Parents' opinions are relevant for the students and also for teachers.
Here are some parents who accepted to be inteviewed by their children.
Sant Josep school Navàs, Catalonia, Spain
June 2021
June 2020
Oulu University Teacher Training School, Finland:
Marjo´s point of view, Finland June 2021:
Other parents of the grade 6a evaluated that the students have learned a lot of sustainable lifestyle skills in the project and done it also in English.
The most important values and lessons were cooperation skills, principles of sustainable development, internationality and creativity.
Interaction with other students was also rewarding, although everyone would have liked to have genuine, physical mobilities abroad with other students instead of virtual mobilities.
All the parents who responded thought that it is very important for the school to be involved in projects like this. The students have been very motivated about the project and they have talked about it a lot at home. The project has reflected on saving water, reducing purchases, shutting down unnecessary electrical appliances, sorting and recycling, which students have reportedly been doing before this project. 😊They got their favorite SDGs t-shirts and often wore it.
The students have told about interesting collaborative projects with international cooperation schools, interesting craft tasks related to sustainable development and performance situations.
They have told how they have been able to communicate and give presentations in English.
The students have learned to recycle, they know how to recycle plastic and separate metals, for example. They are familiar with climate change, the causes of it and they know climate actions.
Reka´s summary about the evaluation as a parent of a Finnish student involved in SDGs Action!
Romanian parent point of view
French parents point of view
Italian Parent's point of view
Bulgarian parents point of view
June 2021, parents survey
A survey has been prepared in English for families of all participant countries. It has been translated into different mother tongue languages for each country.
Results from Sant Josep school, Navàs
Summary of the results in English, parents from Sant Josep school, Navàs
Parents consider that the project helped their children to learn in a different way, they highlight the experience of active learning, innovation their engagement and the motivation from the very beginning to the end.
They feel grateful for giging kids the chance to improve their soft skills such as team work, collaborative learning.
They think that the topic about SDGs is very important and it has been taught in an innovative, creative way.
70% did not find any difficulties on the project, except the ones that mention the distance learning.
The most appreciated issue is the collaborative work among other European students, their motivation, the topic of SDGs in a creative active learning and their improvement of learning English.
They finally congratulate teachers for the good job and for giving their children this wonderful opportunity.
80% of families give the project a score among 9-10
Results from Saint Paul School, Cesson, France
Summary of the results in English, parents from Saint-Paul school Cesson
Parents mainly think that this kind of project is a good way to learn in a different way and that it helps increase students motivation.
Parents found difficulties in distant learning.
The main interest for them is that theire children could collaborate with students from partner countries.
85% of families give the project a score among 9-10
Results from Montecorvino Rovella, Italy
Summary of the results in English, parents from Montecorvino Rovella, Italy
Parents consider that the project helped their children to learn in a different way, they highlight the experience of active learning, innovation their engagement and the motivation from the very beginning to the end.
They feel grateful and happy for giving kids the chance to attend this project and improve their soft skills such as team work, collaborative learning.
They think that the topic about SDGs is very important and it was proposed in an innovative and creative way.
Parents found difficulties in distant learning.
The most appreciated issue is the collaborative work among other European students, their motivation, the topic of SDGs in a creative active learning and their improvement of learning English.
Most of them congratulate teachers for the good job and for giving their children this great opportunity.
82% of families give the project a score among 8-10.
Results from SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak, Bulgaria:
The parents think that the project is valuable because: There is a lot of experience for learning in a different way, cooperation with other students from different European countries , Motivated the students to learn and act toward the SDGs
In this Erasmus + / eTwinning project, they liked : Cooperation with other students from Europe- 45%, Innovation and motivation for the action -27 %, Creative way of presenting the SDGs –28%.
53% of the, rated the project with 10 and 47% with 9 from 1 to 10. They share their opinion - The project was amazing because made students to understand better the importance of SDGs Action and improved their English and digital skills.
Summary of the results in English,
parents from Oulu University Teacher Training School
Parents considered that the most important values and knowledge the project gave to their children were:
- to learn sustainable way of living
- to understand the reasons of climate change
- to get to know global and international affairs
- nature values, the diversity of our nature
- to understand the meaning of own choices and deeds: energy and water consumption, diet choices, waste disposal, recycling
- to meet different cultures
- improvement of ICT-skills, coding
- diversity
- international relationships with age-mates
Parents were asked to list what their child has mentioned about the project. The activities the children mentioned were e.g. on-line connections, co-operation between the schools, gamification, seed bombs, cleaning up the nature, talking pizza boxes (Makey Makey), coding, creating the presentations (e.g. fossil fuel) and creating the songs and playing music. Only one challenge was mentioned by a third grader´s parent: long English sessions during the mobilities.
Parents also highlighted how the project was disseminated at home by the children. They told to their parents how to save water, talked about energy consumption and producing, environmental issues, recycling, healthy,ecological food and plastics. One of the parents told how annoyed the child was when her snack was packed into a small plastic bag.
According to most of the parents the project promoted the motivation and learning of their children. 100% of parents found it very important or important to join international projects like SDGsAction!
Summary of the results in English evaluation of FINNISH families.doc
Responses from Finnish parents