SKILL BASED and LIFE LONG learning, including 21st century skills, are becoming more and more important in European educational systems. RESEARCH is done in many schools, but not often is the research TRANSNATIONAL IN EXECUTION. Traditions regarding the execution of research and teaching research skills at schools vary. Sharing best practice between schools from DIFFERENT COUNTRIES will contribute to EQUIPING learners for a dynamic EUROPEAN JOB MARKET. This project therefore aims at strengthening ENQUIRY BASED approach and research skills in teachers and students. Hence this project is aimed at* for TEACHERS developing a TRANSNATIONAL CURRICULUM regarding teaching RESEARCH SKILLS by sharing BEST PRACTICE * for STUDENTS - Enhancing RESEARCH SKILLS , increasing PRESENTATION SKILLS and enhancing EVALUATIVE SKILLS through SELF-and PEER assessment.Five schools take part in this project: IES Ramiro de Maeztu (Madrid, Spain), Istituto E. Montale Nuovo IPC (Genoa, Italy), John Fitzgerald Kennedy Schule (Berlin, Germany) , Kungsholmes Gymnasium (Stockhokm, Sweden) and Lorentz Lyceum (Arnhem, The Netherlands). IES Ramiro de Maeztu, Lorentz Lyceum and Kungsholmes Gymnasium are bilingual schools which have International Baccaularate Sections. All these five partners are points of reference for schools in their cities and, as International Baccaularate schools, they have a great experience in research, innovation and collaboration projects. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Schule is a school of reference in Berlin because of its bilingual program, with broad experience in research projects . Finally, Istituto E Montale Nuovo is an innovative school specialised in language learning. The METHODOLOGY is that we let both teachers and students learn form each other's best practice though the presentation of research in TRANSNATIONAL, PEER REVIEWED workshops organised around certain research themes.The teachers will use the symposia and teacher meetings to get FEED BACK and to establish best international practice and develop common materials for teaching research- and presenting skills.Hence in this project NINE MEETINGS WITH TEACHER -TRAINING ACTIVITIES will be organised , five of them alongside student symposia , where teachers explore DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES and BEST PRACTICE in ENQUIRY BASED LEARNING . Through the student symposia teachers will evaluate the process and the developed approaches to learning. They will develop a INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINE FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS towards student research and ENQUIRY BASED LEARNING with accompanying TEACHING MATERIALS. Five STUDENT SYMPOSIA in which 4 SELECTED STUDENTS from each participating school and 16 students from the receiving school o present their HIGH ACHIEVING RESEARCH PROJECTS 0 work on the development of "PROBLEMATIC " question in research o Reflect on their work presented: SELF ASSESSMENT o Receive and give feedback and feed-forward from fellow students: PEER ASSESSMENT o RECEIVE feedback and feed-forward from the accompanying TEACHERS of various schools present at the symposium o can benefit from the developing common approach of teaching strategies. Each school will host one of the symposia and organises a solid scientic research visiting programme. The receiving school selects 16 students to participate in the programme. The visiting schools participate with 1 teachers and 4 students each. The expected results of the project will be the following ones:- INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINE AND MATERIALS FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS in the areas of research skills, peer review and presentation skills-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, POSTERS, ACADEMIC ARTICLES, WEBSITES AND VIDEOS created during the project. The expected impact is the following:- To spread good practices among schools , teacher Organisations and TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES- to increase professional teacher development and collaboration at a regional, national, European and International level- students will have a first successfull and stimulating experience of presenting their WORK in a transnational setting.- The LANGUAGE competence of students will be improved- The RESEARCH and PRESENTATION skills of STUDENTS AND TEACHERS will be improvedFinally the plan involves DISTRIBUTING the student and teacher products of this project during and after the project.- The aim is to create such COLLABORATION that also after the project finishes the schools will KEEP working together on improving research and giving students and teachers experience of doing research in a transnational setting by jointly use the materials developed and also by collaboration or joint VIDEOCONFERENCING workshops and DISTANCE PEER REVIEW .
Skill based research is increasingly done in many schools but presenting and improving research in an international setting is not. This project has made great inroads into this terrain and rendered signifcant results. As traditions regarding the execution of research and teaching research skills at schools vary the 5 schools in the project have learned a lot from each other. Sharing best practice between schools from DIFFERENT COUNTRIES has generated materials and experiences that have prepared the students involved much better for the dynamic EUROPEAN JOB MARKET. This project has developed an ENQUIRY BASED approach and research skills in teachers and students. TEACHERS have been able to develop a TRANSNATIONAL CURRICULUM regarding teaching RESEARCH SKILLS by sharing BEST PRACTICE. STUDENTS have: - Enhanced RESEARCH SKILLS - developed or improved PRESENTATION SKILLS and - enhanced EVALUATIVE SKILLS through SELF-and PEER assessment. Five schools have taken part in this project: IES Ramiro de Maeztu (Madrid, Spain), Istituto E. Montale Nuovo IPC (Genoa, Italy), John Fitzgerald Kennedy Schule (Berlin, Germany) , Kungsholmes Gymnasium (Stockholm, Sweden) and Lorentz Lyceum (Arnhem, The Netherlands). All these five partners are points of reference for schools in their cities and have spread the practices and materials of the project to other schools and teacher organisations. The methodology used was that both teachers and students learn form each other's best practice though the presentation of research in TRANSNATIONAL, PEER REVIEWED workshops. The teachers used the symposia and teacher meetings to get FEED BACK and to establish best international practice and develop common materials for teaching research- and presenting skills. NINE MEETINGS WITH TEACHER -TRAINING ACTIVITIES were organised , five of them alongside student symposia , and teachers have explored DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES and BEST PRACTICE in ENQUIRY BASED LEARNING . The student symposia were used to evaluate the materials by students and teachers. This way INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS towards student research and ENQUIRY BASED LEARNING with accompanying TEACHING MATERIALS were produced. They have all been brought together on the project website. The five STUDENT SYMPOSIA in which 4 SELECTED STUDENTS from each participating school took part in which the students participating: - Presented RESEARCH PROJECTS worked on a "PROBLEMATIC " question in research - Reflected on their work presented: SELF ASSESSMENT - Received and gave feedback and feed-forward from fellow students: PEER ASSESSMENT - Received feedback and feed-forward from the accompanying TEACHERS of various schools Details of the programmes including names of research centres visited and academic speakers at the events can be found on the project website. Each school hosted one of the symposia and organised a scientic research visiting programme. The total of activities in the project produced: - INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINE AND MATERIALS FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS in the areas of research skills, peer review and presentation skill (all collected and accesible on the website) -SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH and scientic posters (most of them available on the website) The impact has been the following: - spreading of good practice among schools , teacher organisations and Tteacher training colleges - professional teacher development events at the participating sjhools - hundreds of students presenting their WORK in a transnational setting. - Noticable lANGUAGE competence improvement of of students after participating in the events and staying with host families - Improvement of RESEARCH and PRESENTATION skills of STUDENTS AND TEACHERS - distribution of the projects products to non participating students at the schools involved and other schools not pasrticipating in the project. - continued collaboration bethween the five schools through video conference, distance peer review and other activities.