“Modern methods of learning/teaching and assessment – a way to individual progress” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Modern methods of learning/teaching and assessment – a way to individual progress”

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; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

While analyzing students’ learning achievements in three regions it has been noticed that the achievements do not always correspond to the national average and one of the factors that might have a positive influence on students’ achievements is the improvement of students’ personal progress. Considering this situation, the problem, which has been solved during the project activities, was the implementation of new modern teaching methods and methods of student personal progress’ assessment. Seeking systematic changes in the educational system of participating regions in the project, the decision has been made as concerns implementation of interregional strategical partnership, the impact of the project has been done on general education. The project was implemented together with partners from three countries: Lithuania (Prienai Region Municipality and Prienai “Azuolas” progymnasium, Prienai “Revuona” basic school, Prienai “Ziburys” gymnasium), Portugal (Alijó Municipality Government and school Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho II) and Spain (School Ildefonso Serrano). This kind of partnership was chosen because it helped us to achieve the aims of this project and to implement sustainable changes in education quality in schools. The main problem we tried to solve was the average results of mathematics and all of us felt the need to update teaching and learning methods, monitoring and evaluation methods of the student’s individual progress. The strategies of schools foresee the increase of educational success in the area of mathematics. All partner schools had similar strategic goals according to education quality, so international partnership helped us to find more possibilities to solve relevant problems together.
Seeking the aim of the project with the help of teachers’ reflective practices, new modern teaching methods and methods of student personal progress’ assessment were implemented keeping their continuation in the groups of different aged students. In order to achieve this aim, teachers who work with students from different age groups were gathered together for the searching, testing, and applying effective, modern individual progress encouraging assessment and teaching methods, and there were made agreements concerning the continuation of applied methods in groups of different age levels. The agreements were established at municipal and school level legislation, thus ensuring the sustainability of project outcomes. Following the practices of implementing the project activities, methodological recommendations were prepared on the application of modern teaching and assessment methods at different age levels. The essentiality of all project activities is to strengthen the learning educational community (school, municipality, as well as at an interregional level) in order to improve student learning achievements through new and effective methods for assessing their individual progress in different age levels. That is, the progress of ongoing discussions about the activities of the project, with the mutually agreed help of learning together, partners looked for the most suitable alternatives and made the most effective decisions on teaching, assessment, and improving individual student learning progress.
The project target groups were students, teachers, schools administration, representatives of founders. In all countries (Lithuania, Portugal, and Spain) more than 50 percent of teachers, 100 percent of administration from schools partners, and 20 percent of students participated in the project activities, also more than 70 percent of staff from municipalities took part in the project activities.
3 transnational learning, teaching, or training activities (workshops) were organized (1 workshop in each region – 2 live and 1 online), 3 project meetings (2 live and 1 online ) were held (1 project meeting in each region). To sum up, there were 63 mobilities. 20 lessons were organized in each region implementing the new teaching, learning, and evaluation methods of individual learning progress during the lessons. The intellectual product was presented during 3 virtual multiplying events.
We constructed the project activities in such a way that new teaching/learning methods would not only be tested but also their impact would be analyzed. At the beginning of the project, schools in all three regions identified problematic areas for teaching mathematics and later observed changes in the progress and achievements of the students involved in the project. During the project, each school performed three diagnostic measurements, the results of which confirmed that the achievements of the students participating in the project lessons improved in all selected areas of mathematics teaching/learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129293,7 Eur

Project Coordinator

Prienu rajono savivaldybes administracija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• IES ILDEFONSO SERRANO
• Prienu ,,Revuonos” pagrindine mokykla
• Prienu ,,Azuolo” progimnazija
• Município de Alijó
• Prienu Ziburio gimnazija
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho II, Alijó
• CEIP CARLOS DE LECEA