Planning Learning Approaches for Nowadays Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Planning Learning Approaches for Nowadays 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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND
Being aware that European schools are confronted with the pressing new digital era, teachers are bound to educate students according to the new demands, in terms of ICTs, new methodologies and pedagogical approaches. We have to get used to tackling this imminent pedagogical innovation in our classrooms. These approaches determine a more active and meaningful learning process, inviting students to participate in their learning process more actively and applying their knowledge and skills in real life.
This project aims at making the participants aware of some useful possibilities in the immense digital market, binding them into the process of the project, applying the techniques in different subjects, working in a cross-curricular way and crossing borders to make lessons motivating.

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Students taking part in this project are between 10 and 15 years old. Some of the partner schools will involve the whole school in this project, which will be working with new technologies and new methodological approaches since they are small schools. The Romanian, Czech and Spanish schools will also involve pupils with economical and learning difficulties in some activities in their countries; Italy will involve pupils with special needs and Germany will involve migrants and refugees.
We aim to involve the school community through events, workshops, debates, videos etc. and to create an open school with this project.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES, METHODOLOGY TO BE USED
We will be working in an interdisciplinary way by applying new methods of teaching-learning skills, implementing new pedagogies by means of ICT, CLIL, PBL, STEAM activities in which not only teachers and students are involved, but also parents and the whole school community.
The activities will be developed into cooperative learning-teaching methodologies.
Students from all school classes will be working with parallel classes from other school forms, primary or secondary, general or vocational school, promoting permeable learning from each other on the basis of equality. Older students can not only teach the younger ones but also work as a mentor. Talented students will teach digitally-challenged children. Students will have the opportunity to get involved in planning different activities to improve their knowledge in all subjects. School staff will be involved in the activities that children will develop.
The motivational key: When students are given the opportunity to deal with real situations, they will learn to handle all the techniques and skills, including oral skills to express themselves and convince others of their ideas in a very competitive economic market.
All partner schools will carry out the same or similar activities, adapted to each age group. However, the results and the final products can be different. This is one major aspect of the project: a similar activity can be developed in different ways depending on students’ characteristics.

RESULTS AND IMPACT
Expected results:
– advancement of digital competence for students and teachers, didactic units that include ICT tools and apps, educational units adapted to children’s skills, also inclusive,
– changes in lessons: apps, ICT, project,
– acquirement of teachers’ competences on PBL, CLIL, E-CLIL methodology,
– acquisition of knowledge by working on STEM subjects.
– increased learning motivation for the young generations of students,
– improvement of the students’ and teachers’ communicative skills in a foreign language,
– dissemination of cooperative work between our student and teacher teams and between any students or teachers from abroad,
– promotion of a conscious approach towards peers without any prejudices or stereotypes.

POTENTIAL LONGER-TERM BENEFITS
1. On teachers and schools:
– introducing new and innovative teaching methods, in accordance with the new digital era
– establishing cooperative work with the staff of partner schools,
– strengthening teamwork and integrating ICT in lessons.
2. On a European and at international level, this project is the beginning of a long and fruitful cooperation between our schools and any new school.
The expected impact this project will have on parents is fostering parent participation in school activities and projects.
We also want our project to have an impact and influence our local community, region and country.

Project Website

http://planserasmus2019.wixsite.com/plans

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152900 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• IES Sierra de la Grana
• Tyrsova ZS a MS Praha 5 – Jinonice, U Tyrsovy skoly 1/430
• Scoala Gimnaziala Stefan cel Mare
• IV Circolo DIdattico “Matteo Mari” – Salerno
• Agrupamento de Escolas nº1 de Abrantes