Let´s get to know each other better Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let´s get to know each other better

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

Project name: “Let’s get to know each other better.”

Our nations have lived together in one country of Czechs and Slovaks for seventy years. For seventy years we have built one great educational system where we have been educated. We have been mentally and communicatively so close as any other country in the world. After the separation in 1993 we started building two separate school systems, which were brought close again after joining the European nation. After the period of separating we are in the period of converging the countries.

With this project we wanted to show the young generation, which is educated in our partner schools, ways of getting together and work on common projects in the future. This not only helped the Czechs and the Slovaks but the other nations as well. With this project we wanted to broaden the knowledge of our mother tongue languages, exchanging our competences, and building new partnerships in sporting events.

The main objective of this mobility project was to help the teachers to gain abilities to make their teaching more effective,we gave them space to be more creative, boosted their self esteem,they gained information about various educational systems and are able to use all these new information in their everyday activities with students.

Participants:

-32 students of lower secondary education, who exchanged their strategies and methods in athletics and floorball. These students had two exchanges.
-12 teachers, who exchanged and improved their competences in Physical Education, Mother tongue, Maths, Biology and Technical Education.

There were two short term mobilities for students, and two short term educational activities for teachers. According to the duration of the project, wide range of activities, and a number of participants varied forms of methodologies were used.

By project implementation teachers:

– improved their professional competencies,

– developed more effective ways of educating students,

– broadened their knowledge in educational methods and current trends, therefore can be more innovative,

– improved their knowledge about our countries and culture,

– improved their project management skills,

– got a chance to evaluate their teaching skills,

– got more motivation for further work

Students:

-could see the importance of the language skills,

– boosted their self esteem,

– experienced different types of education,

– got a chance to critically evaluate their educational system,

– became aware of themselves as participants of the European Nation,

– improved their learning and physical competencies

– learned to respect the values and culture of other countries,

– developed ability to cooperate and respect common values such as self esteem, motivation and respecting the others,

– raised awareness of multicultural values and rights,

– learned about history, culture, traditions and customs in participant countries

Impact on the participants:

They:

– improved their professional competencies and learned new and innovative ways in education,

– improved their language skills,

– developed awareness of values and culture of other countries,

– improved their project-based learning skills

– raised their self esteem,

-gained more motivation,

– improved their physical competencies

Impact on the participant institutions:

– employees gained higher self esteem, and improved professional, language and project-based learning skills,

– we can use new modern, innovative and creative methods now,

-we can get better achievements in sport competitions,

– the institution gained higher rating,

– gained new contacts and friendships,

Improvement of skills and competencies of students, teachers and school management are a long term assets of this project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32560 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladna skola Jozefa Horaka & Country: SK

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola Moravska Trebova, Palackeho 1351, okres Svitavy