Strategiczne partnerstwo edukacyjne Powiat Giżycki – Miasto Alytus Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategiczne partnerstwo edukacyjne Powiat Giżycki – Miasto Alytus

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Project context
Giżycko District in Poland and Alytus City in Lithuania wished to solve one of the most important joint educational problems i.e. low achievements in basic skills.
The way to improve the quality of education was to implement more effective teaching methods.
Project objectives
The main objective of this project was and still is to solve the issue of low achievements among students from schools in the area of Gizycko Poviat and Alytus City.
Immediate objectives:
1.Skills of using more effective teaching methods in the environment rich in technology acquisition among 100 teachers.
2.Popularization of adapting these strategies in other schools.
3.Content reinforcement of educational units concerned with teachers development.
The participants
100 teachers, 10 employees of the Centre for Education Development in Gizycko and Counseling and the Education Centre in Alytus and 2 people representing local authority took part in the project.
Description of actions
1. Creating a website used for illustrating the actions, describing the results and presenting the outcomes of intellectual work.
2. A course in Gizycko conducted by a Polish expert on the application of more effective teaching methods and a presentation of schools in Gizycko.
3. A similar course in Alytus conducted by Lithuanian experts- teachers of the Lithuanian partner schools – followed by a presentation of how schools work in Alytus.
4. Teachers’ own work – conducting lessons and recording one of them, creating an open educational resource by the Polish-Lithuanian team and posting the results on the website.
5. A course – an analysis of the outcomes created and formulating conclusions for future school work and recommendations for changes in educational strategies in partner local authority.
6. Modifications in the selected by teachers recorded lessons and chosen educational resources – with the aim of presenting them at a final conference.
7. Popularization of the project results at the final conference, in which other teachers from partner local authorities participated. The result were also sent to other schools in Poland and Lithuania.
Description of the results
1. The result specified in the co-financing agreement
168 people involved in international learning / teaching / training activities – Short training programs for employees within 840 days
2. Other results specified in the application for co-financing
1) Acquiring (deepening) the ability of using the most effective teaching strategies by 100 teachers working in the six partner schools .
2) Raise the training skills of 10 people from educational institutions.
3) Improving the skills of the headmasters in the organization of teacher training.
4) Modernized development plan for six schools.
5) Modernization plan / strategy for the development of education in partner units of local government.
6) Informing 1 teacher about the most effective teaching strategies
7) Digital integration (cooperation) in teaching, training and working with young people in schools.
8) Increase the didactic and pedagogical skills of the people participating in the project (110 people).
Project impacts and potential long-term benefits
The example of teachers and schools participating in the project in the context of competition between schools encourages other teachers and schools to work independently on the quality of education. Working for this cause, strengthened during the project in the abilities of organizing courses, are the educational institutions of local government – the District Educational Development Center in Gizycko and the Alytus Center for Pedagogical and Psychological Aid. These institutions offer similar training for other teachers without applying for EU support. The rise in the quality of education in the schools in the district of Giżycko and Alytus City will increase the student achievement reflected by the results of the examinations, observed by the project promoters and by means of the website being communicated to other interested parties.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222179,05 Eur

Project Coordinator

Powiatowy Zespol Obslugi Szkol i Placowek Oswiatowych & Country: PL

Project Partners

• AlytusDzukija basic school
• Alytus Adult and Youth School
• POWIATOWY OSRODEK ROZWOJU EDUKACJI GIZYCKO
• Zespol Szkol Elektronicznych i Informatycznych im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
• Gimnazjum im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Bystrym
• Alytaus profesinio rengimo centras
• Szkola Podstawowa im. I Dywizji Piechoty