Based on the experience accumulated over the previous projects our students were the ones who outlined the issue of this new one: their concern for healthy living. it was then when we contacted many schools till form a group with similar aims and ideas about the project and we ended up selecting the more appropriate. Some of them with experience in European projects and some other unexperienced but that could contribute with new and fresh ideas. We want this project to serve to boost a more committed behavior of our school communities, taking advantage of new technologies and transmitting their experiences to each other. Cooperating to produce a final product, using English as a tool for accessing knowledge and for being in contact with culturally different realities permeate our project. Creativity, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking and analysis will be the thinking skills we will focus on, and citizenship, social responsibility, cultural awareness, challenging stereotypes and networking the ones within the social skills. Everything aimed to develop the three general themes Health, Food and Relationships within the broader issue “It’s My Life, It’s My Choice”. Health education is any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities to improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes. Unfortunately alcohol and drugs have become more socially acceptable and this makes it even easier for people to try them at younger ages. We believe that all children should understand the origins of their food: where it comes from, how it is produced and its meaning for personal and public health. providing students food and nutrition education will empower them with lifelong skills, so that they can make their choice when necessary. What they buy, what they eat will make a difference for the world they want to live in. Relationships are powerful. Our caring for each other is often what motivates us to make changes. Thus, establishing connections with people from diverse backgrounds can be key in making significant changes in our communities. As individuals, and in groups, we can change our communities. We plan local associated institutions that will help us in the development of the above mentioned topics . They are experts in the different fields we want to work on. Some work in the field of health and prevention of drugs addition, some deal with organic production and others work with immigrants and refugees. We have designed our project for 36 months. Each school year, every term, we will work in a specific area that will be complemented during the following years. Spain will be the coordinator and also the responsible for the ICT aspects. French Polynesia will be in charge of eTwinning and Dutch partners of the sport and outdoor activities. Turkey will lead the activities related to CLIL aspects and in the Swedish school they will organize the activities related to organic food. All possible methods of communication will be used, including e-mail, telephone, teleconference, fax, Skype and, of course, the eTwinning platform as an additional tool to support cooperation. The language we will use in our partnership will be English, but as another of our aims is to motivate and reinforce the learning of European languages, we will ensure the presence of our national languages in the blog, in the wiki and in products such as brochures or books. It will be the students responsibility to motivate their partners to learn some useful words and sentences during the mobilities. Project meetings will be made in accordance with the project diary in the participating schools. At the beginning of each school year there will be a transnational teachers meeting and every school year there will be two transnational short meetings with students. To reach the above mentioned objectives , we will produce these results: a DVD with presentations about the different participating schools, a brochure with information about the project, the website with the blog and the wiki, the logo, our project song and dance, a school garden, a book with all the conclusions and a multilingual dictionary. Monitoring and evaluation are crucial for the success of our project. To assess the scope, the aims and outcomes of the project, we will conduct surveys and questionnaires to students and teachers, every school term and also at the end of each mobility. This work will require, as a first step, the design and development of common and specific tools developed in our partnership. The implementation of the project has already started. All the schools have joined a common eTwinning project to meet together and to exchange experiences. The teachers teams are already organized and frequent meetings with the local associated partners have been kept to decide how they can cooperate with us.
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. For us, as teachers , our daily work involves institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum but we can’t forget that any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. It’s there where our Erasmus+ project fits, preparing students for life as active citizens. Informal learning for young people is an ongoing process that occurs in a variety of places, not only at home or at school. This project allows us to offer our students a wider range of opportunities by being working with other European schools’ partners. It’s our duty to reflect on what life skills they will need to succeed, building a bridge into the future. Creativity, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking and analysis will be the thinking skills we will focus on, and citizenship, social responsibility, cultural awareness, challenging stereotypes and networking the ones within the social skills. Everything aimed humans to develop the three general themes Health, Food and Human Relationships within the broader issue “It’s My Life, It’s My Choice" Health education is a combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities to improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes. Smoking, drinking, and using drugs can really affect people's lives. Unfortunately alcohol and some drugs have become more socially acceptable, and this makes it even easier for people to experiment at younger ages. In addition, alcohol and drugs are readily accessible to many of today's youngsters, which further increases the likelihood that they will use substances at some time. We believe that all children should understand the origins of their food: where it comes from, how it is produced, and what it means for personal and public health. Equipping students with food and nutrition education will empower them with lifelong skills, so that they can make their choice where necessary. What they buy, what they eat will make a difference for the world they want to live in. Human relationships are powerful. It is our connection to each other that gives meaning to our lives. Our caring for each other is often what motivates us to make change. And establishing connections with people from diverse backgrounds can be key in making significant changes in our communities. As individuals, and in groups, we can change our communities. Becoming aware of our own culture is the first step in learning about other people’s culture. Technology plays an increasingly significant role in improving our lives for people living in both impoverished areas and developing countries. Technology is transforming fast and people are interconnected, making communication global and rapid. That’s why technology will be the support for almost all the activities to be done along the whole project. We will integrate the project in our schools curriculum through activities which will help students to encourage the simultaneous learning of content and a foreign language. Promoting in our schools a content and learning integrated language (CLIL) we will develop our pupils' communicative competences in other languages. Most of the activities imply students' collaborative-learning tasks, and they will be arranged in such a way that communication among students and teachers of the different schools will be essential. We will take advantage of the ICT tools, the educational possibilities of blogs and wikis. These content development and management technologies will enable an interactive and inter-creative engagement amongst students and between students and teachers. We want our pupils to reflect on their own learning process by sharing what they are learning at school with their foreign partners. This will develop responsibility within pupils allowing them to be involved in decision making and the implementation of activities, increasing students' motivation and making learning process more attractive for them. Pupils will develop confidence, leadership and entrepreneurial skills by allowing them to lead small groups within planned activities. The project will enable our schools to learn about good practices in nutrition, lifestyle, sport and hygiene. At the same time, and following what the 2020 strategy says, we are sure that with our project, students who are in risk of early school leaving will feel motivated to participate in school daily activities. It will be a different way to fully develop their talents for them to become lifelong learners. These students usually feel themselves more confident and eager to cooperate with their classmates when we use methodologies closer to their lifestyle learning environment that focuses on their needs.