The European Way: verso la creazione di un ambiente di apprendimento-insegnamento europeo Erasmus Project

Project Title

The European Way: verso la creazione di un ambiente di apprendimento-insegnamento europeo

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

The project was inspired by a long-term and effective collaboration on students’ exchanges and teachers’ support between our school and the two partner schools: Gorey Community School and Gabrieli-Gymasyum. The projects carried out in the last years have shown great reliability of the partners and common objectives as regards educational, linguistic and formative goals.
The main aim of this new partnership was mostly the students’ mobility, revised and enriched in its objectives as for quality, innovation and effectiveness of learning and education in the light of the European dimension. The projects involved about 110 students aged 15-17 in regular class exchanges .
One of the most innovative aspects of the Project was the teachers’ mobility; 4 teachers will be involved in job-shadwoing and teaching in the partner schools; a mixed team of teachers has attended a Training Workshop on the teaching of common subjects as science, art and literature 2. As referred to teachers’s mobility , its main aim was the reinforcement of the professional profile as well as the effort to work together to make the school system more modern and comunicative thanks to the new technologies and to an European e-Leaning environemnt.
The common way of communication among the partner schools , beside the traditional e-mail, was carried out through Skype or Google + ( videoconference with the partner schools, CLIL, ‘virtual’ teachers’ lending), social network ( collaborative learning through writing with partners) and moodle.liceocastiglione.it ( a virtual platform already existing but to be implemented) students’ tutoring , CLIL learning paths, podcast, Blog and chat room.
The expected results which have been completely fulfillef are varied: a new motivation related to teaching and learning, the development of a better communicative competence and technological skills, a new stimulus towards plurilinguism, the growing awareness of different cultural and social realities as well as a reflection on being European citizens. The visible outcomes are a web page of the Project which will be available in the Net as well as in the website of each school and in e-Twinning. In the webpage one can also see photos and material produced on CLIL and on language learning; a Fb page which has been updated almost real time with the main events; the platform.
ISIS Giovanni da Castiglione is also a school of Rete Europa dell’Istruzione and training centre for CLIL for the Arezzo province, therefore thanks to the support from the support of USR- Ufficio Scolastico Regionale Toscana we have organised and held a 2-day- CLIL Conference in Castiglion Fiorentino for the debate on CLIL and the presentation and dissemination the project. Dissemination has also occurred though on local newspapers and local Television.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148890 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISIS GIOVANNI DA CASTIGLIONE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Gorey Community School
• Gabrieli-Gymnasium