Innovatív gyakorlatok a kisiskolások oktatásában – Inspirálj és motiválj! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovatív gyakorlatok a kisiskolások oktatásában – Inspirálj és motiválj!

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Romas and/or other minorities; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The integration of socially and financially disadvantageous, typically Roma students into the education system, and the prevention

of the early drop out of these student from the school system is a central problem in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia as well.

The main reason of the school drop-out is that the members of these groups involved already lose their motivation for learning in

the third or fourth grade of primary school.

According to surveys, the rigid education system plays a major role in this issue since it is unable to handle students who have

special issues deriving from their disadvantageous backgrounds and can focus their attention more difficultly.A further significant

factor is that the methodology employed in school is not always interesting enough for the students. Last but not least, Roma

students do not find familiar cultural patterns and traits in the curriculum, thus, they feel excluded and the learning environment

remains unfamiliar.

The objective of our projects is to develop an experimental methodology and curriculum which handles these three issues at the

same time.

According to our experience, in the case of disadvantageous students who are the most likely to drop out,it is the success/failure

experiences acquired in the third and fourth grade of primary school that mostly influence the factor of drop-out. This is the age

when the students develop their learning skills and habits related to school – these habits (whether they are recipient or rejective)

are difficult to change later on.

In view of these, we aimed at developing a methodology focusing on the fourth grade of primary school which is innovative in

several aspects:

1. We will develop an educational methodology tailored for the special needs of students living in geographically secluded places,

or having socially and financially disadvantages, mainly Roma students. This methodology will build on the potential services/

opportunities provided by the most recent but still affordable ICT devices (tablets, Cloud based m-learning software that need

minimal client side capacities and maximize the potentials of mobile devices);

2. In the development of the methodology, we include pedagogues who work on a daily basis with the target group of students

since they know their needs and they can represent them well;

3. After the developing the “beta” methodology, we test it as part of a pilot-teaching to be held during afternoon programs: it will be

a 30 hour practical teaching in three countries, at three locations;

4. As a part of international cooperation, we include target groups and teachers with similar social but different cultural backgrounds

in the development of the methodology in order to ensure that the methodology itself will work in different linguistic and cultural

environments;

5. When designing the visuals and compiling the content for the material, we will strive to make the curriculum serve social

acceptance and to display cultural values that are familiar to Roma students.

Methodologically, the project builds on coordinated workshops and on the creative work of teachers, experts, m-learning material

developer specialists and designers.

The expert team (with the active participation of the included teachers, pedagogues) will deliver the following outputs within the

framework of the project:

O1: Harmonized/Reconciledcurriculum-structure: the document recording the methodological and content structure of the

curriculum;

O2: M’Inspire Beta 30 hour curriculum package, test version, with M’Insp LMS system which enables the tracing, monitoring and

documenting of the usage of the curriculum;

O3: M’Inspire Beta testing reports which summarize the experiences of the 30 hour pilot teachings at the three location, in the three

countries (one report for each);

O4: M’Inspire 1.0 – the final version of the 30 hour curriculum package;

O5: M’Inspire methodological handbook for teachers.

As a complementary action, there will also be educational activities within the framework of the project: there will be a methodology

training for teachers and a pilot-teaching for the target group students.

The outputs delivered during the project will be freely available on the project homepage.The results of the project will be

disseminated according to the dissemination plan: on professional conferences, events, through social/conventional media and with

direct online dissemination methods. From the project, we expect the following benefits: it will have a significant impact on

pedagogue/teacher communities working with disadvantageous, especially Roma children; it will contribute to the paradigm shift in

the education policies in the participating countries; and the methodological innovations of the project will be applicable in

different school utilization fields of m-learning all over Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 250785 Eur

Project Coordinator

Interregió Fórum Egyesület & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Új Esély Egyesület
• Asociatia Bastya
• Forum informacne centrum