Erasmus + Project
“ICT IN ACTIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING-INSPIRING, CHALLENGING, TERRIFIC”
2016-1-LV01-KA219-022637_1
2016 – 2019
Project meeting - Teaching/Learning Activity
Oudenaarde, Belgium
10th – 16th September 2017
MEETING PROTOCOL
Host school:
Bernardusscholen, Belgium
Co-ordination: Latvia
Protocoling: Belgium
Participants:
PROGRAMME:
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Introduction-welcoming of all the project partners, welcome speeches.
Meeting with the administration, teachers, presentation- Belgium- Bernardusscholen and Belgium educational system.
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Teaching/learning session. Course session/Discussion.
The main coordinator-Agita Ozolina ran a training course “Power of Groupwork.
Collaboration. Assessment of the Work" and the main coordinator of eTwinning- Hendrien Exel ran a workshop “Work on TwinSpace”. 22 teachers took part in the course.
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Presentation about the results of the 1st Project year
Each coordinator had prepared a short review of the work in the project. The common presentation was created online using Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nm_BLQoox28KJzwbYg0rAc8A3nqC70cnB2wkbcLgvD8/edit?usp=sharing
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Lesson observations
Belgium teachers gave four open lessons which were being observed by the foreign partners. The main aim of the lessons were- use of ICT in the lessons. After that there were lesson analyses.
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Teaching/learning session at school
Sharing ideas for the course of ICT based on the needs, ideas for the course of ICT for teachers and students. Use of ICT in the lessons. Belgium and Latvian teachers were sharing their own experience and teaching others a tool to use at the lessons.
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Preparing and organizing the lessons in the teams
We had already tried the lesson on our own country twice, so now we changed the system. The concept of the training activities was to learn from each other and work together cross-internationally. More precisely, nobody had to prepare a lesson before the arrival. The only thing participants could do, was think about which programs or apps we’d like to work with. There were made randomly mixed groups of 4 teachers on Monday and each group prepared a lesson for a Belgian group of pupils. We could choose the subject and app ourselves. We got input from Belgian colleagues on Tuesday and Wednesday. The actual teaching was on Thursday.
As for the subject of the lesson, Belgium school, as well the school of the Dutch and Latvian colleagues, is a member of the Unesco Schools Network. That’s why it was suggested to work with the sustainable development goals of Unesco. On September 18th, they organized the world’s largest lesson. All the presentations and descriptions of the lessons are seen:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6Aud8NSLTJ6dzZnRU50ZTFpWXM
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Online evaluation of the teaching/learning session in Belgium
Every coordinator has to evaluate the teaching/learning session and the project meeting in Belgium till 30th September.
https://goo.gl/forms/alhHMMRNFjKNJuHr2
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Discussion about the project work:
-eTwinning-working on the eTwinning platform, coordinators should put every work done into the Twinspace, (Hendrien Exel from the Netherlands is ready to answer all your questions and help you with the work).
-Project Diaries in the Google Drive-all coordinators are asked to fill the information.
-online Evaluation form about the project meeting in Belgium-1 answer per country.
-It was set that the project meeting in Turkey will take place 6th-12th May 2018-each country is going to bring there 3 students aged 14-15.
-Discussion about managing the budget of the project in each school.
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Project meetings:
- the project meeting in Turkey will take place 6th-12th May 2018.
Each country has to send (at least) 3 pupils and 2 teachers, the selection can be based on own criteria, we suggest an open call and some sort of contest in ICT based creativity. Participating pupils are born in 2003.
In Turkey, pupils and teachers will have at least four days of workshops in internationally mixed teams (pupils and teachers separately). The topic will be about ‘science connected problem solving and use of ICT’. Students are going to teach each other useful apps.
Project meetings will last for 7 days-5 days of work, arriving on Sunday, leaving on Saturday.
DECISIONS:
Work for upcoming year
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Making an overview of educational apps and software. (The Netherlands will send a translated example, Latvia will create a table for the discussing) November’17 (start)
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Recording the lessons, creating the examples of different parts of lessons (lesson outcomes, formative assessment, exit cards, feedback of the work), creating materials January’18 (start) (in English)
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Online courses for teachers, students “Use of ICT” (vebinarium)
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Online course for teachers (Assessment, criterias)
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Creating tutorials for use of online applications.
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Creating manuals for students how to use an application at the lesson.
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Lesson observation, creating materials.
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Experimenting with the apps, making short videos and photos of the process, evaluating the material. We have to make sure that everyone gets some training in making short movies.
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Focusing on lesson outcomes, formative assessment and how pupils evaluate the use of ICT.
Olympiad
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This will be the main point of discussion for our teaching, learning and training activity in The Netherlands.
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Keywords are that it will have to be an interdisciplinary tasks for pupils of 15 years of age, born in 2003. The pupils that will come to Latvia don’t have to be the same as the ones that will join us in Turkey.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
During the week we had a chance to see cultural and historical places in Belgium. There was organized a visit to the local museum of Oudenaarde. On Tuesday, there was organized a tour around some war cemeteries of World War I, now exactly 100 years ago and visited Ieper (Ypres), where we visited the In Flanders Fields museum and attended the Last Post. On Thursday we went to Ghent, the city on which Oudenaarde is mainly oriented, where a lot of pupils go to for higher education and a lot of teachers live. We had a city tour on foot and went to see the Adoration of the mystic lamb, a well known painting in the Cathedral. On Friday, we had a short visit to Brussels. We visited the Parlamentarium, the visitor’s centre of the European Parliament.
CONCLUSION
It was a really productive meeting for us. It was a kind of memorable experience for all partners. We had a chance to know the partners better, we could talk about our work in the project, educational systems and using of modern technologies during the lessons.
Dieter Wildemauwe, Belgium