of the medieval routes.
Architecture, symbols and buildings: manufacturing decorative elements, correlation among routes and medieval symbols, common elements in buildings and 3D recreation.
Tales and Legends: Selection of tales and legends and Poster Making.
Daily life: Jobs, food, manufacturing medieval goods and clothes, fairs and festivals, literary genres and behaviour codes.
Cultural Barriers: Measures catalogue of weight, capacity and length, language problems, changing in the drawing, impact of the plagues in the population living in the medieval routes.

The used methodology in the project has been the cooperative learning and the learning based on projects supported on Flipped Classroom.

More relevant obtained results have been:
-Design of five learning units along the stated working lines
-Making ICT workshops between teachers and students that allows the application of the teaching method “Flipped Classroom”
-Creating the logo of the project
-Create a Web project and a Twinspace in eTwinning.
-Development of learning resource with eXeLearning.
-Exhibition of materials and objects made during the project.
-Design and construction of small architectural elements according to medieval techniques.
-Study of current social problems already present in the Middle Ages and solution proposal.

The obtained impact according as addressees was:
A) For students, it allowed improved teamwork and allowed them understand in a more relevant and integrated way events from several subjects throughout the Medieval routes, becoming conscious of the current problems through Europe.
B) For teachers, it produced methodological changes in the way of learning, allowing systemic changes in involved schools thanks to methodologies.
Further impact has also being produced thanks to the collaboration with other social agents, the work with Teaching Master Students and the collaboration with other schools close to the involved schools.

Long-term results has been, among others, the following:
-The cooperation among schools and several entities has being reinforced.
-The implication in teaching of families has been improved.
-The bases to create collaborative nets has being established.
-We will continue working with the involved schools through Erasmus plus projects and through other projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117995 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES EMILIO JIMENO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• 1st General Lyceum of Trikala
• Jelgavas 4.vidusskola
• Lycée Les Rimains
• Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Vitale Giordano”
• Zespol Szkol nr 5 im. Jana Pawla II