We are cooperARTive Erasmus Project

Project Title

We are cooperARTive

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Our Project has been based on a reflection and analysis of our school specific needs for the purpose to improve our student basic skills, who face new challenges in the 21st century society. We wanted to approach this Project within a strategic framework to European Cooperation in an Education and Training area («ET 2020»), emphasizing two fundamental PRIORITIES: the HORIZONTAL priority, focused on the relevant and high level skills, either basics like transversals, from a lifelong learning perspective, and the second one, based on SCHOOL EDUCATION, focused on reinforce the learning professional profiles.

It has been essential throughout the process to have found an appropriate partnership formed by schools from five countries (Spain, Italy, Estonia, Slovakia and Poland). Each one of them has contributed the energy, work and necessary tools to achieve all the targets in a proper way. Among us there has been an E-Twinning ambassador, specialists in languages, arts, music, digital skills, projects management and several active methodologies. All of them had experiences in different European projects, essential aspect to have reached a good interpersonal relationship and organization management.

On the basis of such social-educational context, our Project has addressed the following aspects:
-MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES as an educational theory fully suited to develop respect to diversity.
-Educational INNOVATION for teachers and students. COOPERATIVE METHODOLOGY training has allowed us to deepen in the use of new techniques and perform a more productive work action research.
-ARTS provides some tools very easy to integrate in the objectives of our activities, bearing in mind the diversity of interests of our students.
-The use of DIGITAL resources, either to communication or product development.
-Involvement of the European TEACHERS who have received theoretical training in cooperative methodology and implement this methodology in planned activities.
-Involvement of the FAMILIES by collaborating in specific activities as responsible for the future of their sons as European citizens.
-Involvement of other ORGANIZATIONS (local, national and European) and non-school associations that will be sharing our cooperative mindset through joint experiences.

To achieve the planned goals, the following activities with all educational community have been reached:

TEACHERS:
-Full theoretical-practical teacher’s training on cooperative learning
-Cooperative activities tutoring

FAMILIES:
-Cultural and involvement activities
-Informative talks

STUDENTS:
-Cooperative challenges
-Artistic techniques workshops
-Cooperative artworks (sculpture and musical performance)
-Multimedia productions
-Video conferences
-Activities involving communication in the common language (English) via new technologies

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
-Activities involving local institutions and authorities
-Activities with another organizations: nursery schools, elder people residences, Special Education schools, theaters and local cultural centres

NON-SCHOOL COLLECTIVES:
-Dissemination activities through training courses, seminars and presentations for educators.

ERASMUS + PARTNERSHIP:
-Assessment tools development
-Production of an educational Dossier and documentary film covering our action research work
-Project website and Twinspace
-Musical pieces compositions
-Cultural presentations

After the development period of our Project has ended, with an excellent results, we can set that it has had a significant impact among the different educational communities. We have experienced this impact at several levels, in issues such as:
-More involved and motivated teachers in the teaching-learning process thanks to the new methodologies with more interest in the use of English and deeper knowledge of another European educational systems.
-More motivated and involved students in the learning process, showing more interest in other European countries. They have improved their school-peer relationships, encouraging the integration and inclusion and having more interest in a contextualize use of English.
-Closer families to the educational reality in other countries, more involved at school and with a better view of the educators.
In general, the schools have opened to the nearby environment, keeping relationships with other institutions and associations, with which they will maintain future actions.
In a long-term, our Project aims to be sustainable thanks to the incorporation of the innovative methodologies in our school curricula and its use in the current teaching and learning practice.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 74565 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP GUERNICA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo di Bobbio Capoluogo
• Zespol Placowek Oswiatowych, Szkola Podstawowa im. S. Zeromskiego w Strawczynie
• Tartu Raatuse Kool
• ZS Hradna 22 Nove Zamky