Sometimes teachers understand teaching just as transferring of the knowledge; there is a lack of teamwork skills, no connections between knowledge and real life, no alternatives, conflict between national curriculums and declared innovation ideas. Teaching is focused on the results of formal evaluation: grades, levels, etc. It does not meet contemporary needs as it does not develop competencies that today's children of primary age will need for creative solving problems and meeting future challenges. One more issue - understanding importance of diversity and possibility to use it as advantage in education. Theme based learning activities birn school closer to real life, increases motivatin and makes learning more realistic and joyfull All partner schools are interested in theme based education and are trying it in practice. There are succesfull episodes, but for developing working system, partners need more theoretical knowledge and practical skills. So the main idea of project is to increase understanding of theme based learning, to try it in practice and to shere results. It could be done through activities: * Organizing theme based learning periods, based on later mentioned themes in all partners' schools. * Observing of theme based (integrated) learning process at partner's school and assisting teachers. * Creating online toolboxes for themes "Human body", "Water", "Space" "Europe". * Sharing toolbox materials and observation impressions with local teachers and online Toolboxes will have not just materials for working with children, but olso "methodological" part where teaching methods, planing and evaluating possibilities, environment arangements and diversity issues will be described. We hope, that toolboxes for different themes will be important not just as instruments for working in class at the moment, but even as models how to make toolbox for any kind of theme based period. However, not only toolboxes, but also a changed attitude to education is important. Stereotypical understanding of school as an institution for the transfering knowledge should be changed. Sharing of experience and ideas, flexible thinking, communication and cooperation with the pupils, parents and with all teachers are important issues, which will be discussed and promoted during the project.
Understanding teaching just as transferring of the knowledge, lack of teamwork skills, no connections between knowledge and real life, no alternatives, conflict between national curriculums and declared innovation ideas were the challenges which partners' countries were meeting with. Project activities, sharing experience, observing teaching process and teaching environment was great possibility to find ways of solving these challenges. Project activities developed competencies that today's children of primary age will need for creative solving problems and meeting future challenges. Teachers found connections between formal evaluation and ways to evaluate individual progress and self - evaluation. The most important issue - understanding importance of diversity and possibility to use it as advantage in education. Theme based learning activities brought school closer to real life, increased motivatin and made learning more realistic and joyfull. All partner schools are interested in theme based education and are trying it in practice, but there was realy different level of experience in it. Sharing theoretical knowledge and practical skills iet partners to create succesfull episodes, and to begin developing theme based working system So the main idea of project was to increase understanding of theme based learning, to try it in practice and to shere results. It was done through activities: * Organizing theme based learning periods, based on later mentioned themes in all partners' schools. * Observing of theme based (integrated) learning process at partner's school and assisting teachers. * Creating online toolboxes for themes "Human body", "Water", "Space" "Europe". * Sharing toolbox materials and observation impressions with local teachers and online Created ant published Toolboxes are not just materials for working with children, but olso "methodological" part, where teaching methods, planing and evaluating possibilities, environment arangements and diversity issues are described. Toolboxes for different themes will be important not just as instruments for working in class at the moment, but even as models how to make toolbox for any kind of theme based period. However, not only toolboxes, but also a changed attitude to education is important. Stereotypical understanding of school as an institution for the transfering knowledge was changed. Sharing of experience and ideas, flexible thinking, communication and cooperation with the pupils, parents and with all teachers are important issues, whitch were discussed and promoted during the project.