TiM21- Teachers in Movement towards 21st century teaching Erasmus Project

Project Title

TiM21- Teachers in Movement towards 21st century teaching

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: Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development); Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Energy and resources

Project Summary

Sustainability mainly lies on three main pillars: economy, society and environment.
Most students are very bad consumers in terms of bad eating habits, spending money and time, wasting resources, energy and water, they do not recycle, they live in a virtual world…
But above all we understood that sustainability is not only about consuming but also about sustainable twenty-first century education.

“TiM21″ was a project aimed at enriching students and staff with the opportunities to experience different approaches to sustainable development, within a school and together with, our partner schools. “TiM21” intended to deal with various aspects related to sustainability such as; Society, Economy, Environment, Nature, Education, Motivation and Leadership.
The project hoped to achieve a truly global dimension to both teachers and students learning through shared work, working towards common goals, supporting each other and developing 21st Century resources in education, which would in turn help and contribute the overall development of students and teachers; not only in partner schools, but in all schools that have the willingness to progress and shift from traditional teaching to more interactive and engaging 21st century teaching and learning. Through students and teachers´exchanges created working groups, which consisted of specialist teachers, that focused on creating resources for our online platform. Through the educational exchanges and visits among the partner schools, students had the opportunity to expose themselves to different cultures, institutions; they had the opportunity to attend classrooms and take part in activities in partner schools, which enabled them to practise their language skills to come up with innovative ideas, to enahce their leadership skills, and to experience life outside their everyday environment. Upon their return to their schools, students and teachers were asked to present their experience and to teach other students/teachers what they learnt.
Our partnership can act as an online platform for the exchange of innovative experiences in the field of educational sustainability.

Our partners included :
1. Spain: Instituto Secular “Hijas de la Natividad de María” – CPR Nuestra Sra del Carmen
2. Hungary: Vásárhelyi Pál Kereskedelmi Szakközépiskola
3. Cyprus: Highgate Private School Limited
4. France: Maison Familiale Rurale D’education Et D’orientation De Midi Pyrenees

“TiM21” included activities like:
– Interschool Public speaking and presentation skills training and competition
– Interschool Science fair
– Interschool recycling and compost training and creating jewellery through recycled material
– Interschool Financial Literacy Fair. Design competition. Training in recycling materials to create something new.
– Holding specialist lectures within topic areas
– Cumulating online booklets on outstanding pedagogical ideas for classroom practice.
– Renewable energies….

The results of this partnership have been vast and its impact on staff and students great. The impact being:
– It enlightened students about aspects of different cultures.
– It helped students reinforce learning within this project to their own educational studies in their school.
– Students could gain a more mature and accepting nature for those of different cultures and background.
– Teachers had opportunity to exchange pedagogical ideas for classroom practice.
– Teachers gained an insight into the teaching practices of our European neighbours

We firmly believe that the use of renewable resources and recycling materials has to be a life-long practice to impact the world we live in today; that´s why we wanted to sustain this aim further, through schools exchanges, holding workshops for the local schools to encourage continued use of renewable resources and the sharing of good practice within sustainability.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 107025 Eur

Project Coordinator

Instituto Secular “Hijas de la Natividad de María” – CPR Nuestra Sra del Carmen & Country: ES

Project Partners

• HIGHGATE PRIVATE SCHOOL LIMITED
• MAISON FAMILIALE RURALE D’EDUCATION ET D’ORIENTATION DE MIDI PYRENEES
• Budapesti Gazdasági Szakképzési Centrum Vásárhelyi Pál Kereskedelmi Szakgimnáziuma