The project :

After a first successful Erasmus K1 project in 2018-2020 and after being granted the etwinning School Label, we are now fully aware of the importance of a European openness, for our students as well as for our staff.

With our new project entitled 'From creative teaching to creative thinking', we would like to efficiently guide our students on their way to autonomy, creative thinking and professional success.

The team :

A whole team focuses on accompanying our students. Indeed, form teachers, teaching staff, our chief education supervisors, the computing staff and the students’ families are all involved in this project. We would like to provide more efficient guidance to our students by working collectively on this project.

First part of the project - The structured courses :

The learner-centered innovative methods that we are going to experience will enable us to make our students autonomous, train them to take responsability for their own personal development and teach them the 21^st century soft skills they need.

First, Mrs Couillard, chief education supervisor is going to take a structured course, Mastering Soft skills and Growing Emotional Intelligence using Mindfulness in Split, Croatia, from 18 Sept. to 24 sept. 2021, in order to explore various innovative techniques for stress and emotion management as well as conflict solving.

Mrs. Couasnon and Rage will take part in the structured course entitled Teaching English Creatively, in Mellieha (Malta), led by Alan Marsh and organised by Carob Institute (July 4th – July 9th 2021). This course is designed for those who already took part in Alan Marsh's first training ('Motivating Learners and Preparing for CLIL'), training completed by Mrs. Couasnon and Rage in Sept.2018. The new course deals with creative techniques in the classroom.

2^nd part of the project – Job shadowing

The second part of our project is job shadowing. The team work fully matches our school ‘s needs, as specified in our School Educational Programme (Projet d’Etablissement). We wish to share experiences with school staff from a school in Iasi, Romania, in order to compare our education systems and creative teaching methods, to get meaningful feedback (students and partners) and thus optimise our teaching techniques. Our partnership with this school in Iasi, Romania, is developing throughout many exchanges (etwinning, Facebook, Whatsapp, email, framapad) and will lead to job shadowing experiences in the schools taking part in this project.

Particular attention will be paid to disseminating and publishing what we have achieved, in our classes first of all, but also inside the school (staff meetings, etc.) and outside the school (reports on the school website, in the school magazine, on etwinning, brochures, contacts and meetings with neighbour schools and school inspectors, local press).

The assessment will take place gradually, thanks to different regulation meetings,to feedback from our students and partners (job shadowing), to surveys and questionnaires, to the number of visitors on the school website and Facebook page and to reports to the Erasmus Agency.

Last but not least, our goal is fostering cultural and international openness and materialising our sense of European citizenship. The geographical isolation, an inequality factor in our society, would no longer be an obstacle for our students, who will benefit from a more efficient guidance and will thus be able to have optimistic ambitious future prospects.