Influence of Kinesthetic Teaching and Learning Upon the Development of the Students’ Educational Quality Erasmus Project

Project Title

Influence of Kinesthetic Teaching and Learning Upon the Development of the Students’ Educational Quality

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Project title is “Influence of Kinesthetic Teaching and Learning Upon the Development of the Students’ Educational Quality” . There was formed the partnership with six different partner schools from six countries. They were Lithuania, Turkey, Romania, The United Kingdom, Portugal and Cyprus. The partnership was built via internet. Objectives and activities of the project were in particular:
– it encouraged EU teaches more to use kinesthetic teaching/learning style with a purpose to satisfy the educational needs of every student;
– it enabled EU teachers deeper differentiate and individualize the education;
– it consolidated teachers qualification with innovative teaching methods;
– it completed the lack of the knowledge about kinesthetic teaching/learning;
– it let to use EU funding and so maximize the learning process about kinesthetic teaching/learning point;
– it helped to prevent the early school leaving because kinesthetic teaching/learning style is very suitable for weak students;
– it improved students’ learning motivation and knowledge of different subjects, special of STEAM platform subjects, which influence the development of students’ enterprising skills;
– it developed and strengthened cooperation between the EU states, including languages and cultures;
– it discovered the personal differences and provide education in accordance with the students’ learning need and ability;
– through mediation and application of kinesthetic teaching/learning methods it developed the methodological expertise of teachers;
– it increased the use of cooperative learning and teaching methods. It created teaching materials and shared the results with the colleagues and local authorities;
– by working with the teachers from European countries, all the teachers gave benefit from each other. And this led to develop their Education plans;
– every partner performed open classes during the Project activities. This created an opportunity for shadowing, collegial exchange and comparison of curricula in partners’ education system;
– it aimed to decrease school dropout rates and to increase the performance at learning activities;
– it initiated entrepreneurial skills and created the active citizenship consciousness.
With this Project study we focused on promoting innovative approaches at local, regional and European level. In particular, this Project was an important contribution to achieving the objectives of the strategic framework for European cooperation of the “Education and Training 2020” (ET 2020) as well as to the educational objectives of the strategy “Europe 2020”. All partners pursued the priorities “revise and strengthen the professional profile of the teaching profession” and “improving the performance of young people at school”. During these activities Project promoted social inclusion and ICT skills, as well. ICT were used in all phases of the Project – communication, presentation, evaluation, dissemination and so on. We organized two project management meetings. All the partners’ schools were responsible to organize one learning, teaching and training activity. There were organized 6 training meetings. Both the Project Management meetings and Learning, Teaching, Training activities provided an active experience and testing by the previously presented kinesthetic teaching/learning style. Our Project was oriented to the teachers of different subjects and to the 13-16 years students. All the participant teachers were cooperative, open minded, supportive and eager to learn about Kinesthetic teaching/learning methods and to use them at his/her own class. During the meetings new learned kinesthetic methods were tested and integrated to the lessons. After that qualitative and quantitative analysis were done in the purpose to evaluate the influence of kinesthetic teaching/learning to the development upon the students’ educational quality. Results and impacts of the project were based on the mentioned aims above. The project increased the willingness towards school subjects; in consequence, students got better test results and thus influenced the reduction in sit still during the lesson and early school leaving. It were accompanied towards increasing motivation and the change of attitude to lifelong learning within the European framework, namely on the part of colleagues and the students. The long-term individual and social benefits are seen in the fact that all participants are well equipped with kinesthetic teaching/learning methods. The partners’ schools have the common website and produced presentation and dissemination of their work and the project results on it. Very wide dissemination of the project was implemented through the teachers’ workshops, international conference, articles, teachers’ training programmes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137270 Eur

Project Coordinator

Silutes Pamario pagrindine mokykla & Country: LT

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vilela
• Mount Kelly College
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Gheorghe Popovici” Apateu
• Lykeio Agiou Ioanni
• Fevzi Keskinoglu Anadolu Lisesi