Learning and teaching without limits Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning and teaching without limits

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The topic of the project is “Learning and teaching without limits”. In our project we would like to support and to point at traditional methods which are approved in the educational process for a long time. We want to eliminate the situations in which the student is not motivated enough and he/she is only the passive receiver of the information. We will emphasise creativity, individual assumption, communication and presentation skills and the ability to work in a team. We want to support the idea of open education.
Imagine the ideal school which students like to attend, where teachers who love their work teach and students who love learning educate. Each school can be like this. We want to inspire teachers and introduce trends in education to them, make new modern educational materials prepared within the project accessible to them. We want to attract students and teachers by the innovative ways of teaching and to form space in which it is pleasure to learn and teach. We want to increase the image of all participated schools in this way.
There are four partner schools involved in the project:
1. Gymnázium, Kukučínova 4239/1, Poprad, Slovensko
2. Kaunas A. Pushkin gimnazium, Litva
3. Gymnázium, Praha 8, U Libeňského zámku 1, Česká republika,
4. Gladsaxe Gymnasium, Dánsko.
Students involved in the project will be at the age of 15-18.
During the realisation of the project we will organise various activities. They will be focused on mutual education of teachers and students and changing their experience. Each partner country will choose traditional and innovative methods which they prepare and integrate into the classes of minimum 4 subjects. The lessons will be realised during mobilities and each partner will test them in the period between mobilities.
We will realise workshops where students and teachers will work in international teams to complete partial as well as final outputs.
Inseparable part of teachers´ workshops will be sharing experience in the sphere of formation of teacher´s portfolio.
Another activity will include complex analyses of the lessons which will be realised not only by teachers, but also by students of all partner schools. Their comments will be included in outputs – methodology, worksheets and application.
Each partner school will organise a cultural evening aimed at introduction of the country, its culture and traditions.
Students will gain and digitally process the information in the form of photos, videos and application outputs after seeing the interesting historical, cultural and natural places in the partner countries.
Methodology used in the project will contain planning the activities, their realisation and the project outputs. Realisation will be focused on exchanging experience and testing traditional and introduction of innovative methods (ICT method, blended learning, CLIL, team cooperation, the use of digital educational content, RUR method, INSERT method,…) to the lessons. Via lessons teachers will get to know other methods, students will try work of a teacher and join the teams working on the formation and testing new didactic materials. All outputs of the project will be accessible free of charge as open educational sources. We will find out in the survey (questionnaires) which educational methods were inspiring and motivating for students.
Project outputs will be: didactic educational aid for teachers (methodology) and worksheets (for teachers and students), their printed form, the map of visited places in Google Earth, website about the project on the platform of e-Twinning, project logo, application, short video films with demonstrations of work with ICT, photo album with photos of individual project phases, conference, video film of the project, questionnaires evaluation worked out by project participants.
After the project finishes, communication among teachers and students will continue on the platform of e-Twinning. Teachers will use competences gained during the educational process. Created methodology will contribute to making lessons more attractive and simplify teacher´s work. Using open educational materials will help improve digital skills of teachers and students, their motivation and self-confidence in learning and teaching. We suppose the improvement of communication in English, increase of European awareness, getting to know new cultures and traditions and strengthening team cooperation. We think that all activities in the project as well as after its finishing will change the view of students and public in general on the profession of the teacher. We are sure that via the project we will contribute to the increase of the image of each school participated in the project.

Project Website

https://gpuk.edupage.org/a/learning-and-teaching-without-limits-ka229-2018

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77374,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnázium & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Kaunas A.Pushkin gimnazium
• Gladsaxe Gymnasium
• Gymnazium, Praha 8, U Libenskeho zamku 1