Here TEACHERS write a short paragraph evaluating the project.

• Our students´work and implication.
• Skills developed by our students.
• Results.
• Strong and weak points of the project.
• What should be improved?

 

Aranzazu Iturrioz (Santander-Spain)

My students' work and implication have been excellent. At school, we have dedicated one session a week to the project and all my students have enjoyed the activities. I'd like to stress that they have given their best and have improved their team work, critical thinking and comunicative skills. Collaboration with their peers from other schools has been great and they have enjoyed skyping. The main result of the project is the Twinspace where the planification, the process and the results are shown. The collaborative products of the 10 Teams are really good and prove real collaboration between students.

In my opinion, the strenghts of the project have been teachers' commitment to get a good result and students' fantastic work. An unavoidable difficulty is that it takes some time to students to get used to the Twinspace. Once they feel confident, the project is ending. Although coordination between teachers during the project has been great, it's complicated to complete the activities at the same pace. I should say that I feel very happy about my partners' collaboration and very proud of my students work. I have learnt a lot from all of them.

 

Georgia Tsirmpa (Tripoli - Greece)

          My students had never taken part in an eTwinning project before, so at first, they were shy and reluctant in talking about themselves, let alone, in expressing their inner feelings and thoughts.

          As soon as they got to know their partners – to that end, the live conferences were really helpful – they found it much easier to get actively engaged in all the activities of the project. They enjoyed most the ones which demanded collaborative work in transnational teams and involved creative multimedia presentations.

        We were lucky and grateful that our partners were not only more experienced than us, but also very supportive and encouraging. As a result, our participation in this project turned into one of the most pleasant and fruitful experiences of our lives

          We made everlasting friendships, we got familiarized with the eTwinning platform as well as a number of video-making applications, we practiced our English and above all, we managed to prove in practice that “Everyone matters.”

 

Nalan AYDIN ( Samsun - Turkey )

    We  have worked together in a very communicative and productive way since the beginning of the project.The objectives of the project are crucial phenomenons of which everybody must be aware.We aimed at raising awareness about inclusion in different aspects and I'm glad with the positive effects of the project on the students' individual improvements.Their perception based on inclusion has changed in favorable way and learned to respect people from different walks of life.

      Through transnational teams,the students exchanged their ideas and completed their duties collaboratively.They have developed their creativity,self-confidence,social interaction,communication and ICT skills,learned team work.The project has been an important element in the teaching-learning process of my group of students and given us opportunity to learn outside the class and share good moments and success together.

    The strongest point of the project is the communication and the interaction between the teachers and the students.Through determined and supportive mentors,the motivated students felt themselves more confident and as a result they created of good quality activities.We could have created more activities but because of lack of time which is the only weak point of the project,we had to delimitate our goals.

   I'm proud of participating in this project both for the name of myself and my students due to the project consequences. 

   This project includes everyone because we matter everyone.

 

Lucia COLORE ( ITET - Rapisardi Da Vinci)

I’m really proud of my students for the excellent work they have done! They had never been part of an etwinning project before and it was the first time they had worked with me as well. They were maybe the youngest students in a group of 87 but they proved themselves to be talented and very committed to all the activities included in the project.

 A special “ thank you” to the most experienced partners which have always been very supportive, kind and generous in sharing their experience. They have been really “inclusive” indeed!

Thanks to this project my students have learnt more about inclusion, the different forms of discrimination that may occur in a society that sometimes runs too fast and the most effective ways to make everyone feel important and appreciated.

They have also improved their communicative skills in written and spoken English; they  really liked the skype conferences with the other partners which proved to be a unique way to get in touch in a funny and engaging way!

Last but not least we have all impoved our ICT skills learning a lot about the latest web tools and how they can be used in eveyday teaching and learning.

We would have liked to have more time to work on further activities and even better works but we are really satisfied with what we have done anyway!

 

Kata Grgljanić, Vinkovci Croatia

This is not our first eTwinning project but it is our favourite, as one of my students mentioned. I believe that students who experience Project Based Learning are more engaged and better prepared for the real world as a result. Learning from the past and acting now, help us to contribute to a better world where we all can live peacefully. Due to this project my students adapt to a culture of collaboration, to collaborate with others within and outside of our school, and use a number of new technologies. We foster teamwork and collaboration by looking for creative and innovative solutions.

Many types of discrimination are obstacles in achieving real equality or equal opportunities at school and outside school. With this project, we aim to find ways to foster inclusion and tolerance and to avoid discrimination and exclusion. My students had experienced “life skills”, they are able to collaborate, problem-solve, and make thoughtful choices. They have improved their communication and collaborative skills, so they can easily give presentations in class and in a variety of other situations. They also developed their social and ICT skills, digital competence.

I embed the project in my curriculum, so we collaborate with other students and teachers in our school, and activities of the curriculum became meaningful.

In my opinion, the working process of the project was clear and well defined. The main added value of the participation of my students in this project was that they developed responsibility in self regulated learning.

For me, the most important of my participation in this project was collaboration in a well scheduled project. I really enjoyed in making bonds with other teachers and improving my ITC skills.