Let’s Learn How to Learn! – Learning skills development for secondary school students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Learn How to Learn! – Learning skills development for secondary school students

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

Europe faces serious challenges since its economies lack relevant skills to match labour market needs. 40% of European employers have difficulty finding people with the skills they need to grow and innovate. European education and training systems continue to fall short in providing the right skills for employability. Many young people leave education and training without being sufficiently prepared to enter the labour market. Many people work in jobs that do not match their skills and run the risk of facing serious, persistent problems in the labour market and experiencing poverty and social exclusion. Skills mismatches hinder productivity and growth and affect Member States’ resilience to economic shocks. These skills gaps and mismatches are striking and growing concern for European industry’s competitiveness.
LELLE2 was intended to be a European flagship project in learning skills development that provides solution to the problem of skills gaps and mismatches. Its partnership was specifically aimed at regional cooperation and through the national educational development institution partners, it had a strong strategic dimension and high sustainable impact.
Main objective of the project was to equip secondary school students with learning skills needed for their studies and future employment. Innovation of the project was it integrated learning skills development into subjects and normal course of class lessons. In doing so, it met two challenges. One was how to provide learning skills development for students without changing the curricula. The other was how to provide skills development that did not put extra burdens on teachers’ and students’ shoulders. The project also provided teachers professional development that enabled them to give marketable knowledge to growing number of students who are competitive at European level and able to study in higher education or to find job.
The project objective was reached through the elaboration of five intellectual outputs: The Best Practice Collection is an analysis of good practices in learning skills development on the field of Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Managing own Learning Processes. “How to Teach How to Learn”–training material for secondary school teachers and teachers training is equip teachers with skills development methods and techniques. In Output3 we produced a learning skills assessment tool and teachers could assess secondary school students’ learning skills twice during the school year. Output4 pedagogical materials were produced by secondary school teachers for skills development. Teachers provided students learning skills development throughout the year. In doing so, they integrated learning skills development methods and techniques into subjects and normal course of class lessons, and will teach students in a renewed manner. The fifth output of the project is an Open Educational Resource, an online knowledge share portal called “European Learning Skills Development Gateway”. Aim of the Gateway was to construct a growing open educational resource for learning skill development methods.
Objectives of the project were to promote innovative methods and pedagogies, and to create new teaching methods and tools in secondary education. The project supports the professional development of educators, especially in dealing with use of new teaching methods and tools. LELLE2 has developed long-lasting partnerships between learning institutions and education support bodies, with a view to promote lifelong learning through producing state-of-art educational materials and creating further collaborations that served the same goal. LELLE2 aimed at strengthening the profile of the teaching profession. Aim of our regional strategic partnership in school education was to foster cooperation in the development of education and learning institutes in East-Central Europe.
LELLE2 was a consortium of seven players (secondary schools, national education research and development institutions and universities) from Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania. The project was a fruit of joint work and collaboration among equal partners.
The 2019-2021 COVID period influenced the project in a not so favorable ways. Fortunately the Handbooks and the lesson plans were ready before school years started in 2019, also the first measurement of the students could take place in person. However in 2019-2020 teaching period went online. On the one hand Gateway exercises served as an excellent platform which enabled online and blended learning teaching. Yet, on the other hand, teachers developed lesson plans had to be altered as they were mainly prepared for offline teaching. In this way skill development did not showed the result we expected to see. The second measurement of students’’ skill development therefore did not show significant development. The project period had to be extended which enabled however teachers to develop more exercises in 4 languages.

Project Website

http://lelle2.gtk.uni-pannon.hu/en/home/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 282061 Eur

Project Coordinator

PANNON EGYETEM & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Statny pedagogicky ustav
• Kuressaare Gümnaasium
• Liceul Teoretic Teglas Gabor
• Cirkevna spojena skola MARIANUM, Ul. biskupa Kiralya 30, Komarno
• Szekszárdi I. Béla Gimnázium, Kollégium és Általános Iskola
• ESZTERHAZY KAROLY EGYETEM