Let’s be creative and learn with art Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s be creative and learn with art

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Health and wellbeing; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The countries involved in the project Let’s be creative and learn with art are: Slovenia, Spain, Romania, Portugal and Greece, and the aim is to help develop, both in students and especially in teachers, content based learning strategies through a creative and active use of ART in all its forms. Our aim is based on the identification of similar problems and needs arising from the 5 schools involved, namely there is a growing discontent in schooling due to ineffective teaching methods and knowledge based solely on factual transmission of contents. As attested by questionnaires made by students and headmasters’ lesson observations, traditional teaching methods still prevail in the classroom: teachers present the content according to the curriculum and thus, students are mostly listeners not generally active in the learning process. The results of grading show that students know many facts, but have lower grades in tasks that require useful knowledge (connecting information, anticipation, analysis, synthesis). At this point only 10 % of teachers use teaching methods connected with ART and active teaching methods. Students described that an ideal day in school would be to use interactive technology, learn outside the classrooms and work on projects with emphasis on theatre, music and creative movement. We will try to make this a reality benefitting to students, teachers and the learning process. In order to overcome the shortcomings identified in the questionnaire, the project Let’s be creative and learn with art will be focused on improving teaching methods and introducing teaching through ARTS.
In our project, priority will be given to strengthening the profiles of the teaching professions which will increase the students’ motivation for learning and consequently their achievements in knowledge. We will raise the understanding of social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity by promoting inclusion and cooperation of people with different abilities and learning styles.
Six international exchanges will be carried out in this project, one for teachers and the rest for students. We have already found areas in which we can cooperate (theatre, dance, singing, using ICT) and emphasized those that can be strengthen with the help of external institutions (experiments, teaching children with disabilities, art and music therapy). With cooperative activities, exchanging teaching practice, workshops and mobilities we will improve teaching competences in communicational, collaborative and ICT areas. Activities will include the use of effective teaching methods with art included, lesson observations, useful workshops, visits to learning institutions, the making of applications, public video guides, activities to encourage peer communication and creativity among teachers, headmasters and students.
We will aim towards an encouraging environment for teachers and students with headmasters’ aid. We will achieve a higher quality by implementing new seminars for teachers, based on new teaching methods with art included, job shadowing, introducing project work into regular lessons in all classes, modernized extracurricular activities and an upgraded work plan for talented students and students with disabilities.
With developing new art based teaching methods the teaching career will become more attractive and diverse which will increase motivation and satisfaction in the teachers’ daily work. Teachers will improve their annual teaching and lessons planning with at least 20 % of new methods involved. All prepared lesson plans and video material will be shared in an open eTwinning project and on public channel or on occasional international teachers’ conferences. At the end of each mobility we will prepare a public show, where we will show our best outcomes. We will also prepare a seminar for teachers from other schools in which we will present the best teaching methods based on art.
With different teaching methods and other project activities we will influence on higher creativity in students, increase their learning motivation and enable success and higher knowledge. Students will make their own Portfolio that will help them change and improve their learning habbits and raise the responsibility for their actions.
At the end of the project we will have a public platform with good teaching and learning examples for teachers and students, headmasters’ guide for motivating and supportive school environment. A questionnaire at the end of the project, an improved school and teachers annual plan, results of national tests and the students’ portfolio will show improvement at the end of the project. All partners of the project are highly motivated for cooperative work in this project. We are aware of the current school situation and prepared to make changes that will bring satisfaction and higher results into our daily work and for our students. Let’s be creative, learn with art and make changes today.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164148 Eur

Project Coordinator

Osnovna sola Dolenjske Toplice & Country: SI

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Santa Teresa
• Scoala Gimnaziala Tudor Vladimirescu
• Agrupamento de Escolas Marinhas do Sal, Rio Maior
• 2nd Gymnasium of Kaisariani