The project "Explore the World - Inspire Yourself" is participated by four partner schools from Poland, Norway, Greece and Italy. The main objectives of the projects are: prevention of early school leaving and playing truancy, improvement of key competences (communication in mother and foreign languages, civic competences and entrepreneurship, ICT skills) and facing underachievement in science, maths and English. The target group of the project includes students aged 11-16 who have a high rate of absences at school, problems with science, maths and whose key competences require improvement. About 3000 people will be involved (directly and indirectly) and thanks to the dissemination of the results and activities even more people will benefit from the project. Partner schools will hold extra classes and activities in home countries working on choosen topics and developing students' skills. We plan four transnational meetings for students and 2 workshops for teachers concerning the innovative methods of teaching. English will be communication language. During the mobilities students will stay at host families and will challenge and improve the skills and knowledge acquired at extra classes. Project activities will be conducted with innovative and activating methods like Oxford Debate and questing and based on workshops, group work, individual work, discussions, learning by doing, experiments, laboratory and outdoor classes and lectures. The project combines secondary education with higher levels encouraging students to continue their education. School from Poland will be supported by Jagiellonian University and students will take part in lecture and workshops conducted by their staff. During transnational meeting students will meet European employers and interview them. Transnational meetings challenge students' knowledge and skills and make them more motivated to work since those type of activities appeals to them and make them feel responsible for the given tasks. Within 2 years we planned to focus on topics with international student`s exchanges: 1. Human rights-exploring the world with questing method,Italy - planned activities is to raise students' awarness cbout the fact that the free public education should be perceived by them as a privilege not as an obligation. We believe that we will be able to change their point of view and to increase their motivation to study. 2. A sound mind in a sound body -healthy lifestyle, Greece - participants will gain a treasure of experience and methods to proceed a healthy lifestyle even at home. Moreover, during those activities we will use maths and science to combine subjects that are difficult for our students with practical and entertaining activities. Those acitivities will boost students motivation to attend school and take up various extra activities and courses. During the international exchange we want involved students to take part in activities that refers not only to school knowledge but also to real life.The main goal of activities mentioned above is to reflect on and develop attitudes and skills to improve their consumption habits 3. Science around us, Poland - lab classes at university, doing experiments, outdoor activities with questing, ICT tools in practice, improving solve-problem thinking, scanning and searching for information 4. ICT skills as key competences in my future career, Norway - The organized workshops aims will develop students' ICT skills and increase students' awareness concerning their future job career. On the basis of inventors` biographies the students will notice the great impact of their competences and skills on their future. There will be multiple results and products. The most important ones will be: - Multimedia presentations about famous inventors and discoverers, partner countries, their region and schools - internationale Oxford style debates and international questing - Project’s website with all results - the ability to use the ICT tools - the improvement of school results in maths, science and English and of reading comprehension, writing, logical thinking, creativity, ability to use given data/information - prevention of school leaving and playing truancy - the understanding of the importance of continuation of education, self-development and trainings - the enhancement of tolerance and awareness of diversity among people. The project participants are going to gain the unique experience in cross-cultural relations. They will eradicate their prejudices and stereotyped ways of thinking and learn about the geographical features of some European countries. The cooperation in our project will arouse our students‘ sense of European citizenship and it will make them understand and notice the necessity of sharing the knowledge and experience to increase our students’ awareness about other European countries.
The project "Explore the World - Inspire Yourself" was participated by four partner schools from Poland, Norway, Greece and Italy. The main objectives of the projects were: prevention of early school leaving and playing truancy, improvement of key competences (communication in mother and foreign languages, civic competences and entrepreneurship, ICT skills) and facing underachievement in science, Maths and English. The target group of the project included students aged 11-16 who had a high rate of absences at school, problems with science, maths and whose key competences require improvement. About 3000 people were involved (directly and indirectly) and thanks to the dissemination of the results and activities even more people benefited from the project. Partner schools held extra classes and activities in home countries working on chosen topics and developed students' skills. We had planned four transnational meetings for students and 2 workshops for teachers concerning the innovative methods of teaching. However, due to the force majeure we were able to organized 3 students’ exchanges and 1 teachers’ meeting at the very beginning of the project. The communication language at every stage of the project was English. During the mobilities students were staying at host families where they challenged and improved the skills and knowledge acquired at extra classes. Project activities were conducted with innovative and activating methods like Oxford Debate and Questing and based on workshops, group work, individual work, discussions, learning by doing, experiments, laboratory and outdoor classes and lectures. The project combined secondary education with higher levels and encouraged students to continue their education. School from Poland was supported by Jagiellonian University and students took part in lecture and workshops conducted by its staff. During transnational meeting students met European employers and interviewed them. Transnational meetings challenged students' knowledge and skills and made them more motivated to work since those type of activities appeals to them and make them feel responsible for the given tasks. Within 2 years we focused on following topics with international student`s exchanges: 1. Human rights-exploring the world with questing method, Italy – the activities like the international debate about Human Rights raised students' awareness change students’ attitude towards the education. They started to perceive it as their chance – not as their duty. Thus, they became more motivated to study. 2. Science around us, Poland – during the exchange the participant visited the Jagiellonian University where they took part in the lecture concerning nanotechnology and lab classes where they did some experiments. Their visit in the Science Garden in Krakow allowed the notice the physical laws that are present in every day life. Additionally, they explored the nearest town – Tarnów with the Quest: The Postcard form Tarnów. The fact that they searched for information in interesting for them way made this activity as a one of most interesting during the exchange. The meeting was finished with the Kahoot quiz that developed their ICT skills. 3. ICT skills as key competences in my future career, Norway - The organized workshops developed students' ICT skills and increased students' awareness concerning their future job career. On the basis of inventors` biographies the students noticed the great impact of their competences and skills on their future. There were multiple results and products. The most important ones were: - Multimedia presentations about famous inventors and discoverers, partner countries, their region and schools - international Oxford style debates and international questing - Project’s website with all results - the ability to use the ICT tools - the improvement of school results in maths, science and English and of reading comprehension, writing, logical thinking, creativity, ability to use given data/information - prevention of school leaving and playing truancy - the understanding of the importance of continuation of education, self-development and trainings - the enhancement of tolerance and awareness of diversity among people. The project participants acquired the unique experience in cross-cultural relations. They eradicated their prejudices and stereotyped ways of thinking and learned about the geographical features of some European countries. The cooperation in our project arouse our students‘ sense of European citizenship and it made them understand and notice the necessity of sharing the knowledge and experience to increase their awareness about other European countries.