Results of the RO week
This week's activities seem to have been appreciated by the big majority of participants, according to the evaluation form's results.
Romanian students’ main benefit was being able to go on the visits and participate on the workshops for free. They also mentioned this:
- "new words, new things about Finland, Portugal, Germany, Greece, how to organize an activity",
- "i learn about tradition and words from Poland and to talk much more with the people"
- "new words,how to comunicate with other kids from other countries,that the other students dont eat so much like we do in Romania"
Foreign students comments:
- "I learned that there is different kind of life, i can survive in different places and get new friends"
- "How to do slime, little bit of english and to work more as a team"
- "I learned a little bit karate, a lot about science and new information about maths"
- "Maths, Chemistry, water care"
- "Work in big international team, Romanian history, Romanian culture"
- "Chemistry, sport, maths"
- "English"
- "I learned about romanian national food, a lot about history"
- "I learned a few words in Romanian, Portuguese and i learned not to eat certain foods next time i go to Romania"
Teachers were able to observe and share teaching methodologies while accompanying the students.
Foreign teachers comments:
"To aknowledge the application of the experiments in the real world"
"So good work with Science day, so many different workshops, which interested both students and teachers, Beautiful places which we visited, Visit to University was interesting too"
"I loved the idea of combining thinking and moving, for example during the maths workshop."
"Interaction between teachers and between teacher and student. A reduced number of student can learn more effectively compared to a larger one."
"The experiments were easily understood by the students."
"The more than satisfying way Romanian Ss explained to the Ss of the other countries what they had to do."
"During the science workshop I was glad to see how the pupils cooperated. There is actually a potential to do this more often, especially using modern media."
"Learning mathematics with the use of computer and kinect"
"The day of science. Students were so enthusiastic working together with their teams."
"Interesting and inspiring experiences"
One of the aspects that gathered more positive responses was the organization of the workshops:
