MUSIC IS……..LIFE LONG LEARNING Erasmus Project

Project Title

MUSIC IS……..LIFE LONG LEARNING

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

From the need to research methodologies and teaching strategies that would allow students, especially those with fewer opportunities, to develop key European competences, partner schools have identified Music as a transversal tool for their development.
The project is divided into the exchange and development of good practices already partially tested: active teaching inspired by the dalcroze method, laboratory practices, experiential teaching, cooperative learning. The skills analyzed were: communication in the mother tongue, mathematics and basic science, digital, learning to learn. A focus has been dedicated to inclusion.
Objectives of the project
Experimenting and exchanging good practices and active musical teaching methods, transversal to other areas of learning
Improve the level of key skills
Encourage students with disadvantages from an angle of inclusion
Building a stimulating and proactive path from early childhood in an evolutionary process that respects the pupil’s nature and enhances
Create an environment of study and research around good practices
Demonstrate the complementarity of practices
Leave concrete tools that can also be used by others
The partners are 5 public schools, of which 4 are generalists with children from childhood to secondary. The Romanian school, on the other hand, is a high school specializing in arts and music and welcomes 575 pupils aged 6 to 18. The Italian school has about 1,200 students, the Spanish one 160, the Portuguese institute about 700 and the Polish one just over 1,000. Approximately 1,400 of the over 3,600 students have been involved, of which 200 with fewer opportunities.
The Polish school is the first experience of European projects, where the other schools have already tried their hand at Eramsus + or Comenius projects.
Six Transnational Project Meetings were held, attended by 43 teachers and school managers. The Joint Training Events were 5 for 34 mobility, compared to 20 financed. Short-term student exchanges were 5 for 92 mobility, compared to 80 expected.
The project work was divided into 5 thematic blocks, marked by international mobility according to the following timetable:
November 2016 Italy First TPM Kick-off Meeting, launch of the first thematic block concerning the competence in the mother tongue led by Spain
March 2017 Spain According to TPM, first Training Event and first Student Exchange, conclusion of the first block and launch of the second dedicated to basic scientific competence led by Romania
May 2017 Romania Third TPM, second Training and Student Exchange Event, conclusion of the second block and start of the third related to the Portuguese-led mathematical and digital skills
November 2017 Portugal Fourth TPM, third Training and Exchange Event, conclusion of the third block and start of the fourth related to the inclusion of a Polish guide
March 2018 Poland Quinto TPM, fourth Training and Exchange Event, conclusion of the fourth block and start of the last one referring to the competence to learn to learn led by Italy
May 2018 Italy Last TPM, Training and Exchange Event, conclusion of the fifth block and event of final dissemination
The teachers shared a methodology through common evaluation columns, which on a scale from 1 to 4 measured the initial level of competence and motivation of the pupils and the final level after the administration of activities with the use of music
The main results obtained were
Students
increase of the average level of competence passed from an initial range of 2.77-3.12 (in the various skills) to 3.27-3.44 and an inequality of the results fell from 18.2% -24.2% to 13 , 5% -17.2%. Similar results were obtained on the sample of pupils with fewer opportunities
increase of motivation: from a range of 2.88-2.95 to an interval of 3.29-3.49
Teachers
increase of knowledge and teaching skills, focus on working for skills with active teaching methods, enrichment of educational tools, collected in 107 activity sheets realized in the Handbook of Good Practices
Participating organizations
improvement of educational planning, professionalism of teachers, climate and school spirit, enrichment of educational tools. These aspects were evaluated by school managers with a score of 3.71
improvement of the image and the attractiveness of the school, valued at 4.00 by the managers
Lastly, we believe that the project has produced long-term benefits:
Raising awareness of other schools adjacent to educational innovation and opportunities for European projects
Strengthening and promotion of the spirit and the founding principles of the European Union among local communities
Future citizens more competent, aware and with a greater civic sense

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148297,94 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo di Alba Adriatica & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Liceul de Arte Regina Maria Alba Iulia
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 2 im. Jana Kochanowskiego
• Ceip Gloria Arenillas
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria