Let’s Create a Motivating Learning Environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Create a Motivating Learning Environment

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

LET’S CREATE A MOTIVATING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROJECT is aimed at teachers who support teaching with different learning environments and who wish to gain additional professional competences in the wider European area in order to enhance their professional profile and raise the quality of teaching. Learning environment is a factor that unquestionably influences motivation, health, well-being, climate and, above all, the quality of teaching. Six European schools (Slovenia, Lithuania, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Germany) involved in this project sense weaknesses in our learning environments, opportunities for improvement and good practice to share with others. We all conclude that our practice is still quite traditional. Classrooms are classically arranged, ICT is rarely included in teaching, classical teaching methods are still extensively used, the use of resources is monotonous, the school has a fairly uniformed look, and we do not pay enough attention for creating a pleasant and healthy environment. The lessons are mostly one-way, and teachers rarely teach outside the classroom. This affects the motivation, health, well-being, climate and quality of the lessons. The project aims to improve the classic routine and learning environments and make it more modern, innovative. By participating internationally, we are convinced we can improve learning environments better, faster and to a much greater extent than we could in national contexts. The project will bring experience and good practices of other European countries to our institutions. This way we will follow the guidelines of modern learning environment in European standards and accelerate the process of internationalization of the school space.
We will share examples of good practices and experiences that will enable us to develop a learning environment in a holistic sense: stimulating-learning, motivational, health and well-being friendly, supported by modern ICT, less uniformed, in short innovative. Each school will provide an example of good practice that addresses the common theme of the project. Greek school will share their experience in delivering lessons in unconventional learning environments, German school will share good practice and ideas for creating an innovative ICT-enabled learning environment, Portuguese school will provide examples of good practice for student-centred lessons, Hungarian school will share how their learners actively spend their free time in school, Lithuanian school will present ideas for innovative school space arrangement and Slovenian school systemic solutions and activities promoting health in school and in general. We will address the school space holistically, thus surpassing the classrooms in which lessons are taught and also the greater part of the remaining time that learners spend in school. We will develop it through the process, with thoughtful smaller steps that will not require major investments. By changing the perspective of the learning environment perception and investing in human resources, we will gradually develop it with the available material and financial resources.
The main objective of the project is to create a modern learning environment, while encouraging, motivating and empowering teachers to gradually replace classical methods with contemporary and collaborative approaches and to introduce team-based learning approaches, both in the classroom and within the team. As part of the project activities, we will train and motivate teachers and students to use a variety of online tools and programs to be prepared for the challenges of distance learning.
Developing and at the same time changing different segments of learning environment is crucial to achieve goals of our project. (There is no sense in creating a comfortable environment if not supporting health and modern didactic approaches, and, similarly, there is no sense in studying in a virtual forest when there is an actual one nearby).
The project also targets a group of learners who will test modern learning environments (technology, modern approaches, quality of motivational factors and didactic approaches …), and at the same time be important multipliers of the transfer of good practice. We will always include at least one socially vulnerable learner in the LTT team. By involving learners in project activities, we will increase their active role in co-creating life and work in school, develop their foreign language and intercultural competences, increase motivation for learning and school-related activities, and enhance their sense of belonging to school. The project is designed in a way that during the period between LTTs, we will focus on the essential emphasis of the previous mobility and prepare for the next one. This will maintain the common thread of the project and the transfer of project activities and results to learners and teachers who are not participants in the mobility.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195380 Eur

Project Coordinator

PRIMARY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN APACE & Country: SI

Project Partners

• 7th Gymnasium of Heraklion
• Comenius-Schule
• Batthyány Kázmér Általános Iskola
• Marijampoles Petro Armino progimnazija
• ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA FERNÃO MENDES PINTO