LEARNING FOR LIFE BY PBL PROJECTS Erasmus Project

Project Title

LEARNING FOR LIFE BY PBL PROJECTS

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

CONTEXT
In the last years new education methodology approaches have been developed, such as Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Multiple Intelligences (MI). Thanks to those methodologies students will learn by trying to solve real life problems. Learning will be boosted by the need to solve the problem. At the same time all the students are different and following the MI theory, although all of them are intelligent, the way they learn is different. So thanks to these methodologies we will address the problem of motivation towards learning, improvement in learning results and early school leaving.
As in real life, various subjects will be involved in each problem, but the core subjects of the projects will be Maths, Science and Literacy.
Projects will be designed also with the aim of developing other values, which are and will be the skills required in the present and future society, such as solidarity, ethics, honesty, social entrepreneurship and environmental responsibility.

OBJECTIVES
The Learning for Life project aims at developing:
• report on the competences and skills of European curricula covered by the projects.
• Training material for teachers explaining the PBL methodology and MI (Multiple Intelligences) theory.
• 12 didactical units and (Problem Based Learning) PBL projects focused on Maths, Science and Literacy curriculum goals, with activities that will take into account MI theory. Activities for all types of students / all types of intelligences.

PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS
The Learning for Life project involved:
• 6 contractual partners including training agencies, universities, and schools
• 19 schools
• 125 teachers
• 19 school directors
• 1 719 students
• 33 associated partners including associations, companies, no profit organisations, non-governmental organization, public bodies, schools, school associations, universities, youth organisations.

The target groups were directly involved in the carrying out of the project activities. The Learning for Life project had a relevant impact on their needs as it produced tools and methodologies to support teachers in using PBL methodology and MI theory in order to enhance science teaching and make the students the main actors of their learning process.

ACTIVITIES
Different activities have been carried out throughout the project:
• Analysis of the National Curriculum requirements and decision about the skills and targets to be covered by each Learner Task.
• Definition of guidelines for teachers about PBL and MI methodologies: development of training material about PBL methodology and MI theory.
• Design and development of the Teaching Package: development of 12 learner tasks including curriculum targets.
• Dissemination activities of the project including news, social media, website, presentation of the products and final conference.

IMPACT
As far as the impact of the project is concerned, the Learning for Life project provided:
– Secondary school teachers’ with a new methodology to teach scientific subjects and tackle low achievements in the same subjects
– Students with a new approach to learning that raise their interests and consequently their results and school retention

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118079 Eur

Project Coordinator

Salesianos Urnieta Salesiarrak & Country: ES

Project Partners

• LICEUL”ALEXANDRU CEL BUN”
• Agrupamento de Escolas Rosa Ramalho
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 5 im. Janusza Kusocinskiego w Swidniku