SWOT Scouts Erasmus Project

Project Title

SWOT Scouts

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

In consonance with the spirit of ET 2020, European countries promote the acquisition of a set of key competences which will allow our youths to become active, responsible, qualified citizens. In 2017, an eTwinning partnership of four European schools was formed in order to exchange good practices towards an emotional competence. Istituto Tecnico Industriale Liceo Scienze Applicate Majorana (Brindisi, Italy), OOU Vlado Tasevski (Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Osnovna skola Otona Ivekovica (Zagreb, Croatia) and Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Azcona (Almería, Spain) started the project “SWOT Scouts”, the aim of which is to implement emotional education in their schools.
The four schools are concerned about school violence, lack of values, lack of achievement motivation and poor emotions control that affects mood, social behaviour and learning.
The project title “SWOT Scouts” alludes to a self-exploratory journey along one’s inner Strengths and Weaknesses, and the Opportunities and Threats found when setting a goal.
The objectives of the project are the following ones:
O1.To contribute to the development of students’ key competences through a project that enhances their emotional competence.
O2.To train students in emotional awareness, the respect of values and finding self-motivation, promoting positive change in their attitudes.
O3.To enrich participants’ intercultural awareness through the cooperation with partner countries in the context of a Europe united in diversity.
O4.In the longer term, to ascertain whether a programme on emotional intelligence may influence our schools positively in terms of: decreasing disruptive behaviour, decreasing intervention from school psychologists, and increasing levels of motivation which might have an impact on rates of absenteeism and early leaving.

The main actors that will take part in this project will be
-The four project coordinators
– Groups of secondary school students, including hearing-impaired students and others with special needs who will take part locally. Four students
will be chosen for each of the programmed mobilities.
– Other teachers collaborating locally in the school activities, including eTwinning members. School mobilities will require that some of them take
the role of accompanying people.

A fundamental part of the methodology for project implementation relies on eTwinning. The activities will be carried out mainly through this platform. The project coordinators and other teachers will contribute to the exchange of expert documents and teaching materials on the TwinSpace. Student interaction and project activities will be documented through photographs, videos, padlets or presentations and they will be asked to comment on their awareness learning process. The activities posted on the TwinSpace will be planned carefully so as to achieve the project aims. These include socialising, intercultural awareness, communicating in English, analysing facts and behaviours to understand others, drawing, designing a product, role-playing, writing scripts for videos, etc. Selected activities and workshops will be programmed to be done during mobilities. A fundamental part of this project should be the opportunity to strengthen emotional liasons among partners through physical closeness. As for objective no.4, a school programme about emotional education is meant to find its place in the partner schools. This will necessarily imply a continuation of the project activities in order to evaluate the impact on school harmony and academic results.

During the project’s period of implementation, several products will be developed:
P1: Digital book of the project.
P2: Treasure hunt game “SWOT Scouts”.
P3: Didactic guides for teachers who want to work on emotional intelligence & materials necessary for the activities.
P4: Film about human relations.
P5: Emotional education needs questionnaires with results analysis.

The participation in this project will contribute to the development of the involved schools in the long-term. One of the project’s objectives is to ascertain whether a school programme about emotional education can have positive impact on school life and pupils’ wellbeing by showing decreased rates of intervention in school violence and emotional distress, as well as increased level of motivation and positive energy. That is why the four partner schools purport to study the impact of the programme for a longer period.
In addition, with SWOT Scouts there will be a change in methodology to PBL and the use of ICT tools; it will also contribute to communication in English and social, civic, intercultural and critical thinking competences. For teachers the outcome will be improved collaborative, digital and classroom management skills, and the ability to help pupils give their best.

Project Website

https://swotscouts.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64449,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Azcona & Country: ES

Project Partners

• IISS “Ettore Majorana”
• OOU Vlado Tasevski
• Osnovna skola Otona Ivekovica