Comenius Partnership 2010/2012 Business Ideas for the Future BIF

VII Transnational Meeting Bacau - Romania 8 - 12 May 2012 A. Marietta – F. Mingozzi

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Dissemination: Comenius Partnership 2008 - 2010 TTL Together to learn

Period: 2008 – 2010 Participating countries:Italy, Romania, Turkey Type of instituion: Upper Secondary Education Mobilities: 12 – teachers/country Transnational meeting: 5

Before the project some teachers found it difficult : to bridge the gap in mixed abilities classes to motivate, support, enhance ICT and peer education to provide students with LL tools

to share teaching learning experience to help students learn-to-learn in mixed abilities classes to enhance personal learning styles, to motivate, to support to prevent early school leaving and enhance ICT

Theachers read and commented the Recommendations of the European Parliament and of the Council on key competences for lifelong learning 12/12/2006 394 10/18

“to pursue and persist in learning and to organise one's learning including effective management of time and information both individually and in groups”

“to produce new didactic tools to develop the ability to use tools to produce present and understand complex information” “to dedicate time to learnng autonomously” “to persevere with learning and to reflect critically on the purposes of learning”

How to solve the problems? Maybe looking for a new method? Maybe working with teachers from different countries to share expertise? How to solve the problems?

What? Maybe something more personalised, young students’ tailored… Maybe online? Maybe not! Something multi task? multi what? I don’t know, it’s late, well …see you! ok let’s try She’s mad. We should be stricter.

Solution: Finding partners sharing a European project meant to improve teaching strategies

Comenius application form filled in and submitted to National Agency. Consequence: Comenius application form filled in and submitted to National Agency. Project approved

Stages analyse plan create use evaluate

Initial formative step: Analyse and plan Analysis of problem Analysis of needs Possible solutions Brainstorming ideas Finding a solution: ICT! Learning object creation: Create Setting workpackages Creating online platform Creating online Lo (multi path courses) Setting deadlines for activities Creating evaluation tools (of students’ results, Lo and method)

LO, a multi-path learning object: multi path online courses with different graded activities in Italian and Romanian literature, English and Italian, Romanian and Turkish History

Working with students: Use Students’ briefing Working with students Evaluating students’ performances Evaluation: Evaluate Evaluating method Evaluating project Considering transferability Reporting to colleagues and teachers’ board

TEACHERS are involved in exploitation of learning objects work together both online and at schools in different countries are involved in exploitation of learning objects are involved in evaluation process experiment new online teaching method

STUDENTS are involved in exploitation of learning objects are informed about project are involved in exploitation of learning objects are involved in evaluation process get in touch with European pals

INSTITUTIONS are informed about project are informed about progress are involved in dissemination colleagues are enabled to benefit

Swot S/O= motivation, innovative method, one to one online tutoring, students’ self awareness, enhanced confidence, better time management, transferability of method, teachers’ cooperation, flexibility of method (curricular or remedial work), european added value,foreign langiage enhancement, widening teaching learning perspectives W/T= very long planning, activities done online maybe performed by someone else

Dissemination 2008 - 2011: Local: teachers’ board, school magazine, school website European: material uploaded on European Shared Treasure, dissemination at study visits in Spain and Slovenia International: book about project, available in Italy, Romania, Turkey and Israel, book about History topic of the project, available in Italy, Romania, Turkey and Israel, award by Shoa Museum in Jerusalem

http://www.liceoantonelli.it/european-corner/12-comenius www.claroline.liceoantonelli.novara.it/comenius