Project description

  • The project "Shaping the future of our school" is included in a well-designed development plan aiming at meeting the needs resulting from the deep change that the Liceo T. Mamiani has experienced over the few last years. The stunning pupils' increase and the subsequent growth of the teaching staff as well as the spatial changes urge to reconsider the school organization and educational offer, in order to guarantee its ever high educational standards. Furthermore, new needs have arisen as a consequence of the more variegated school population and of the new challenges set by the last school reform. Therefore this project pursues the following main objectives:

    a) To improve the school educational standards by implementing innovative and interdisciplinary teaching methodologies that allow pupils to acquire the 21st century competencies

    b) To improve pupils' wellbeing and the efficacy of their learning thanks to a more inclusive school environment, able to meet the students' needs in a personalized way

    c) To develop the school European dimension which will help to direct its future policy

     

    In order to achieve these objectives the following 4 actions have been designed:

    1) CLIL all around: Courses to empower language skills and improve CLIL methodology for 10 teachers in the following languages: English (5), French (2), German (2), Spanish (1) which will be held in Ireland, France, Germany and Spain.

    2) A school for the 21st century: Courses on innovative teaching methodologies with a special focus on ICT and on the cross-curricular approach for 6 teachers which will be held in Portugal.

    3) A school for all: Courses about inclusive teaching for 3 teachers of non linguistic subjects and 2 teachers of foreign languages which will be held in Spain and Greece.

    4) A school of the future: Job shadowing experiences for 3 teachers in secondary schools located in Germany, Czech Repulic and Spain and n. 2 courses for improving the English knowledge (B1 level) for the school headmaster and the administrative director will be held in Ireland.

    A total of 26 participants (24 teachers, the headmaster and the administrative director) will take part directly in the project.

    After their return the selected staff will be involved in the implementation of the project by:

    - designing a CLIL based learning unit in the second term of the school year 2018/19 in at least one class run by the teachers participating in the "CLIL All around" action;

    - developing 1 or more CLIL modules of 15 periods each in the third, fourth and fifth class of the linguistic course and in the fifth years of all the courses offered, starting from the school year 2019/2020;

    - creating a network of teachers from each department to disseminate the knowledge acquired about new teaching methodologies, ICT and cross-curricular approach, to test them in the short period and to plan a broad implementation across the different subjects

    - creating the work group "A school for all" that will draw up guidelines for inclusion to be adopted in the school year 2019/2020 and specific guidelines for foreign languages within the sub-action "Languages for all", as well as supporting measures and paths for SEN students;

    - setting up the work group "A school for the future" made up by the headmaster, the administrative director and a group of teachers that, starting from the job shadowing experiences, will outline the next years' school policy.

    An OER database will host all the materials collected and produced during the mobility. It will be updated in the following years by the outcomes of the etwinning projects and of the trategic partnerships which will be realized in order to develop and exchange best practices in the different areas of the mobility project. A website will be created to spread the project outcomes and each participant will keep a digital diary during his/her mobility. The project will conclude with a final dissemination event.

    The expected outcomes are wide-ranging. Improved competences in the specific training fields, enhanced capacity of working in team and a better intercultural awareness are among the benefits that the participants will enjoy in the short run. The introduction of new teaching methodologies, the design of a more motivating and inclusive educational offer and the internationalization of the school environment are the benefits which the students will directly experience in the medium and long run.