The present Erasmus KA1 project aims to promote, through a series of training courses and job-shadowing activities, with the teaching community of the General Serpa Pinto Schools Grouping, in Cinfães, the following results:
- Improve leadership and articulation processes;
- Encourage the sharing of innovative ideas and experiences;
- Implement different teaching methods and techniques, more open to curricular articulation;
- Enable teachers to work with heterogeneous classes, allowing the inclusion of all students;
- Promote connection to the local community.
We believe that training and sharing experiences with teachers from other countries can bring obvious improvements to our Grouping, while at the same time focusing on strengthening European citizenship. The sharing of successful experiences and common concerns will help us to educate Europe's children and young people towards a better future, strengthening solidarity and sharing opportunities, responsibilities and duties.
4 individual mobilities are planned for:
- the IFOM Training Center, from January 26th to February 1st, 2019 in Bologna, Italy
- the Teacher Academy Training Center, between the 4th and 9th of November 2020 in Florence, Italy
- the Out Door Ed Training Center, May 17-22, 2020 in Linkoping, Sweden*
- the Pricalica Training Center from December 5th to 11th, 2021 in Vienna, Austria**
* This mobility had to be replaced by another one, for reasons related to Covid-19. Thus, a new mobility was programmed for the course "News Ways of Learning" at the Out Door Ed Training Centre, to be held between the 12th and 17th of September 2021 in Kutná Hora, in the Czech Republic.
** This mobility also had to be replaced bu another one, because there were few enrollments and the Training Center did not open the course. The course chosen was "Creativity for the future: promoting Thinking and Problem-Solving in the Classroom" in Bologna, Italy.
The foreseen job-shadowing experiences last two weeks and aim to get to know in greater depth different approaches regarding curriculum flexibility. For reasons related to Covid-19, these experiences can be shortened to one week, with the participation of two professors.
One of the partner schools in our project is Colégio Abaco, in Madrid, Spain. The focus will be on curriculum flexibility that is developed at the level of the 1st or 2nd cycles of education. The other partner school is the Colegio Atheneum Royal Jules Bara, in Tournai, Belgium, with a job-shadowing activity planned for the 3rd cycle (Languages or Sciences according to the applications presented).
We believe that experiencing different ways of teaching, with different strategies from ours, in Education systems in other countries, can result in benefits at the level of the organization and of the teaching practices themselves.