Context /Background All the partners of this project are school of the European mediterranean area which share a set of common problems in the everyday teaching activities: their students often fail to grasp the meaningful information for lack of interest and poor attention ( such as poor results in scientific subjects,inability to use maps or notes in a meaningful way.) The number of low achievers in scientific subjects should be not underestimated (especially girls) Objective As the mission of all the partners is to improve the quality of their teaching/learning activities, we all want to take advantage of this project to implement a sort of a bottom up approach to improve the quality of our teaching and learning offer . The general common approach will be holistic and mainly inspired to edutainment philosophy, discovery and experiential learning The main aim are: to improve the performances and the willingness to take risk of low achievers, lowering their resistance thanks to combination of enjoyable and engaging activities to implement activities which are based on critical thinking and creativity to raise the level of competence in English as ESL and hopefully in a third language to get the outmost of ICT blended resources to promote the added value of sport in education to boost active European citizenship , cultural tolerance and awareness Number of participants The mobilities planned will involve a total of 225 people (students and teachers and principals) but the number of people involved in the project activities at schools level is much wider ( over 2500 people all together) If we consider the disseminating actions and cooperation with other agents we overcome 3000 people. Profile The students age range goes from 14 to 19. They all attend high schools and most of them are prospective university students. Some of the partner have previous experience in European projects some are new. But they all have as common denominator a high professional profile of the teachers involved . The subjects covered are : Maths , Physics, Chemistry , ICT, Physical Education, Geography, History , Arts, English , Spanish and French.There will be a number of collaborations with University departments in Turin , Chania and Izmir, teachers trainers associations ( lend, British Council, AIIG (association of geography teachers,) Maths associations in Italy, Greece, Turkey and Spain, the Cern In Geneve, Europe Direct Agency in Turin, publishing companies in the field of education, Sports and Coffee brands companies. Description of activities The range and the number of the activities planned is very high. Some partners have opted for a thematic cluster of activities such the Spanish partner with ‘the Reales Alcazares’ or the Turkish one which have focused the actives on Maths integrated with ICT and creative thinking practice Other partners have focused more on the methodologies and approaches (such as the Scratch and Robotics activities in Greece, The Marathon game inspired to Alan Turing , The compass activity about Quark, the pun word games in Italian and English of do yo tube in Turin Tube? proposed by the Italian school , the cryptography activity with credit cards Maths and the paperless classroom proposed by the school in Cyprus . The list and the variety is really very rich and worth to be experimented. Description of expected results One of the project aim is to share the ‘good practices’ among teachers, that’s why we will make our best to share ore ‘good ones’ The activities planned will be implemented in the curricular activities of the schools.All of them will be free available on the website of the projects and other educational platforms. The most valuable will be grouped together and published on paper brochure and if possible in a sort of ebook format. They will be the outcome of joint activities among teachers of the same subjects. Some activities will be available on dedicated websites (like the MIT one) on FB professional groups and other social networks .There will be also a photographic exhibition which we hope could stem in a series of follow ups and a visit to CERN in Geneve to present the outcome of a workshop Potential long term benefits We believe that spreading the words about the all the philosophy of the project , its outcomes, its success, strength and also the analysis of critical points and stages , the assessment results and teaching, will raise the quality profile of the schools and will create opportunities to extend the project and develop new partnerships. Maybe with a wider range of partners . This will provide a good reason for all the partners involved to invest time and effort in dissemination and follow up.
Context /Background All the partners of this project were schools of the European mediterranean area which share a set of common problems in the everyday teaching activities: their students often fail to grasp the meaningful information for lack of interest and poor attention ( such as poor results in scientific subjects, inability to use maps or notes in a meaningful way.) The number of low achievers in scientific subjects was not underestimated (especially girls) and required tailored strategies to face this problem Objective As the mission of all the partners was to improve the quality of their teaching, we all wanted to take advantage of this project to implement a sort of a bottom up approach to improve the quality of our teaching offer. The general approach has been holistic and mainly inspired to edutainment philosophy, problem solving ,thought provoking task based learning, team work and cooperative learning, learning by discovery and many others The main aim were : to improve the performances and the willingness to take risk of low achievers, lowering their resistance thanks to combination of enjoyable and engaging activities to improve the performances of average high achievers thanks to their commitment creativeness ability to think out of scheme, their curiosity , enthusiasm , capacity to face challenges, doing their best not only as individual but supporting team work and their role within a group. to raise the level of competence in English as EFL to get the outmost of ICT and digital technologies to promote sport in education to boost active European citizenship , cultural tolerance and awareness to allow partner schools to gain more visibility for quality matters Number of participants The initial mobilities planned involved a total of 225 people (students and teachers and principals) asa matter of fact the number of people who got the grant to join a mobility was higher. The number of people involved in the project activities at schools level was much wider ( over 2500 people all together) If we consider the disseminating actions and cooperation with other agents we overcame 3000 people. Profile The students age range went from 14 to 19 and most of them were prospective university students. Some partner had previous experience in European projects some were new. But they all shared high professional profile of the teachers involved ( good and and sound proficiency of English , expertise of ICT tools , use of social media good digital and communication skills) . The subjects covered by the project activities were : Maths , Physics, Chemistry , ICT, PE, Geography, History , Arts, English , Spanish and French. There were some collaborations with University departments in Turin , Chania teachers associations ( Italian MIUR, British Council, AIIG (association of geography teachers,) Maths associations, the Cern in Geneve) . Description of activities The range and the number of the activities planned was very high. Some partners opted for a thematic cluster of activities such as exploring cultural place (e.g. the Spanish partner with ‘the Reales Alcazares’, the Cypriot partner with the Mosaics which will become one of the event of Pafos 2017.Some activities focused on the creative use of software ( Geogebra and some apps made for Maths low achievers) Maths was a common theme for Maths Dance whose videos on Youtube reached more than 10000 views and Maths Marathon inspired to Alan Turing work. Other teachers have focused more on the methodologies and approaches (such as the Scratch and Robotics activities in Greece, the Cryptography activity with credit cards and Maths) All of them used widely ICT and digital technologies (most of all The Eu Factor , Hand Gesture, Bloopers and Who wants to be Millionaire) The list and the variety is really very rich and worth to be experimented. Description of expected results One of the project aim was to share the ‘good practices’ among teachers, that’s why we made our best to share the ‘good ones’ The activities planned have been implemented in schools curricula and are all free available on the website of the projects and other educational platforms. Potential long term benefits We believe that spreading the words about the all the philosophy of the project , its outcomes, its success, strength and also the analysis of critical points and stages , the assessment results and teaching, has already raised the quality profile of the schools and will create opportunities to extend the project and develop new partnerships. Maybe with a wider range of partners . This will provide a good reason for all the partners involved to invest time and effort in dissemination and follow up.