The intended project aims at encouraging tri-lingual (foreign)language teaching. It includes a strategic school partnership which comprises a German, a Spanish and an English School. In their profiles all three schools put an emphasis on the advancement of foreign languages, deriving from that emphasis the respective conditions in the schools facilitate the successful realisation of the intended project.The demand to improve foreign language teaching has been asserted by teachers of all three schools. The teachers have especially criticised the missing authentic character in the learning of foreign languages and also that the lessons are normally not product-oriented. They attribute the decreasing learning success to this situation. These assumptions have been confirmed by observations and enquiries made by the teachers; as a consequence a counter-action seems necessary.The encouragement of the basic skills (reading and writing) in foreign language teaching and the advancement of the digital capabilities are determined as the ultimate ambition of the project. Within the duration of the project the participants are supposed to create (in history and foreign language lessons) three different project elaborations each with a historical focus. The results have to be composed in the languages: German, English and Spanish. The three European schools will be cross-linked by eTwinning, which will be used as a basis in order to guarantee a continuous exchange of all the involved institutions and of the project participants. This exchange will be implemented in the daily lessons. The establishment of TwinSpace can support the organisation of these lessons by facilitating a direct international communication of the partner schools. Furthermore, the realisation of different open forms of lessons should provide for an improvement of the learning success in the foreign languages and for an increase in the motivation of the pupils to learn foreign languages. The reflection of the lessons and the exchange of information about the observations of all participants is an important component of the project. The project will be evaluated at scheduled regular intervals in order to guarantee a quality assurance.In addition to the project elaboration the participating teachers will work out a project guideline in which they will compile and reflect all materials and methods used in the project. This guideline will also serve as a documentation of the project and it should be a basis for subsequent similar projects and a helpful assistance in carrying them into execution. This is one of the most important sustainable benefits of the project. In three project meetings the respective project results are to by summed up synergistically and are to be presented in front of the particular school communities. In this connection all participants in the project should also evaluate the project on the strength of their experience to date. The further processing and advancement of the intended project guideline will be incorporated into these meetings. The project management, the time management and the budget monitoring will be planned and guaranteed by all participants in equal measure. The impact of the project refers to the persons directly involved in the project and to the group of people and the institutions and organisations which can be reached by the presentations of the project results.
The OHS as coordinating institution has carried out an international, tri-lingual foreign languages project together with the Howard School in Gillingham (UK) and the IES (Slain). Content of the project was to write and produce a multi-lingual musical. This took place in lessons as well as in working groups The thus created musical has primarily a historical and political focus: the resistance of the youth against the regime of the National Socialists in the 1930s. The planning and realization of the project was in the hands of the participating pupils with the teachers taking on a supportive role. The regular exchange between the participating schools and works groups in between the project meetings was very innovative. With the help of modern media, the participants were able to communicate constantly in virtual classrooms and exchanged data and documents. In this process E-twinning and Twin space were as useful as smartphones and digital text messages via SMS, WhatsApp or email. On a meta level the participating teachers have compiled a guideline, which lists the most important points, so that it can serve as an inspiration and basis for similar projects. A continual evaluation regarding the content-related learning objectives (historical facts and language improvement) as well as the methodological competences (use of digital media) and also - last but not least - the motivation of the pupils has shown, that an increase in all the areas mentioned above can be seen.