THE Paths of Europe PARTNERSHIP: This is an association of four Secondary Schools from four very different countries and locations (A seventy-year-old school in Konskie Poland; a traditional rural school in Terralba, Sardinia (Italy); a big secondary urban school in Hasselt, Belgium and a comprehensive (ESO and VET courses) IES Secondary School in the outskirts of Zaragoza, Spain). We teach a population of approximately 3600 students, hire 450 staff and share common approaches to teaching and methodology. Within our common commitment towards improving our quality standards, each of us will specialize in one aspect of our exchange of good practices during local and transnational activities. THEMES: Our project's theme is Active Tourism and wants to allow students to work on a CLIL approach. We also cover transversal concepts about entrepreneurship and a sense of early vocational education towards such qualifications and skills as Outdoor Education, Guidance in Outdoor Activities and a strong bias on the notions of Health, Wellbeing, Social Inclusion and Accessibility in the natural world. Bilingualism (CLIL) and the Pedagogical principles of "Learning by doing" will be the cornerstones of our Methodology. Group Work through the use of a rational use of ICT's (eTwinning and dedicated websites) will be one of its most sought after outputs. This transversal innovative approach is where our name, Paths of Europe, derives from. AIMS: We want to make our students and teachers share school content with other participants in order to visualize the potential of learning a trade and the possibility of living in two languages; we also want to develop a sense of entrepreneurship by studying active examples of bilingual enterprises and how a part of these initiatives can be dealt with online. To sum up, the competences we are after are: increasing literacy in the use of online work-platforms (eTwinning as an online business simulator); entrepreneurial skills; higher degree of bilingualism (we want all participants to switch languages without resorting to so much translation) and a notorious degree of enthusiasm and commitment with curricula. We want our students to embrace the idea that also Vocational Training is an option after their Compulsory Education period at our schools. The project seeks to provide our students with wider horizons as far as employability is concerned. WORK PROCESS: All the tasks will be agreed upon by partners, and the role of the coordinator (IES Itaca) will consist mainly of being a moderator as nobody in the association will be assigned any tasks without having previously accepted to deal with them. We have discussed all aspects of the project in the eTwinning Group Forums and will endeavour to fulfil these main activities: - Work for two years under Erasmus+ funding and maintain the eTwinning Project and Group all along project life. - A joint week for Secondary School students in each of the participant schools (four 7-day homestays). - Send and receive students on work placements to several countries in the EU and mix our KA219 project with a VET KA102 project. - Publish project highlights on School's websites. - Collaborate with the European Institute of Cultural Routes. - Generate a new OER for implementing our Paths of Europe's PASSPORT and Field Book. - Implement Bilingualism skills in every aspect of school community and, above all, in school curricula. - Two steering project meetings. EXPECTED RESULTS - Changes in our surrounding areas and improve access to disabled people for outdoor activities. - We want to create an annual Active Tourism Trade Fair. - We want to include some contents about social inclusion in our VET courses in accordance with the project's impact on teacher training and students' involvement. - We will create publicity videos, advertising leaflets and brochures for Active Tourism in designated routes or paths. Posters will have the form of Glogster. - Symbaloo Lesson Plan with our favourite task from the Paths of Europe Passport Tool. - Our most significant item will be a Totem (Signpost) to be built for each of the partner schools. IMPACT: We have designed this project with the idea providing impact potential for all activities and procedures. For this reason we plan to reach an impact of 100% (3600 students out of 3600) as we expect to involve the whole school community within the four partner schools at some time throughout the project lifecycle. The deepest and most direct kind of impact will be achieved among those students who will participate in mobilities but the project will involve the whole community in activities: massive dissemination acts; selection procedures, surveys, publicity, working meetings, CLIL lessons, exhibitions and school trips.
"Paths Of Europe" has been an association of four Secondary Schools from four very different countries and locations (A seventy-year-old school in Końskie Poland; a traditional rural school in Terralba, Sardinia (Italy); a big secondary urban school in Hasselt, Belgium and a comprehensive (ESO and VET courses) IES Secondary School in the outskirts of Zaragoza, Spain). We teach a population of approximately 3600 students, hire 450 staff and share common approaches to teaching and methodology. During the project’s lifetime we have kept our common commitment towards improving our quality standards, each of us covering one aspect of our exchange of good practices during local and transnational activities. THEMES: Our project’s main theme has been Active Tourism and both students and teachers have been using a CLIL approach. We have also covered transversal concepts about entrepreneurship and a sense of early vocational education towards such qualifications and skills as Outdoor Education, Guidance in Outdoor Activities and a strong bias on the notions of Health, Wellbeing, Social Inclusion and Accessibility in the natural world. Bilingualism (CLIL) and the Pedagogical principles of “Learning by doing” in international mixed teams were the cornerstones of our Methodology. Group Work through the use of a rational use of ICT’s have been our outputs. This transversal innovative approach is where our name, Paths of Europe, derived from. As for the use of ICT tools we have to highlight the following: -3D printers, -eTwinning - dedicated websites - traditional software: Word processors, Power Pont, Kahoot, Vimeo, QrCodes, Drone filming, - Adobe - Premier Pro AIMS: We have shared school content in order to visualize the potential of learning a trade and the possibility of living in many different languages; we have noticed that the project has cotributed to developing a sense of entrepreneurship in participants by observing active examples of bilingual activites and how a part of these initiatives can be dealt with online. We practiced and achieved these competences: increasing literacy in the use of online work-platforms (eTwinning as an online project ); entrepreneurial skills; higher degree of bilingualism (all participants have had to switch languages without resorting to so much translation). a notorious degree of enthusiasm and commitment with curricula. The subjects involved were: Foreing Languages, Physical Education, Geography, History of Art, History, ICT, We have helped participants embrace the idea that Vocational Training is an option after their Compulsory Education period at our schools. Our work provided our students with wider horizons as far as employability and academic compliance are concerned. WORK PROCESS: All the tasks were agreed upon by partners, and the role of the coordinator (IES Itaca) consisted of being a moderator; tasks were assigned after being accepted by the teams. Before the project, we discussed all aspects in the Group Forums. After that, we performed these main activities: Work for two years under Erasmus+ funding and maintain the eTwinning Project and Group all along project life. A joint week for Secondary School students in each of the participant schools (four 7-day homestays). Send and receive students on work placements to several countries in the EU and mix our KA219 project with a VET KA102 project. Publish project highlights on School’s websites. Collaborate with the European Institute of Cultural Routes through the Phoenician Route representatives. Generate a new OER for implementing other school projects similar to our Paths of Europe initiative. Implement Bilingualism skills in every aspect of school community and, above all, in school curricula. Two steering project meetings. RESULTS Changes in our surrounding areas and improve access for outdoor activities. We created an Active Tourism Trade Fair in april 2017. (We included some contents about social inclusion in our VET courses in accordance with the project’s impact on teacher training and students’ involvement). We created publicity videos, advertising leaflets and brochures for Active Tourism in designated routes or paths. Symbaloo Lesson Plan Our most significant item has been a Totem (Signpost) to be built for each of the partner schools. IMPACT: We designed this project with the idea providing impact potential for all activities and procedures. As a result we reached an impact of 100% (3600 students out of 3600) and involved the whole school community within the four partner schools at some time throughout the project lifecycle. The deepest and most direct kind of impact has been achieved among those students who took part in mobilities but the project involved the whole community in activities: massive dissemination acts; selection procedures, surveys, publicity, working meetings, CLIL lessons, exhibitions and school trips, administrative procedures, organizational changes