DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

This is an Erasmus+ project approved as 2018-1-SE01-KA229-039043.There are four partner schools coming from Sweden, Croatia, Poland and Hungary. The project deals with exchanging and building ideas and innovative practices aiming at finding the fruitful balance between student-centred teaching method and teacher-centred one. 
We are aware of the difference regarding teaching practices between our schools and we aim at studying the differences and observing the partners' teaching. We will explore this tension in three different subject fields: language learning, STEM and artistic / practical subjects. In addition, we will create opportunities to make comparison also in our own schools.
Our methodology with shadowing, eTwinning activities and focus group discussions will build a capacity in our schools to critically reflect on our own teaching practices. This capacity will enable the schools to start transforming their teaching regarding teacher-centred and student-centred teaching.

THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT 

The aims of the project are to:

- strengthen knowledge in STEM through authentic learning;

- develop language skills in native language and in English;

- provide natural opportunities to stimulate, train and develop students’ different senses in practical / aesthetic subjects;

- enable participants to use effectively ICT;

- enable teachers to critically reflect on their own teaching practice through shadowing in other teaching contexts, discussion and comparison of different approaches and through co-planned teaching activities;

- get a broader repertoire of teaching approaches;

- gain a strengthened action competence to know when to give the students more

responsibility over their learning process and when to take charge of the lessons;

- test innovative teaching methods together during mobility activities and develop them together in eTwinning activities and the pupils exchange.

IMPLEMENTATION

Throughout project, each partner will host one staff training event. The Swedish school will host also a pupil exchange. All partners will participate equally in the eTwinning project. The schedule is as follows.

- staff training in Sweden, October 2018;

- eTwinning project with students, cycle 1;

- staff training in Poland, May 2019;

- staff training in  Hungary, October 2019;

- eTwinning project with students, cycle 2;

- pupils exchange in Sweden, May 2020;

- staff training in Croatia, September 2020.

The overall management of the project is the task of the Swedish school. Each partner school appointed a coordinator and deputy. They will keep regular communication.

Swedish team will oversee the evaluation of the entire project. Croatian team will be in charge of the eTwinning project. Polish team will be responsible for the overall dissemination and the training of the two newcomer schools in the dissemination area. Hungarian team will lead the evaluation throughout eTwinning project.

RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

All project products will be published on the Twinspace and on the web pages of partner schools. Audiovisual materials will be placed on Youtube. Information about the project and about where people interested in its subject can find the materials developed by us will also be published on fan page created on Facebook. Throughout the duration of the collaboration we will regularly write blog entries on the portal #EnglarBloggar.

The working methods developed during the project, examples of exercises will be collected and developed in the form of a collection of materials available on Twinspace. After each meeting, we will prepare a newsletter with description of our activities. Our students' works will also be collected and published on Twinspace in the form of a digital book. The main result of our project will be the empowered teachers equipped with new knowledge and competences gained through this project.