MY DIGITAL SCHOOL BAG Erasmus Project

Project Title

MY DIGITAL SCHOOL BAG

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Five European secondary schools from Denmark,France, Poland, Italy and Spain with very different realities:”Kerteminde 10. klasse center” in Denmark is a 10th grade center (KTM10) part of a youth center and has four main classrooms and also a range of different classrooms such as a school kitchen for cooking class , a physics room, a crafting room and a music studio. They have about 76 students of 15 – 18 years of age (12 of them are refugees) and the number of permanent teaching staff is 7. “Lycée Jean Aicard” in France is a state secondary school located in the south of France, with one section of CLIL in the subject area of History in the Spanish language. It is called the Euro section. The Lycée Jean Aicard welcomes 1,350 pupils and students in general sections like Sciences, Humanities and Economics and also in technological sections such as Management, or Health and Social Studies. There are about 100 teachers.” Istituti Vinci of Ateneo Group” in Italy is an upper secondary education school (14-19 years old) in the region of Lombardy with two study fields: a technical school of transport and logistics (founded in 1992), specializing in airplane conduction (aviation), and a linguistic high school (founded in 1988). The institute has two branches, one in Gallarate and the other in Varese, with a total number of 29 teachers and about 220 students. “Gminne Centrum Edukacji in Wawrzeńczyce” in Poland is a secondary school situated in a rural area, 25 km from Cracow. There are 120 students aged 13-16 and 20 teachers. The school is a part of a group of schools which also include a kindergarten and a primary school, they are all managed by the same headmistress. The school provides general education, the languages taught are English as first foreign language and German, the second. English is taught from the kindergarten and German is introduced in the secondary school, at the age of 13. “Instituto de Educación Secundaria Profesor Juan Pulido Castro” is the coordinator country and is a state secondary school which offers compulsory secondary education, baccalaureate and vocational training, located in the downtown of Telde, a region of 100 Km2 and 100000 inhabitants in the east of the island of Gran Canaria (The Canary Islands, Spain). The centre has got 740 students from 12 to 18 years old, 58 teachers and 4 non-teaching staff. We teach English as the first foreign language and French as second foreign language .
These five countries joined to make a two-year project as a strategic partnerships for the exchange of good practices related to the use of ICT tools (tablets, digital books) and ICT supported learning applications and the name of the proyect was “MY DIGITAL SCHOOL BAG”
.The main objectives were to promote the European awareness increase for the secondary school and its whole community: teachers, students and parents, to promote the developing of the cross-curricular key competences (learning to learn, entrepreneurship, learning autonomy), particularly in the first (English) and second (French) foreign language competence in a European learning context, to improve the professional competences of the teachers in the field of ICT and bilingual teaching (CLIL project) in order to face the growing demand for a more innovate methodology, to know other european educational systems and their experiences as regards the integration of ICT tools and resources in their contents and to promote the implementation of innovate teaching strategies, especially focused on foreign language learning and bilingual projects, intended to improve the motivation and marks of the students.
The number of students participated in this proyect were 64 aged of 15-16 years old.We decided this ages because they had some experience regarding the CLIL project and a more mature use of new technologies. Besides, they were less dependent from their parents. The number of teachers involved in this proyect were 30. They were profil were teachers engaged in various educational projects and interested in collaborate in the international opening of their centers. Some of them were key persons with an extensive career and in charge of demanding responsibilities, but still willing to learn and share.
The activities were mainly based on the chance to have a real encounter with other European students and teachers in a different and more stimulating learning environment in order to work together. On the other hand, they promoted the cultural exchange, they shared experiences and knowledge, the self-confidence of pupils and the possibility of making new friends. For teachers, was a chance to strengthen links between colleagues and other European secondary schools. The activities also promoted the real exchange of good practices and teaching skills. Through the attendance of teaching in English in mixed classes during mobilities, studentsl experienced the value of CLIL method in an international educational environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 104137,99 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto de Educación Secundaria Profesor Juan Pulido Castro & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ISTITUTI VINCI – ATENEO GROUP SAS
• Gminne Centrum Edukacji w Wawrzenczycach
• Lycée Jean Aicard
• kerteminde 10. klasse center