"e+Ties: Another Look at

Bilingual Education"

2017-1-ES01-KA101-037720

The Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Castilla-La Mancha, aware of the needs that the plurilingualism plans generate in schools, teachers, students and all the educational community, creates the consortium through the resolution of 18/10 / 2016, which calls for the selection of public educational schools to establish an Erasmus + Consortia under Key Action 1 in the School Education and Vocational Training sectors in the Erasmus + call for proposals and coordinates the Erasmus + Project "e+ Ties: Another Look at bilingual education" to respond to the needs of ten schools that need to give a new approach to their institutions to improve the quality of their educational offer.

The objectives are framed around five areas of needs:

1. Area of organization and management of schools: To know other systems of organization of schools that facilitate the incorporation of bilingual programmes.

2. Internationalization area: To foster internationalization through the participation and collaboration in European Programmes.

3. Linguistic and methodological area: To make educational centers more attractive by improving the quality of their educational offer:

A)To participate in bilingual programmes and offer Hight Quality Content and Language Integrated Learning in foreign languages (CLIL).

B) To apply methodologies of active work in the classroom.

C) To create new learning scenarios based on the Future Classroom Lab.

4. Area of Integration and attention to diversity: Develop different strategies to be able to attend to diversity and promote integration and inclusion.

5. "Soft Skills" development area: To develop teacher's own abilities that allow him/her deal better with the challenges of the school and the classroom as motivation, negotiation, delegation, time management, personal interaction, communication, resolution

In order to achieve them,  we propose courses in English Language, Active Methodologies, CLIL,  Teaching of English as a foreign Lnguage and  Attention to diversity in the United Kingdom and Ireland and courses in New Learning Scenarios in the Future Classroom Lab in Belgium. We also propose Job Shadowing periods in schools in different European countries (Belgium, Cyprus, Slovenia, Finland, Italy, Poland, Greece, United Kingdom and France). We highlight “Ritaharju School" in Oulu, Finland, considered one of the eleven most innovative schools in the world.  Teachers of the centers that are part of the consortium will participate in this mobility activities.

An eTwinning project called "eTwinning Ties" will be founded and its Twinspace will be used as a platform for the development of the Erasmus+ project, document management, contact with consortium partners and host centers. Our objectives are to involve the rest of the teachers in the schools, to involve the students, to carry out collaborative activities with the students of the receiving schools and also to involve families and other members of the educational community.

To conclude the project, there will be an International Meeting that will last from 1 to 2 days. All the schools that are part of the consortium, their teachers, their students, other members of the educational community, other teachers from the region, teachers and students from the receiving schools and different educational authorities will participate.  

The methodology used will be collaborative, as we seek to create professional links with the partners of the structured courses and with the host centers to work on European collaborative projects through eTwinning or Erasmus+ and to promote the internationalization of our institutions, a fact that will also guarantee sustainability and transferability of the project.

The results of the project will be reflected in:

-The Institutions, which will incorporate systems of organization and management that will favor the implementation of bilingual and / or multilingual programs making them more attractive to increase the number of enrolled students.

-Participants, both in the mobility activities and in the Consortium, who will see their professional development enhanced by improving their linguistic, methodological and other soft skills that will allow the incorporation in the teaching-learning process of new spaces, strategies, techniques and methodologies that will improve the quality of inclusive education.

-The students that will increase their motivation for education and as a consequence their academic results.

The results of the project "e + Ties: Another look at bilingual education" will be beneficial for the entire educational community as they will be transferable and disseminated to other teachers at regional, national and international level and will generate experiences that will allow the creation of new educational approaches framed in new learning scenarios.

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