We want to instil the environmental education into children minds by using right attitudes, merits and aims which a child can build up during growing up. It is better to start in early age because we can reach positive results more likely. It is really important to execute an transnational project to understand that behaviour of an individual influences the others. Children must realise that common steps which lead to protection of our nature, planet are inevitable in each country of the world. Everybody can contribute to saving of the environment, a child as well. In each kindergarten we teach the environmental education and we work on smaller school projects. Children are interested in the topic, teachers like working in this field. Because of this we want to cooperate with foreign countries, link up good practices of all kindergartens. All three kindergartens obtain a valuable material which enriches their teaching – a methodical guard A little antenna made up by the participating countries using outlines. So the children will profit from the project. Our project focuses on 2 topics – Waste and recycling, Trees and plants – with enriching these aims: - to have / improve knowledge about the environment, its problems and protection - to have / improve knowledge about the participating countries - to improve ICT skills and competences of teachers - to improve English of teachers - to support teachers in receiving new innovating approaches - to support teachers in working with different children groups in the class - tolerance of other cultures, acceptance of diversity - common work of target groups Results: - improving of the attitudes to the environment - knowledge about the participating countries - beautiful school yards - various competences of teachers and children - prestige of the kindergartens and teachers gained by working on transnational project Outputs: - trees and plants, ant house - methodical guard A little antenna – with outlines and photos - DVD – with photos, videos, presentations We plan to engage: - 250 children from 3 kindergartens in age of 3-7 within the frame of usual daily teaching and special activities as well; children with lack of opportunities and handicaps too. Our survey included an analysis FOCUS GROUPS by which we found out that children need to gain information about the environment, its protection and regional flora too, because they are its part. Many children have no clue about other countries. Participating on a transnational project would enrich their knowledge. This target group is the biggest, the project is focused on improving many competences of children in following fields – prosocial field, man and the world of work, man and nature. - 20 pedagogical employees - 5 non-pedagogical employees - 200 other participants engaged passively or actively We plan 3 transnational meetings – in each country one. The coordinator is responsible for good cooperation between partners and she checks up all the tasks. Kindergartens have different tasks and responsibilities. Communication will flow in English – in written form (emails) and orally (video conferences). A work team will be responsible for the management of the project in each kindergarten which consists of a manager, disseminator, administrative worker and assistant. The assistants will be responsible for evaluation of activities in each institution. He/She will report to the coordinator by using a form Activity report. The coordinator will evaluate the whole activity by gathering all the reports and then will provide feedback to the partners. Disseminator is responsible for dissemination of information about the project. The administrative workers are responsible for the accountancy and paper work. The managers are responsible for whole institution. We will work “step by step” according to the timetable: 1 inform employees, children, parents, public, School Council / Parent Association about the grant from Erasmus+ programme 2 establishing of a work team in each kindergarten 3 questionnaire at the beginning of the project 4 activities during the project 5 transnational meetings in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Estonia 6 questionnaire at the end of the project 7 outputs One of the most important mean of evaluation of the project aims is the questionnaire about the environment and participating countries. We will find out if the aims of the project were accomplished, the results of the questionnaire at the beginning and ending of the project will be compared. Erasmus+ Days held during transnational meetings and other activities with public will be evaluated by emojis “like / dislike” anonymously. We plan to continue in some activities after the project finishes.
We wanted to instil the environmental education into children minds by using right attitudes, merits and aims which a child can build up during growing up. It is better to start in early age because we could reach positive results more likely. It is really important to execute a transnational project to understand that behaviour of an individual influences the others. Children must realise that common steps which lead to protection of our nature, planet are inevitable in each country of the world. Everybody can contribute to saving of the environment, a child as well. Children were interested in the topic, teachers liked working in this field. Our project focused on 2 topics – Waste and recycling, Trees and plants – with enriching these aims: - to have / improve knowledge about the environment, its problems and protection - to have / improve knowledge about the participating countries - to improve ICT skills and competences of teachers - to improve English of teachers - to support teachers in receiving new innovating approaches - to support teachers in working with different children groups in the class - tolerance of other cultures, acceptance of diversity - common work of target groups Results: - improving of the attitudes to the environment - knowledge about the participating countries - beautiful school yards - various competences of teachers and children - prestige of the kindergartens and teachers gained by working on transnational project Outputs: - trees and plants, ant house - methodical guard A little antenna – with outlines and photos - DVD – with photos, videos, presentations We engaged: - 250 children from 3 kindergartens in age of 3-7 within the frame of usual daily teaching and special activities as well; children with lack of opportunities and handicaps too. Our survey included an analysis FOCUS GROUPS by which we found out that children needed to gain information about the environment, its protection and regional flora too, because they are its part. Many children had no clue about other countries. Participating on a transnational project enriched their knowledge. This target group was the biggest, the project was focused on improving many competences of children in following fields – prosocial field, man and the world of work, man and nature. - 30 pedagogical employees (10 more as planned) - 5 non-pedagogical employees - 200 other participants engaged passively or actively We planned 3 transnational meetings – in each country one. We could manage the first transnational meeting in Slovakia, the second in the Czech Republic and the third virtually. The coordinator was responsible for good cooperation between partners and she checked up all the tasks. Kindergartens had different tasks and responsibilities. Communication was in English – in written form (emails) and orally (video conferences). A work team was responsible for the management of the project in each kindergarten which consisted of a manager, disseminator, administrative worker and assistant. The assistants were responsible for evaluation of activities in each institution. He/She reported to the coordinator. The coordinator evaluated the whole activity by gathering all the information and then provided feedback to the partners. Disseminator was responsible for dissemination of information about the project. The administrative workers were responsible for the accountancy and paper work. The managers were responsible for whole institution. We worked “step by step” according to the timetable: 1 inform employees, children, parents, public, School Council / Parent Association about the grant from Erasmus+ programme 2 establishing of a work team in each kindergarten 3 questionnaire at the beginning of the project 4 activities during the project 5 transnational meetings in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Estonia 6 questionnaire at the end of the project 7 outputs One of the most important mean of evaluation of the project aims was the questionnaire about the environment and participating countries. We found out that the aims of the project were accomplished, the results of the questionnaire at the beginning and ending of the project were compared. Erasmus+ Days held during transnational meetings and other activities with public were evaluated by emojis “like / dislike” anonymously. We plan to continue in some activities after the project has finished.