Supporting skills acquisition and competences for students with intellectual disabilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Supporting skills acquisition and competences for students with intellectual disabilities

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Pedagogy and didactics; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

Project “Supporting skills acquisition and competences for students with intellectual disabilities” was implemented by two special schools: Special School Complex in Słupia near Kępno (Poland) and Bishopswood School in Sonning Common (United Kingdom).
These facilities are attended by students with intellectual disabilities (mild, moderate or severe) and / or autism who also very often have coupled disabilities (e.g. paralysis of the limbs, hearing loss, amblyopia and many others). Our students face many educational challenges. The most common recurring difficulties are:
– impaired ability to perform mathematical operations, e.g. subtraction instead of addition and division instead of multiplication;
– inability to match relevant mathematical operations to real situations;
– lack of understanding of the relationships necessary to perform memory calculations;
– failure to notice numerical relationships;
– lack of ability to apply their knowledge, e.g. learned mathematical operations, in new situations;
– problems reading and writing.
16 teachers (8 from PL and 8 from UK) took part in the project and developed 22 primary competences (10 from UK, 12 from PL) in the scope described above. These educators also developed their methodological workshop to more effectively help students overcome educational difficulties and acquire the skills and competences they need for current and future functioning. To this end, they exchanged good practices, developed new solutions, created innovative methods and tools, and also participated in training, including in the use of Photon robots in teaching mathematics.
Thanks to the project activities, the following products have been created, available on page http://zssslupia.pl/index.php/wspolpraca-szkol-ka2-polska-wielka-brytania/rezultaty-i-dobre-praktyki :
1. EBOOK Description of methods supporting the development of mathematical skills in teaching people with mental disabilities
2. Event agenda – Maths Day
3. Description of methods supporting the development of mathematical skills in teaching people with intelectual disabilities
4. The use of Photon Robots in shaping mathematical skills and competences in students with intellectual disabilities
5. Mathematical skills and competences and social competencies and use of them in real situations
6. ICT and other tools in teaching basic mathematical competences in students with mental disabilities
7. Situational scenes facilitating the teaching of mathematics to moderately and severely intellectually disabled students
8. Fingertip Multiplication Table – Instructions on an innovative method
9. World Multiplication Table Day – scenario
10. Mathematics with a tablet – guide
11. Schedule of actions to support the development of skills and key competences for students with mental disabilities
12. Worksheets with mathematical tasks for students with intellectual disabilities
13. Pedagogical innovation – coding mathematical operations in colorful cups
14. Have fun and learn! Mathematic contest developing key skills and competence of students with intelectual disability
15.Catalog of Maths lesson plans for students with intellectual disabilities developed during the project
16. Cultural preparation of beneficiries Great Britain
17. Glossary of mathematical terms in English and Polish
18. Desk calendar
19. Leeflet Get the power of Erasmus+
20. Examples of math tasks for students with autism using the Picture Exchange Communication System method
21. MOVIE Multiplication table by finger method
22. Fun and games – AGENDA of mathematical obstacle course
23. Workshops – MATHEMATICS WITHOUT REST, SCOTTIE GO – modern didactic tools supporting teacher’s work in education of students with intellectual disability
24. Catalog of Maths lesson plans for students with intellectual disabilities developed during the project by teachers from a British school
25. Legotherapy and LEGO blocks in mathematics
The set of these documents is a basic skills development program based on learning through experience.
The project also undertook numerous activities disseminating the results, in which the estimated number of recipients at the end of the project is 5600 people. The plans of organizations participating in the project include further exploitation of results, including in projects implemented on the eTwinning Platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 67295 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Szkol Specjalnych & Country: PL

Project Partners

• BISHOPSWOOD SCHOOL