RECOGNIZE – REFINE – RECHARGE: Getting Students Involved Erasmus Project

Project Title

RECOGNIZE – REFINE – RECHARGE: Getting Students Involved

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

The main objective of this program is to exchange good teaching practices between teachers on an international platform, to get as much feedback on these practices and experience-related options as possible to be able to provide our students with:

1) more engaging classes
2) more easily understandable subject material
3) role models of life-long-learning in action
4) classes and teachers that students are excited to learn from.

Our aim is to introduce teachers to many teaching materials, good methods of teaching and to come up with new ideas to serve our students in the best, most modern and most effective way possible. We will find practical ways we can take new ideas into our own classrooms as well as taking lessons out of the classroom into the environment around us.
The title of project is: Recognize – Refine – Recharge: Getting students involved. The focus of the project is to recognize good teaching practices, refine current teaching practices and recharge old teaching practices that continue to have value in today’s environment. We are organizing teacher training mobilities to each partner-school to have a natural environment to observe the methods in practice. Participants of this project are three primary schools in each of the following, Kaarina in Finland, Mersin in Turkey and Kalisz in Poland. From each school there will be 5 teachers travelling and participating in each partner school meeting. Every partner school has their own core competence area that they will introduce and lecture about in their own schools to the visiting project teachers and then provide opportunities to the visitors to observe these techniques in practice in the classroom. During mobility meetings students will be introduced to the visiting teach groups, as well as watch videos prepared by the visitors which will enlighten students on foreign countries, foreign schools and foreign students.

The focus of the project is in four areas: Learning By Doing, Outdoor learning, Collaborative learning and Technology in learning. In Finland teachers will be trained in robotics and programming and will be introduced to iPad-learning in all subjects. They will be introduced to outdoor learning with a mobile phone game. In Turkey they will be introduced to learning-by-doing-practices and reading comprehension by coding. In Poland there will be interdisciplinary projects related to art.

The methodologies to be used in carrying out this Project are workshops and discussions / debates on the merits of each teaching method, teaching practices, teleconference meetings and shadowing lessons.

The project and its results seek to develop, renew and diversify teaching practices through international co-operation and benefit the learning of current and future students for years to come. The diversified and renewed teaching practices will translate into improved learning environments for all students in all participating project schools. The planned reports and outcomes will be shared with recommendations to all other teachers in these partner schools who aren’t directly participating in the project. Material from mobility workshops will be provided to all participants for in-house teacher training which can be used for future lesson planning.

All participants will collect information and ideas from all mobility activities and new teaching practices will be introduced into all partner schools. Schools will write reports to include each meeting’s outcomes, their experiences and opinions of each teaching method and share it with all other partners. At the end of the Project we will have a stock of good teaching materials to add to our current teaching materials. Activities and new teaching practices will be shared on international digital platforms like: eTwinning, School Education Gateway, and the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform for the benefit of all teachers. We will also hold a Skype meeting after this project is completed to wrap-up and collect all post-project thoughts and experiences. Because the pedagogical focus of this project is aimed to benefit pupils, we want to follow up with every school’s actions concerning these matters.

The long term benefits of our project will be that students have RECHARGED-REFINED teachers who are motivated to teach as effectively as possible. Students will RECOGNIZE a difference in their teachers’ approaches to teaching after the project has been wrapped up. We can organize training workshops for other teachers and introduce the teaching practices that we have recognized and refined and also methods that we have recharged during our project.
The most important target is to make learning easier, longer-lasting, more enjoyable and more effective for every current student and for every future students for as many teachers as possible. Take this opportunity to “Recognize – Refine – Recharge” teaching skills and techniques will improve our ability to “Get students involved” in their own learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56210 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kotimäen koulu & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Prywatna Szkola Podstawowa “Jagiellonczyk”
• OZEL GUNEY GELISIM ORTAOKULU