T-BOX Erasmus Project

Project Title

T-BOX

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our cross-sectoral partnership combines the efforts of 10 organisations (5 schools and 5 training providers) from five European countries (BG, PL, ES, PT, DK) in an attempt to create a unique innovative education tool to support teachers in their daily work with V to VII grade pupils. It is called T-BOX (Teacher’s Box). The idea for T-BOX project has emerged from challenges schools in our partnership face in improving motivation and engagement of pupils in V-VII grades. Coming out of primary school, these learners enter a totally different environment with new teachers across various subjects. According to our observations at school level, the level of demotivation across pupils in this stage of education has been steadily rising. The long term negative consequences from this trend being risk of early school leaving and/or low educational achievements.

We distinguish 3 subgroups of teachers: 1. Innovators and inspirators – they are already transforming their classroom environment and boost motivation of their pupils through their own teaching style. Our project will provide them with new methods to keep on with their good work. 2. Mainstream – they comply with requirements of the education system, but are not willing to be proactive in trying new ideas and methods. Our project will inspire them to be more creative and dedicated. 3. Demotivated – this group is hardly complying with requirements of their job and is highly unpopular among pupils. Our project will try to revive their motivation for work.

The overall goal of T-BOX project is to enhance capacities of teachers to maintain sustainable motivation for learning and active engagement of pupils in V-VII grades.

This will be achieved through a set of concrete and measurable objectives: develop a multilingual T-BOX set with 25 methods for interactive work with pupils; develop a multilingual T-BOX app; promote the T-BOX set and T-BOX app across professional teachers’ communities in partner countries and Europe; develop and launch a sustainability roadmap for T-BOX outputs exploitation beyond project lifetime and across Europe.

The project activities will be grouped in 4 main work processes (WP), which can be summarized as follows:

1. WP1 – Management. Main activities: strategic documents design and adoption, 4 partner meetings, tasks allocations, reporting, monitoring, quality assurance, risk management, communication with National Agency and internal evaluation.

2. WP2 – Development of T-BOX cards. This process will involve several main stages: Sample Method card design and Distribution of thematic categories among partners; Idea Generation; Methods description and card box design; Translations in partner languages; Piloting in classroom, evaluation reports and fine tuning.

3. WP3 – Development of T-BOX app. This process will involve several main stages: Prototyping; Teachers’ review and feedback; Development of first full version of the app in English; Translations into partner languages; Piloting among teachers, evaluation reports and fine tuning.

4. WP4 – Dissemination and exploitation. Main activities to be delivered: project website and social media channel development, production and distribution of news items, delivering presentations to national and European events, direct meetings with stakeholders, promotion meetings with teachers at partner schools.

The additional tangible project results, along with T-BOX cards and T-BOX app we expect can be summarised as follows:
– 1 project website in 6 language versions (EN, BG, DK, PL, PT, ES);
– 1 Social media profile of the project – Facebook page;
– 50 teachers (10 per country) participate in piloting of intellectual outputs;
– 300 pupils participate in piloting of T-BOX cards;
– 100 teachers (20 per country) utilize T-BOX cards in their daily practice;
– 600 pupils (120 per country) engaged in T-BOX activities;
– 600 teachers and 350 stakeholders reached through dissemination activities.

The main qualitative outcomes and impact we expect to achieve are related to:
– improved capacities of teachers to maintain sustainable motivation for learning and active engagement of pupils in V-VII grades;
– improved motivation for learning and engagement of pupils participated in piloting sessions and follow-up exploitation activities within project lifetime;
– improved international cooperation competences of partner organisations’ staff;
– improved quality of research and innovation design capacities of non-school partners.

Our main hope for T-BOX project is related to the vision of helping teachers in our countries and across Europe in providing their pupils with suitable conditions to achieve sustainable learning outcomes, which will lead to their successful transition to upper education levels and in long term perspective to better personal and professional development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 190772 Eur

Project Coordinator

119 Secondary School “Academician Mihail Arnaudov” & Country: BG

Project Partners

• FORMACION PARA EL DESARROLLO E INSERCION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• CARLOS V SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA DE ENSEÑANZA
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• Escola Básica Gonçalo Mendes da Maia
• Korup Skole
• BrainLog
• SDRUDZENIE ZNAM I MOGA