1. World Teachers’ Day EPALE celebrates 5 October 2016 0476323703
With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union

2. ON THE AGENDA 0476323703 #worldteachersday
11.05 h: 'Adult education for the 21st century‘
12.00 h: Video Live&Learn project
12.15 h: Belgian coordinators for the European Agenda for Adult Learning 
13.00 h: Lunch
14.00 h: Video Live&Learn project
EPALE as a learning tool, Wilhelm Vukovich
The Big Learning Week, Ghislain De Bondt
The flipped classroom, Gaëlle Boulet
15.00 h: Speeddating to share 21st century proof good practices
15.45 h: Celebration and goodbye drink
#worldteachersday

3. The Big
Learning Week
Ghislain De Bondt

4. Centrum voor Basiseducatie ‘Leerpunt’ Zuid-Oost-Vlaanderen
The BIG project week
Centrum voor Basiseducatie ‘Leerpunt’ Zuid-Oost-Vlaanderen

5. Hi I’m Ghislain and I work at a great school
Center for Basic Education ZOVL
Adult education specific for lower skilled adults - Mission = increase literacy skills
Courses are built around keys skills Maths - reading&writing Dutch - ICT - general subjects: theoretical drivers’ license, how to cope with stress, live
healthy, be assertive, ….
Top course = learning Dutch for foreign language speakers (70%)
+/ adult students/yr in our region - staff = +/- 65
+/ students in Flanders (and Brussels) in sector Basic Education with +/ staff

6. Before we dive into the main subject ...
….. brief history lesson

7. The origin of the Centers of Basic Education: volunteers - the 60ties

8. In 1990 we were added to the Education field - we became teachers

9. Parental Advisory: this is rather exaggerated !!!
After 25 years a lot is changed - we now have curricula - we deliver certificates …. more formally education

10. Every approach has his qualities but ….
Curricula
Certificats
Modularisation courses
...
Teach what you want
No evaluation
No curricula
...
...it’s all about blending the best of both ‘worlds’

11. We strongly felt the need for a new andragogical project

12. Important Guiding Principles
More initiatives that bring natives and immigrants together
Our team wants more focus on innovation and creativity
Facilitate ways to encourage students to show their talents
More competence driven learning in authentic learning tasks
Less formal teaching methods
Bringing teachers from different domains together
Important
Guiding Principles

13. How can we stimulate this?
Let’s start with a BIG project week!

14. So we started to brainstorm in a workgroup

15. And we made choices with our teachers

16. Conclusions about our approach
The team wants a very BIG … BIG project week!
We dismiss all courses during one week
All teachers hold workshops ‘as much as they can’ and -if they could- in allocation with students
We choose to work around a common subject
Every lunchtime students can stay and eat something what is cooked in one of the workshops
Every student can subscribe for every workshop
Conclusions about our approach

17. 2014

18. 90 workshops on 6 locations - subject: leisure
Google Drive: promo-presentations en subscribe lists
Example subscription list Aalst
Administration: consult verification
Team logistic

19. Evaluation Wow !!! Teacher: I felt like I was back at the boy- scouts
This is learning in a very fun way
Some students were a lot different than during the ‘normal’ courses
It’s nice to see natives and immigrants work together and have real contact
Administration: it was hell
But … let’s do this again !!!
Evaluation

20. 2015

21. Subject: arts&culture (in town) Even more workshops
Promo-presentation Aalst
New way of administration
ticketing system
No lunch (much more activities outside the school)
End activity

22. 2016
BIG …. BIG changes

23. It was a success again … but this version ...
NO subject: it’s all about gaining new impressions
NO administration please … attendance lists for activities during normal schedule
Thursday we all went out and visit something together (per location), so more than 400 students went out on a school trip
BUT ...we started this academic year in september with 4 groups of project-based learning for an experiment of one year.
→ Four teachers organise projects with students about different subjects. It’s the teacher who ensures that all competencies (like maths, languages, social skills, …) are covered. 4 groups/total of appr students
First project = start to gardening!

24. So …
step by step
we are heading to
more experience driven and project-based learning

25. karine.nicolay@epos-vlaanderen.be michele.mombeek@cfwb.be
With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union