Share, explore, enrich- SEE for better life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Share, explore, enrich- SEE for better life

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: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” these words by David Thoreau are the clue to understand the idea of our project. We want to enhance skills of using the English language through exploring and sharing information about local areas using ICT and other traditional tools. The partner schools combine different kinds of methods to respond to students preferences and interests. The staff will enrich their workshop and develop their professional career. The students will experience sharing cultures, explore their own and other countries in order to enrich their English skills as well as knowledge by creating and using the multimedia guide books.

The partnership “Share, explore, enrich- SEE for better life” consists of five primary schools from: Poland, Turkey, Latvia, Croatia and Italy.
The main objectives of the project are:
-to enhance the students’ English languge skills
-to increase the number of opportunities for professional staff development
-to know cultural and historical herritage and languages of other countries
-to share and adopt innovative learning and teaching methodologies and pedagogical approaches delivering key competences and basic skills, language skills, and focusing on the use of ICT
-to stimulate and activate students with fewer opportunities through their access to high quality activities
-to develop and adapt the programme „The English language teaching/learning of vocabulary and communication using ICT and other techniques” into the curricula of each partner school
-to acquire skills in ICT
-to increase the students’ and teachers’ motivation and self esteem
-to reinforce group work focused on cooperation between students through peer learning activities and workshops

The project activities are planned for about 270 students (60- Poland, 60- Turkey, 30-Latvia, 60-Croatia and 60-Italy) who will work together with about40 eager teachers (PL-8, TR-8, LV-8, CR-8, IT-8) We intend to support students with fewer opportunities (50 students-10/school) using different methods that make them capable of learning. However, we expect our whole schools will benefit from the cooperation.

The attractive way of gaining new skills will be motivating for both students and teachers. The students will be surrounded as much as possible by English. They will create a multimedia guide book (local trips guides, cultural events presentations, local cuisine recipes, regional legend scripts in 6 languages, partnership languages glossary) and they will be real true guides through their everyday life and cultures to each other.

The project results:
-increased students English skills (especially communication, reading comprehension)
-increased students’ and teachers’ ICT skills
-the programme English language teaching/learning of vocabulary and communication using ICT and other techniques
-the interactive tour guide created to share and know the culture of the partners
-enrichment of the teacher’s workshop- exchange of good practices
-workshops based on the cooking book
-QR local area guides a way of sharing cultures and traditions
-improved cultural awareness
-increased ss’ and ts’ motivation and better attitudes towards learning and teaching
-increased students’ and teachers’ self-confidence in communication using English
-better communication and group working skills
-European dimension of all partner schools

The project enables students to participate in a high quality learning environments regardless their financial and social status, disability or educational difficulties. Both students and teachers will be engaged in each stage of the project: planning, implementation, evaluation and dissemination. They will work locally and together during four short-term exchanges of groups of pupils and one short-term joint staff training event. The project activities will be integrated into the curricula of the schools.
The students will develop the skills that foster their employability in future. The sustainable development was the key to plan the project activities. They are designed to enhance students’ skills useful in their life and future professional careers.

Teachers will enrich their workshop in new methods of teaching English (especially with the use of ICT), gain insight on different educational systems, exchange ideas about pedagogical approaches, exercise languages, practice ICT skills. Being able to discuss in detail management systems, curriculum, modern pedagogical methods, problems faced at a legislation level with teachers from different countries all over Europe plays a key role to our progress as school entities towards well-known high quality European educational systems. This project gives us also the opportunity to be trained by each partners.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129130 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im. Krola Zygmunta Augusta & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Osnovna skola ‘Srdoci’
• Gaigalavas pamatskola
• Bolaman Ortaokulu
• Istituto Comprensivo Casa del Fanciullo