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The first Joint Staff Training Event

It took all partner schools to Escola Martinet in Cornella de Llobregat (Barcelona) from 25th to 29th November 2019. 

During the 4-days events we participated in good practice exchange, training & workshops at the National Museum of Mathematics, exploring new methodologies and activities like Flipped Classroom and worksations (racons).

We also took that opportunity to exchange our Project Mascots and organise next activities. 

It was an important professional experience. All the partners exchanged ideas, information, experiences; they could see how Escola Martinet’s teachers teach Maths and how they mix new methodologies. 

The workshop at the National Museum of Mathematics was an opportunity to explore new methodologies and activities and to consider “old” strategies from a different point of view.

The second joint staff training event

It brought all partner schools to the Ettore Sacconi Comprehensive Institute in Tarquinia (Viterbo) from 10 to 14 February 2020.

The focus of the meeting concerned Coding, both in its more concrete and experiential version, the unplugged one, and in its application in the digital environment.

During the 4-day events we participated in exchanges of good practices and a first Coding training (Hour of the Code).

Together we explored and experimented with new methodologies and activities in this specific didactic context, also coming to grasp input for the resolution of some problems that we had encountered in our students and for which we had not yet found adequate solutions.

We also took the opportunity to exchange the mascots of our project, which will bring with them the memories of this experience thanks to the diaries that school pupils have drawn up during the stay of the mascots in their schools.

Finally, we proceeded to organize the next activities.

The third joint staff training event

After pausing the project due to the Covid-19 situation a new Mobility and Training Event was organised. This time Malta hosted the third joint staff training meeting from 9th to 12th November, and where all partners could resume the project activities. UK partner could not participate physically due to travelling restrictions, but managed to join up virtually.

This training meeting was organised by Future Focus and their sister school Newark School. The main aim was to focus, share and explore the concept of Gamification, methodology that is broadly use in the Maltese school.

During the 4-day-training event participants could observe and interact with the different activities carried out at the hosting school, talk to teachers and students, and learn about the Maltese Curriculum.

After the meeting all partners agreed to implement back in their schools some of the observed activities and to explore in deep the implementation of gamification as an innovative way of teaching / learning.

The fourth joint staff training event

From the 21st to the 26th March we participated in the fourt meeting of our project, in Izmir. Our Turkish friends welcomed us with great hospitality, making us feel at home.

Those were days of hard work. After a welcome show with songs and dances, we observed a lot of interesting and funny didactic activities proposed by the kindergarden and primary school: many beautiful learning games, to be copied and carried out in our classes!

The training activities were also very interesting for us. We were able to test our logic skills (not always successfully !!!!!!)

But all good things end.

Here we are swarming the mascots and Camilla, our mascot, comes home to Italy. And we are receiving our certificates of participation during the final meeting.

The fifth joint staff training event

From the 26th to the 29th April we participated in the fifht meeting of the project, in Birmingham.

 We visited the three partner schools and we were able to see, while in a different way, how the creativity associated with new technologies and practical activities is able to promote logical-critical thinking and mathematical learning.

We got to know specifically the English national curriculum for mathematics and were able to view the files of the national mathematics tests, which were administered to the students in those days. Above all, this last point was very interesting for us and gave us input for thought: in a few days our students would also be subjected to the INVALSI tests! We discovered similarities and differences, which we then shared with our colleagues upon returning to Tarquinia.

Summarizing, the final meeting brought together the entire training and application path that saw us involved in the three-year period, highlighting how much we have learned and how much our teaching professionalism is now richer.