The project seeks to consider, in depth what Future Learning will look like for young people and adults alike. It will focus on the ten identified areas of strength of the five schools involved which are : New Technology, Mastery Larning, Personalised learning and support for language learmers, Patrimony Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, Learning from the Past, CLIL & Growth Mindset and Talent Development., One World Activities and Architecture as part of school development. Given the nature of the demographics of the five schools, with increasingly migrant populations as well as a need to ensure our disadvantaged students and students with SEND have full access to both the work and the results of the project, our collaboration will intentionally have an inclusive identity. This will be achieved in two ways: Firstly the project's foci lead naturally to addressing best practice for these groups of students. Secondly, we will be actively encouraging, recruiting and facilitating inclusion into the project work and meetings for these young people. The project aims to develop the best practice and identify the most effective developments in the pedagogies and methodologies for future schools and beyond into the realms of the lifelong learner. It also plans to use the extensive networks in which the four partners work to ensure these developments are disseminated and influence the decision makers of European Education and beyond. Over 100 students aged between 14 and 17 and 30 staff will be actively involved in Action Research over the two years with the project work extended beyond the staff in the five schools through regular open workshops, TeachMeets and one Conference (Begabungstag). The best practice developed through the Action Research completed by the staff and students will then be put into effect during project meetings when the students will experience, evaluate and further develop the practice identified. Staff will be further involved during these project meetings in further work on the new pedagogies and methodologies as well as cooperating on the best means of their implementation in the schools. Materials (film documentation and handbook on the project) and e-learning materials will be disseminated within and beyond the particpating schools - e.g. on the project website as well as through the numerous local, national and international networks in which the five schools are involved. It is hoped that the work of the five schools will impact on education on a global scale through the innovative theme it seeks to address. We envisage these developments having a positive effect on students both as learners in school and later in life as they adopt radical life-long learner approaches we seek to discover together.
Like their fellow students the participants in the Erasmus project OWNING THE FUTURE are preparing themselves for a world that is changing faster than ever. Will they own the future ... or will the future own them? Our Erasmus+ project brought together students from across Europe to share their thoughts, exchange their cultures and give them a forum to inverstigate what their future might look like and give them the confidence to shape it. From the first meeting in Augsburg - with the inputs and impulses provided by such experts as Jaakov Hecht and George Pennington - via the following meetings in Murcia, Strassburg, Augsburg, Penzance and Cornwall we have aimed at making the students decide on the various foci of this project. In the two meetings in Augsburg the foci have been on Participation, Project Work and Learning from the Past. The meeting in Murcia focused on Inclusion and the Visions of Future Education. Ecology and Sustainability plus Learning from the Past were the main foci at the meetings in Penzance and Amstelveen. The individual activities, the cooperations as well as the results are described in detail on our common Erasmus website: https://sites.google.com/mountsbay.org/erasmus2018/home It goes without saying that not all the ambitious aims we have been striving for have been achieved to their full extent. However, we have managed to implement a considerable amount of our project results in the individual partner schools and disseminate some outcomes of our Erasmus project OWNING THE FUTURE even beyond school. So in retropsect the project OWNING THE FUTURE has met our high expectations. The experiences and outcomes of the Erasmus project have been useful in the neggotiations of the Holbein Gymnasium with the City Council concerning the planning for the school restiration. The Maria Theresia Gymnasium has declared the focus of the last Erasmus meetings in Penzance and Amstelveen - Sustainability - as the school motto for the current school year. The Amstelveen partner school benefitted from the focus on Visions of Future Education is so far as these ideas and impulses will be used for the planning of the new school building. last but not least th Spanish parter school and the coordinating Maria Theresia Gymnasium have launched a new Erasmus project on the UN Sustainability Goals in which new partner schools in France, England and Italy will participate.