Our project “My passion – my future” aims to satisfy the need to develop children's interests, it supports and directs pupils' activities in order to fully use their skills and potential. The project is based on the students' IT interests and we would like to guide them in a way that will enable the pupils to reach educational goals. Our objective is also to improve the quality of English language teaching by applying new technologies and introducing innovative teaching techniques. We would like to develop our students' communicative skills and increase their motivation. Students and teachers from four schools (Poland, Spain, Greece and Croatia) are going to participate in the project. Project tasks will be realised mainly during extra-curricular activities by students who are willing to work on them and would like to develop their interests. Every school will choose two groups of 15 students (Erasmus+ clubs) and one group of ten teachers. Each club will follow a collectively developed programme, the teachers will use the CLIL method and apply modern technologies in their lessons. The clubs will cooperate internationally, the teachers are going to meet twice a month in order to discuss the project and to improve their own language skills. The main aim of the project: * to create an opportunity for 120 students aged 9-12 from Poland, Spain, Greece and Croatia to develop their hobbies and passions, as well as to improve students and teachers' ability to communicate in English by participating in an international project. Detailed aims: * to improve the schools' reputation and teaching quality by teachers' vocational development and by exchanging educational experiences based on the project's tasks * to increase the students' motivation to learn English and to help them build their confidence in their language abilities * to create innovative educational materials for English language teaching * for both students and teachers to use modern information and communication technologies, including e-learning platforms to work and cooperate online Project activities will focus on developing students' hobbies and interests as well as on improving the teachers' qualifications. In order to achieve our goals we are going to conduct numerous local and international activities. During international workshops students will have the opportunity to attend classes with their peers from other countries, present their passions and interests, broaden their knowledge from various fields, as well as to develop their information and communication technology skills and improve their English. During the realization of the project we are going to use different methods, mostly activating and problem-seeking ones, combining learning with practice. We would like to use the method of subject based language teaching CLIL on a broad scale. To be sure our work will bring the expected results, it is important to use various types of work: working in small groups, doing problem-solving tasks stimulating creative and critical thinking, giving students the chance to choose the tasks and decide about the way of realizing them, organizing trips, contests, exhibitions. Expected results: The project aims to involve not only students and teachers but also parents. All of the participants are going to broaden their knowledge about the partner countries, their lifestyles, culture and methods of teaching. Both students’ and teachers’ language competence will improve, they will also become more skilful with modern information and communication technology. Students will be given a chance to develop their hobbies and interests, they will find out about other people’s pastimes and present their own passions to an international community. Thanks to communication technology, friendships developed during the project will have a chance to continue afterwards. Teachers will have the opportunity to express their views and ideas and exchange experience with their foreign colleagues, thanks to which they will open their minds to new methodologies. They will use the newly learned methods and forms in their work at home. Hopefully, the cooperation will continue after the project and will result in new ideas and events. The final products (i.e. lesson plans, worksheets, teaching aids, presentations, leaflets, glossaries, videos) will be used as means of promoting the schools and their regions. They will be available on the Internet to the teachers interested in them.
Our project “My passion – my future” was a response to the students' need to develop their interests, it supported them and directed the pupils' activities so that the children could fully use their skills and potential. The teachers tried to make educational use of the students' interest in ICT and to direct it appropriately. The educators also worked on improving the quality of English language teaching by applying new technologies and introducing innovative teaching techniques. The students and teachers from four schools (Poland, Spain, Greece and Croatia) participated in the project. The main aim of the project was to create an opportunity for 120 students aged 9-12 from Poland, Spain, Greece and Croatia to develop their hobbies and passions, as well as to improve the students and teachers' ability to communicate in English by participating in an international project which took place between 1st October 2017 and 30th September 2019. The specific objectives were: * to improve the schools' reputation and teaching quality by teachers' vocational development and by exchanging educational experiences based on the project's tasks * to increase the students' motivation to learn English and to help them build their confidence in their language abilities * to create innovative educational materials for English language teaching * for both students and teachers to use modern information and communication technologies, including e-learning platforms to work and cooperate online. The project directly concerned a group of 120 students and 40 teachers. The project activities indirectly affected the whole community of the schools, as well as the parents and the local community. The aforementioned goals have been fully achieved through the project activities which focused on developing the students' interests and increasing the teachers' professional competence. In order to achieve those goals numerous local and international activities were conducted. All the partners worked on the tasks mainly during extra-curricular activities with the students who volunteered to be in the project and wanted to develop their interests. Each school selected two groups of 15 pupils (Erasmus+ clubs) and one group of 10 teachers. Each club followed a jointly prepared curriculum, during the classes the teachers tried to apply the CLIL method and use modern technologies. The clubs also cooperated with each other on the international level. The teachers had fortnightly meetings in order to regularly discuss the issues connected with the project as well as to improve their language skills. Four Learning/Teaching/Training Activities (for students and teachers) were held within the project, each of them included a week long stay in a partner country. During those meetings the students participated in classes with their peers from other countries, they had the opportunity to present their hobbies to an international audience, broaden their knowledge thanks to interesting workshops and classes, learn about new ICT opportunities and improve their language skills. The teachers participated in workshops and training courses. They discovered and explored new teaching methods by watching lessons conducted with the use of innovative methods, including CLIL. They also improved their language skills and learnt about modern ICT tools. Various methods were applied during the project, however, we mainly focused on activating, problem seeking methods that combined learning and doing. The CLIL method was used to the broadest possible extent. In order to provide the expected results we used a wide range of strategies, such as: working in small groups, doing problem solving tasks which stimulate creative and critical thinking, giving students the chance to choose the tasks and decide on how to fulfil them, organizing trips, contests, exhibitions. The participation in the project brought long-term benefits to the school, the teachers, the students and their families. Everyone broadened their knowledge about the participating countries, about culture differences and similarities. The teachers and students' ICT and language skills improved significantly. The students learnt new things with their peers from other European countries and developed their interests. Thanks to communication technology, the new friendships that started during the project can continue afterwards. The teachers exchanged experience, views and ideas, they discovered innovative technologies and methods, which they will further use in their teaching. They established cooperation, which will result in new projects in the future. The final products (i.e. lesson plans, worksheets, teaching aids, presentations, leaflets, glossaries, videos) will be used as means of promoting the schools and their regions and they will be available on the Internet to the teachers interested in them.