The learning process is best realized when students are confident and at ease. The quick attachment to new technology has changed patterns of young people’s communication and has affected face to face interactions. The virtual media challenges us, teachers, to develop our students’ skills to ethic communication. Throughout our project we intend to train our students’ abilities to socialize both in the virtual world and in reality. The aim is to educate students in inclusion and tolerance through participation in team activities shared with our European partners. Developing social skills will promote understanding of other people and in turn democratic acting. When students become aware of their abilities they experience the environment in school as a zone that encourages them as individuals. They can use all their capacity for learning. Well-being is fundamental for reaching good results and preventing drop outs.
The activities carried out in this project improve our collaborative teaching as we will plan together, share and evaluate methods and tools such as e.g OER, ICT. The teachers in this project will continuously share the progress on the eTwinning site. Because of the personal experiences of the participating teachers, different ages, national curriculums a.s.o. , different methods of building and strengthen teams will be shared between teachers and taught to the students. The students’ will be motivated in different ways develop their social competences in a variety of situations in a European perspective. The teachers’ pedagogical issues will expand and become issues in European perspectives to prevent intolerant acting among young people. This is important for all young people while they are shaping their personal identity.
We want to realize nine larger activities concerning communication, cooperation and team-building in different subjects during the project. Meantime we will teach methods to develop the social abilities. Role play, case studies, discussions, acting, argumentation are some of the methods we will use for student’s reflections and conclusions. All through the project we will challenge the students to improve themselves to get motivated. They will understand the meaning and enjoy studies. During the whole project including skills will be writing, speaking, listening and understanding.
We will celebrate together some International days to reinforce the idea of cooperation. Our activities those days will be online.
- September 26 : European Day of Languages
- October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
- November 16: International Day for Tolerance
- December 10: Human Rights Day
- January 30: International Day of Non Violence
- February 20: World Day of Social Justice
- March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- March 25: European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings
- April 16: International Day against Child Slavery
- April 29: European Day of Solidarity and Cooperation between Generations
- May 15: International Day of Families
- June 12: World Day against Child Labour
Activities and meetings during the project:
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C 1 - Meeting in Sweden - October 2014. In addition to the agenda above the first meeting will have to consist more details in
matters of teaching methods.
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C 2 - For the teachers : "Geocaching course= how to use GPS with tablets". A course held by an education center in Kalmar to inspire
teachers and students in geography.
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C 3 - For the teachers: Course : "How to work with audiovisual tools". A course held by an education center in Kalmar to increase the
teachers choice of audiovisual tools in order to offer more variation in teaching.
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A 1 - "Treasure hunting with GPS-Ipad/mobil = GEOCACHING" November 2014 New methods to geography.
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Teamwork
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Subject: Sport, Geography, ICT
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Presentation of the result: film
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A 2 - “ I ́m good enough” January 2015 The students will experience they are all valuable.
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Work about self-esteem, belonging to a group
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Subject: Art
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Work: Self-portrait / hand sculpture
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Exposition of all the pictures at a meeting
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A 3 - ”Sing a song” = on tolerance, understanding - February 2015 To strengthen the cooperation.
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Concert at school
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Study the lyrics of the songs at class
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Result = a film
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Subject: mother tongue, English, others languages, Music, ICT
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C 4 - Meeting in Spain - Mars 2015
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A 4- "Let ́s solve Math together” June - September 2015 We want students to experience new and joyful methods.
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Teamwork
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The pupils write and send mathematical problems from easy level to difficult level. The problems will be discussed and solved at
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classes.
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Subject: Math, mother tongue, English ICT
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C 5 - Meeting in Romania - October 2015
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A 5 - “Read a film” - November 2015 - January 2016. The importance of understanding and "reading " between lines.
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Film about relevant topics for the project and use the same studyguide provided by the teachers
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Subject: mother tongue, English, ICT
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Work: Questions, brainstorm, discussions on eTwinning and Skype
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C 6 - Meeting in Turkey - May 2016
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A 6 -"Role model":outside your country, in your country, in your life - June 2016 - September 2016 To inspire to and reinforce good behaviour regardless of background.
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Individual and shared work
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Subject: mother tongue, History, English, Social Sciences ICT
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Research, writing about an important person and about a important person in your own life
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Work: Photo and text -
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A 7 - " I like my home town" September-October 2016
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A photo contest
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Write an article in a journalistic way with few text explications near photos
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Make a newspaper of the results..... compare at classes : similarities and differences
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Subject: English, mother tongue ICT
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C 7– Meeting in Polen "I like my home town" October 2016
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A 8 - “What to do if....” December 2016 - February 2017
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Debat/ argumentation about values, consequences, conflict, moral courage, no discrimination
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Cases to discuss and make a decision
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Subject: mother tongue, Social sciences, English
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A 9 - Forumplay: discussion on how the stories (roleplay) continue......March 2017
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C 8- Meeting in United Kingdom - March 2017
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M 1- Transnational meeting - Sweden - June 2017- only teachers. We summarize the whole project.