Maintaining an evergreen teaching in the age of 3.0 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Maintaining an evergreen teaching in the age of 3.0

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In view of the growing demand all across Europe of teachers to adapt and put into practice new methodologies in the classroom and the real challenge that the new digitally skilled generation pose to the educational system in general,we felt compelled to reach out for extra support beyond our borders.The aim was that to compare and validate whatever knowledge we may have,teaching through ITC in our classrooms in a transnational project.The object was to widen the scope of our professional practice through the exchange of best practices and create a network of relationships among educational institutions that could effectively help us to face that challenge and build a stronger knowledge and practice in the classes.The three schools partecipating the projects were:IPSSCTS LUIGI EINAUDI,I.E.S. EDUARDO JANEIRO and The Theoretical High School MIHAI IONESCU.You will find a detailed description of the three schools on the official site of the project.
https://sites.google.com/view/einaudi-erasmus-project/home
The use of ICT at school required an organizational transformation of the scholastic learning environment that started a process of rethinking the traditional ways of managing teaching,adapted to the needs of a generation increasingly immersed in digital and therefore with a strong integration between ordinary teaching in the presence,the use of information technology in the classroom,the resources available in the online learning environment,the personal work of pupils at home.There was also a major need of confirming the validity of innovative methodological approaches that made us come to terms with the new concept of DEVELOPING COMPETENCES in our students,which involved leaving behind the idea of teachers as mere transmitters of contents and students as mere receptors,whose knowledge is assessed by tests designed basically to grade their memory skills.”The real guarantee for the future is the skills”.The project was intended to know how the teachers plan and implement activities that allow to customize learning using new technologies.The research represented an excellent opportunity to check how the teachers use technologies as an innovation catalyst.The gobal aim was to better connect with the needs of our students in order to decrease the rate of school drop-out and guarantee that we can adapt to the requirements of this new generation more familiar with the use of screens than with paper-based systems.Early drop-out figures are not high,but still it is an element that calls for attention,since it means creating a pocket of population with low qualifications and subsequently less possibilities of developing in the work field and with even bleaker perspectives of a life-long learning process,as promoted by the European educational guidelines.The project had a positive impact on the teachers involved in terms of their gaining knowledge and confidence in the validity of the new methodologies researched and put into practice in the classroom,and urged them to keep up the efforts in both professional training and innovative practice.The students and their families in general benefit from the new methodologies in teaching like project-based learning,which aimed at being a more engaging,pro-active and hands-on approach,using all the new technologies they had at hand,that better connected with their interests.As to those particularly involved in the mobilities, they benefit from the experience of meeting their peers from other countries,learning to accept and respect the differences they could find in their respective cultures and also among educational systems, as well as raising their awareness as to the importance of learning languages in a common Europe.The three schools have started the journey by a thorough research on the use of itc in the classroom,in books and sites, and research on new methodological approaches.The research produced a vast database of itc literacy that can be consulted in the appropriate section of the official website of the project.
https://sites.google.com/view/einaudi-erasmus-project/home/download-materials-class-3-0/literacy-about-itc
We then created the lessons for the lesson plans by choosing the format for the flipped class and the eas.At this point we have designed some lessons and we have tested them in class in all three schools.During one of the meetings we then chose the best lessons and we shared them by creating a database in a special section of the site,to make it possible to exchange good practices.
https://sites.google.com/view/einaudi-erasmus-project/home/download-materials-class-3-0/lessons
We also decided which applications would be used and we have after some experiments decided which ones.You can consult the framework of the apps used on the appropriate section of the project website.Our final product was the framework of the digital competences a teacher must have in a class 3.0
https://sites.google.com/view/einaudi-erasmus-project/home/our-final-result

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 156383 Eur

Project Coordinator

IPSSCTS L. Einaudi & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Liceul Teoretic Mihai Ionescu
• INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION SECUNDARIA EDUARDO JANEIRO