Individualized learning process development in pre-primary and primary education institutions Erasmus Project

Project Title

Individualized learning process development in pre-primary and primary education institutions

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Disabilities – special needs; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Early education (preschool and even primary school) is significant with it’s outstanding impact to learners learning skills and ability to feel good in educational system or to find solutions if necessary. The learning skills, including basic literacy and mathematical skills, are gained and developed in pre-primary and primary education. The problem of early education providers is insufficient capability to provide immediate response to this situation due to lack of experience in whole world in field of individualized learning in group. The education systems in several European countries (Latvia, Romania, Finland, etc.) are implementing education reforms and pedagogues need to find effective responses to early learners needs not to loose these kids as unmotivated learners. One of the aims of project is to change the “centre” of learning process from “pedagogue in learners group” to “learner in learning group, where adults have supportive role”. Beyond changes of methodology or thematically approaches that can be done independently by pedagogues team in each educational institution such change demands crucial reorganization of curricula requirements into individual learning strategy in compliance with skills of learner, pedagogue and community to determine: 1) aim of learning; 2) needs in learning process 3) outcomes of learning 4) result of learning process. The main challenge in individualized or so called also “self-guided” learning is to provide effective learning planning and measurement and turning from summative to formative learning that may not correspond to requirements of curricula in some of age groups.
The proposed project “Individualized learning process development in pre-primary and primary education institutions” gathers all gained knowlegde in transform organization of learning process (not content like before) into tool where every child can afford qualitative support in learning and gain the learning skills all through pre-primary and primary education.
Objectives of your project
1. To develop combined pre-primary and primary schools learning process management system based on learners individualized learning process organization and adpt it in 2 preschools and 2 primary schools.
2. To develop knowledge and resource base for parents in participation of learners (kids) support in learning process and ability to react to learners needs in case of specific learning difficulties.
The project is realized by 4 pre-primary and primary education schools (Latvia, Romania, Turkey, Poland) and 1 NGO (Turkey) in 4 countries common participation. Multiplication events (conference and masterclass) will gather total 180 of in-person participants. These participants are pedagogues with high motivation of educational process reorganization and innovative and effective approach integration in daily life and active and motivated parents whose kids are attending pre-primary or primary education institutions.
The indirect effect can be measured to 300 kids who will participate in project as “self-guided” learners.
Description of activities
1. Learning activities (mobility) of partner staff to explore, combine requests of curricula and explore possible solutions (within age groups of learners) of creation of self-guided learning and individualization in learning process and community support in self-guided learning.
2. Creation of new learning process organization in preschools and primary schools based on learners needs and goals.
3. International conference allows to present and disseminate the results when the program will be adapted in all partners institutions and evaluate the benefits and gains in new learning process model. This leads also to discussion and possible further developments in model
4. Training program on individualized learning approach is foreseen to provide parents with current know-how on learning differences among generations, tools and options used in learning process and necessary support handbook.
Project objectives will be reached if following quality indicators / results will raise:
– created individual learning process resource will be sucessfully approbated in schools, will allow to guide learner by active participation in gaining learning skills and using formative assesment as learning tool;
– the training program of parents will correspond to parent competence and allow to monitor and take part in learning skills development at early age by qualitative interaction with school pedagogue;
– the created manual will allow for parent to discover mostly used applications and methodologies and redesign learning process and environment of child in family to feel safe and motivated in learning process.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 101090 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pre-school Attistibas centrs gimenei & Country: LV

Project Partners

• Liceul Pedagogic “Ioan Popescu”
• Ozel Yalova Bahcesehir Ikokulu
• BILGI STRATEJILERI DERNEGI
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 75 im. Marii Konopnickiej