Preliminary project title: Learning through teaching for students (Students teach-->Students learn) (Teach2Learn ó Learn2Teach)
General information
Each school will teach -show - recommend something to the other schools and students will cooperate on this basis. During this project students will have the opportunity to consolidate and share their knowledge in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) participating in a multilayered and interdisciplinary learning approach. At the same time high desire of teachers is to make this learning process absolutly inclusive for all members of two classes: One in Germany and another one in Greece. Greek students will play the roll of tutors for the German, trying to teach motion with constant velocity and motion with acceleration using the Ergobots. The ErgoBot is a extraordinary new technology that allows you to teach both physics and engineering with hands-on action guaranteed to keep the students engaged in learning.The ErgoBot is a robotic device that displays its motion on your computer in real time as you move it. Besides it is a device that can be fully programmed to move according the desire of the programmer. Greek students will create innovative videos, presentations, video conferences and many more in order to implement peer learning. This will enhance the engagement, the motivation and the inspiration of the students of both schools and ensure an inclusive education process for all participants because students will
- make new friends
- compare two different educational systems
- practice in English
- develop a wide range of their potential
- have an active practice in sciences and exercise to use ICT in everyday learning process
- introduce briefly the theoretical knowledge
- develop skills such as creative thinking, inference, integration, digital literacy,emotional intelligence, problem-solving and team-working
- excercise on peer learning
Action for the project
- Find partners
- Plan and register the project
- Get the approval by the National Support Services
- Get a brand new TwinSpace and use it as an instrument, which will encourage and facilitate collaboration, communication, sharing and interaction amongst students and place them at the centre of the collaboration activity, making the project inclusive.
- Building of the Twinspace
- Invite students, other teachers and visitors that are going to work in the TwinSpace
- Know each other : 1) Creation of profiles: Each member of the TwinSpace will create a personal profile by uploading a personal photo , describing interests, hobbies, favorite foods, etc.) 2) Get to know each other: Teachers and pupils will browse the profiles of their classmates and partners to learn about them. They will also get in touch by sending an internal mail message or writing a wall post.
- Develop the Project Activities section
- Define the structure of the project and therefore the activities that will take place
- Create and name pages according to the different projects components
- Set up and customize new activity pages
- Ask the students to create the logo of the project using Padelt or some other application
- Call the students to participate in a standarized survey (using google forms) about their attitude for STEM and STEM teachers. The same survey will be conducted at the end of the project in order to indicate if the project will change their attitude.
- Work together (communication and interaction between teachers-teachers, students-students and teachers-students groups developings wikis)
- Work in the pupils (students) corner
- Work in the staff room
- Use the Blog on the Homepage to keep a logbook with partners to note of the practices that you implement as you go along throughout the project: the initial working plan, then activities, instructions, results, problems encountered/overcome, thoughts, issues, successes.. and whatever else you believe is important to share with the other partners; prepare all the elements needed to easily create your project report, to write a presentation in order to receive a Quality Label and/or enter a competition; learn from your experience and create resources to share this knowledge.(keeping a logbook will help to enables, to map out the itinerary, to make note of any discoveries and to identify the knowledge that this venture has enabled us to create, for only 15-30 minutes per week as a Project Diary
- Publish the project’s twinspace
- Sharing the results with the educational community using a blog, schools website, social media or local news
- Evaluation (check if we have achieved the planned goals, if we would change something for the future projects, make a survey to measure the real impact on the participants)
IMPORTANT RULES
- involve the students in the planning of the TwinSpace
- resist the temptation of always being in control
- delegate many of the responsibilities to the students
- demonstrate the introduction of pedagogical innovation in teaching
- Use the TwinSpace as a work area in the normal classroom activities as an Curricular Integration
- Use the TwinSpace to work together and not just as a repository
- Creative use of ICT to their full potential
- Make the TwinSpace public to set the conditions for the work to benefit other teachers, who can then take inspiration and adapt experience to their own schools and projects and develop the sustainability and transferability of the project
- Produce results
- Make students to develope some of the competences that will allow them to be full members of our so-called Knowledge society
TIMETABLE
1 → 10 of May 2017: Create the project in etwinning and ask for permission
11 → 17 of May 2017: Call the students to join the project and to know each other
18 of May → 15 June 2017: Work on the project
16 → 23 of June 2017 Preperation of the final presentations
25 of June 2017 : End of the project. Application for the national quality label.