KA122-SCH – Short-term projects for mobility of learners and staff in school education “Intercultural communication through (democratic) education”
Project Reference: 2021-1-EE01-KA122-SCH-000030996 https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2021-1-EE01-KA122-SCH-000030996
Project period: 1.09.2021 – 1.11.2022
Project partners – hosting schools
- Democratisch Onderwijs Regio Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Ensemble scolaire de L’Archipel, France
- European Cultural Academy, Netherlands
- LICEO ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI, Italy
Project objectives
- Creating opportunities to foster diversity in learning styles from a multicultural perspective.
- Developing a spirit of EU citizenship among students and staff
- Exploring, developing, implementing and actively using new digital tools in our European partner schools, aiming at encouraging students to participate in formal and informal learning activities
- Fostering opportunities for the school staff to acquire new skills in the field of arts and other relevant fields to be used in the teaching process and for the benefit of students in order to address such challenges and issues as lack of motivation regarding their own learning, passive attitudes towards learning, both academic and cultural, poor civic practices, especially apathy towards participation in decision-making, lack of engagement or passive participation in other learning activities except the mandatory academic hours and homework, new teaching methods, etc
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Activities
3 short-term learning mobility of students for 6 pupils – 2 from TKG gymnasium grades and 4 from the democratic branch of TKG Suvemäe. The mobility included: lessons in the hosting countries, according to the interest of students (geography, mathematics, history, etc), cultural events organized by the hosting schools, Estonian cultural presentations, introductory course to the language of the hosting country, virtual meetings with the hosting partners including participation of students to be sent in the mobility. The plans for the activities were elaborated with each hosting partner and together with the participating students.
courses and trainings. One teacher of English language has participated in the interactive course for language educators as an opportunity to develop the language teaching skills in an international environment “Teaching language through arts” in Venice, Italy.
Impact
Students got acquainted with the teaching-learning styles from the hosting countries mainly of the selected subjects. They have learned about the content of those subjects and which are the main learning objectives, about the communication between students and teachers; about the cultures of the hosting countries such as arts, history, geography, family, communication between parents and children, teenager culture. They have acquired new digital skills and tools, etc. The participants have practiced/discovered new languages. All of our participants displayed more motivation to get involved in the study process, to actively participate in the learning and develop a critical thinking and a spirit of European citizen.
The participant teacher has developed a 4-lesson plan applying new methods of teaching English through Arts. The new methods will be shared at school level.
