The name of our project is FOCUS: Developing learning, life and interpersonal skills through a new FOrm-teaching CUrricula for Secondary students. There are 5 partner schools from Romania, Greece, Denmark and Poland. The direct beneficiaries are: 2000 students, age 14-18 who learn in the partner schools, their form teachers (to a total of 80 form teachers and school counselors) and also the management positions who will benefit from exchanges of good practices in educational management. Another 5200 indirect beneficiaries were identified through the dissemination and valorization activities held by the 5 partner schools. The main objective of our partnership is to develop a series of 30 lessons based on10 topics (3 lessons/topic) for the Guidance and Counseling classes. Thus, we have identified the following OBJECTIVES: 1 - Develop, test and implement innovative practices relating to: new curricula, teaching materials&tools and course on Guidance and Counseling for 2000 high school students of the partner schools; 2 - Strengthen teaching skills and professional development by attending Staff-Training courses, exchanging good practices, carry out peer learning activities and workshops, learning and teaching methodologies and pedagogical approaches, with a focus on guidance, counseling and coaching methods and tools, improving language skills and the use of ICT; 3 - Facilitate recognition and certification of skills and competences by using EU validation instruments; 4 - Promote cooperation between schools from 4 different countries in order to support strategic development and school internationalization through projects; 5 - Promote school success and combat early-school leaving; 6- Promote active European citizenship & social inclusion. Tasks are equally shared by all partners in producing the teaching materials and hosting one transnational meeting/Staff Training and one short-term exchange of pupils. All partners agreed on offering hosting in families for the students. Each partner will prepare the teaching materials for one topic/year. During the Short-term staff training, each partner will bring the teaching materials that they prepared and held one-day workshops to teach the other participants. Each topic will be taught in one day. Methods: peer-learning, project-based learning, ICT and CLIL based. Each partners school chose 2 topics (one for each year) to prepare the teaching materials and the 6 lessons, as follows: 1. Learning Styles and how to make the most of them - Colegiul Tehnic Ana Aslan, Romania 2. The Learning Process: Learn-Revise-Learn Again - Greece 3. Efficient Communication - Denmark 4. Bullying and Teamwork - Poland 5. Time and Money Management - Seminarul Teologic Ortodox, Romania 6. Manage and Cope with Emotions and Stress – Greece 7. Emotional Intelligence - Denmark 8. Present Hobby, Future Career? - Poland 9. Creativity and Problem Solving - Seminarul Teologic Ortodox, Romania 10. Making your life green - Colegiul Tehnic Ana Aslan, Romania All partner countries get to host one Short-term exchange for Pupils, all partners agreed on offering hosting in families for the students. All partners will feel that they contributed equally in terms of time and financial resources. Dissemination and exploitation of results are an ongoing part of our project throughout its lifetime: from the initial idea, during the project’s implementation and even after the project has ended. The project's end products are: - the Guidance and counseling course on Life, Learning and Communication Skills, called FOCUS comprising of the 30 lessons (3 lessons/topic) - the project website on the etwinning platform where all the materials, lessons etc will be available and free of charge - the Digital book to be distributed in our communities of teachers In terms of non-tangible results we expect: -overall improvement of school performance (marks, willingness to perform, improved truancy/dropout statistics) - Teachers will develop appropriate instructional strategies to help students achieve the curriculum expectations - Teachers will benefit from professional development - teachers will get familiar with new innovative teaching methods - the schools' public image in the local community will improve - Headmasters will work to support and encourage partnerships between the school and the broader community in order to facilitate the experiential learning opportunities that benefit students - the project will enable students to better customize their high school education and improve their prospects for success in school and in life - students motivation to learn and improve themselves continuously will increase -students will better manage their time, resources, and dealings with other people. - students will become more confident, more motivated, and more effective learners - students will learn how to identify and assess their own competencies.
The name of our project was FOCUS: Developing learning, life and interpersonal skills through a new FOrm-teaching CUrricula for Secondary students. There were 5 partner schools from Romania, Greece, Denmark and Poland. The direct beneficiaries were: 2000 students, age 14-18 who learnt in the partner schools, their form teachers (to a total of 80 form teachers and school counselors) and also the management positions who benefited from exchanges of good practices in educational management. Another 5200 indirect beneficiaries were identified through the dissemination and valorization activities held by the 5 partner schools. The main objective of our partnership was to develop a series of 30 lessons based on 10 topics (3 lessons/topic) to be implemented during the classes of Guidance and Counseling, Social Sciences, English throughout the two years. OBJECTIVES: 1 - Develop, test and implement innovative practices relating to: new curricula, teaching materials&tools and course on Guidance and Counseling for 2000 high school students in the partner schools; 2 - Strengthen teaching skills and professional development by attending Staff-Training courses, exchanging good practices, carry out peer learning activities and workshops, learning and teaching methodologies and pedagogical approaches, with a focus on guidance, counseling and coaching methods and tools, improving language skills and the use of ICT; 3 - Facilitate recognition and certification of skills and competences by using EU validation instruments; 4 - Promote cooperation between schools from 4 different European countries in order to support strategic development and school internationalization through projects; 5 - Promote school success and combat early-school leaving; 6- Promote active European citizenship & social inclusion. Tasks were equally shared by all partners in producing the teaching materials and hosting one transnational meeting/Staff Training and one short-term exchange of pupils. All partners agreed on offering hosting in families for the students. THE APPLIED METHODOLOGY was as following: Each partner prepared the materials for one topic/year. During the Short-term staff training, each partner brought the teaching materials that they prepared and held one-day workshops to teach the other participants. Each topic was taught in one day. Each day included an evaluation and a round up time in which participants reflected upon their teaching and methods and ways of improving them. The final form of the materials presented was drafted. Methods used: peer-learning, project-based learning and CLIL based. Each partners school chose 2 topics (one for each year) to prepare the teaching materials and the 6 lessons, as follows: 1. Learning Styles and how to make the most of them - Colegiul Tehnic Ana Aslan, Romania 2. The Learning Process: Learn-Revise-Learn Again - Greece 3. Efficient Communication - Denmark 4. Bullying and Teamwork - Poland 5. Time and Money Management - Seminarul Teologic Ortodox, Romania 6. Manage and Cope with Emotions and Stress – Greece 7. Emotional Intelligence - Denmark 8. Present Hobby, Future Career? - Poland 9. Creativity and Problem Solving - Seminarul Teologic Ortodox, Romania 10. Making your life green - Colegiul Tehnic Ana Aslan, Romania All partners felt that they contributed equally in terms of time and financial resources. Dissemination and exploitation of results were an ongoing part of our project throughout its lifetime: from the initial idea, during the project’s implementation and even after the project ended. END PRODUCTS: - the Guidance and counseling course on Life, Learning and Communication Skills, called FOCUS comprising of the 30 lessons (3 lessons/topic) - the project website on the etwinning platform (public Twinspace) where all the materials, lessons etc are available and free of charge - the Digital book (also distributed in our communities of teachers) Non-tangible results: - overall improvement of school performance (marks, willingness to perform, improved truancy/dropout statistics) - Teachers developed appropriate instructional strategies to help students achieve the curriculum expectations - Teachers benefited from professional development - teachers got familiar with new innovative teaching methods - the schools' public image in the local community improved - Headmasters worked to support and encourage partnerships between the school and the broader community - the project activities enabled students to better customize their high school education and improve their prospects for success in school and in life - students motivation to learn and improve themselves increased -students better managed their time, resources, relationships - students became more confident, more motivated, and more effective learners and learnt how to better identify their competencies.