CONTEXT The aim of the project is to provide the necessary framework for teachers and students to work together, share ideas and good practices in European context and learn how to develop teaching abilities and methods to improve educational system. By providing different lessons based on IT and other sensitive subjects (Literature and religion) improving English language we intend to achieve a number of topic-related objectives as well as objectives related to the intercultural dialogue that the project presupposes: Therefore, the purpose of this project lies in two apparently different directions. From the one point of view, we intend students to be more involved in their own learning process by using their computer for studies. From another point of view, we wish them to experience what it means to belong to European community, to reveal them different ways of thinking, values and beliefs. The partnership includes 5 schools – IT, RO, PL, TR, LT. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the project we agree on: 1. Develop students learning process so that their results are much better (at least 40% of the target group will improve their learning skills) 2. Developing flexibility to European diversity and flexible thinking to designate the competences to permanently restructure gained experience, find out and discuss multiple solutions, and apply them to real or specific situations. At least 30% of students will improve these skills) 3. Ensuring tolerance to cultural and religious differences, but within mutual attitudes. 4. Acquaintance of complexity and sites between cultural and social classes, institutions, education systems, school rules and traditions, scientific aims, and between human beings despite of the language, nationalities, age, language or ethnicity. (at least 60% of students will broaden their knowledge of other countries identities) 5. Developing the communication English skills in speaking, listening reading and writing. 6. Emphasize the importance of European values from the perspectives of implementing educational policy based on aims and objectives (measured by analysis of research about students and teachers views towards European cultures) MAIN ACTIVITIES C1 – November 2019 - IT - Topic: Using IT to create modern lessons; Presentations of countries customs and traditions C2 - March 2020 - RO - Topic: Using IT tools to create online activities, quizzes; Mathematics C3 – June 2020 - LT - Topic: Using online tools to create E-books; Literature C4 - October 2020 - PL - Topic: Digital tools for Religious Studies – creative works using art C5 - April 2021 – TR - TEACHER TRAINING NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS 20 students (13 - 18 years old) from the 5 partners' schools selected from the target group of 250. Students come from very various environmental backgrounds and have a variety of ethnic and religious attitudes, making the project interesting. Students will be able to use ICT, English, mathematics skills at appropriate level in order to avoid some misunderstandings. METHODOLOGY The project involves 5 main stages: initiation (identification of needs and partners), planning (action plan, methodologies, and resources), implementation (organization of activities before, during and after the TLTA meetings), evaluation (throughout the entire project, in steps, but also at the end of the project), and finalization (reporting, elaboration of impact study, sustainability plan). A1. Project management: financial and risk management, communication and cooperation plans and strategies, monitoring and evaluation of the project results will be applied timely within the project. 1 TM will be organized at the end of the project. A2. Implementation of the activities: this stage includes the selection and training courses for the participants. A3. Each partner schools organize ICT courses which will be attended by students before the TLTA meeting. A4. Dissemination - this is a constant process that will be implemented within the project and involves both tangible and intangible results at local, regional, national and international level, using media, addressing both school and other institutions. A5. Tracking and sustainability: At each school level, a team of teachers who became skillful enough will share their experience and teach selected specialists/teachers how to implement the new methods during educational process. RESULTS AND IMPACT 1 e-book entitled "Smart School – Smart in Heart", 1 digital artwork entitled "Enjoy European Diversity!" with the new tools. A set of methodology how to design lesson sequences, educational stories, to make questionnaires.
CONTEXT The project's aim was to provide the necessary framework for teachers, and students to work together, share ideas and good practices in the European context; develop teaching abilities and methods; improve the educational system. Providing different lessons based on IT and other sensitive subjects (Literature and religion) in English was intended to achieve topic-related objectives for the intercultural dialogue that the project presupposed: Therefore, the purpose of this project included two apparently different directions. First: involve more students in planning their own learning process by using computers for studies. Second: encouraged them to experience belonging to the European community, revealing to them different ways of thinking, values, and beliefs. The partnership included 5 schools – IT, RO, PL, TR, and LT. Unfortunately, Romania left our project after the first TLTA meeting in Italy and the second in Romania. The reasons were as they declared: a new principal came who had a different attitude toward the project, Covid - 19 pandemic influenced the organization's duties to fulfill all the agreements and they denied to collaborate in the project implementation process. OBJECTIVES: 1. Developed students learning process so that their results would be much better (at least 40% of the target group improved their learning skills); 2. Developing flexibility to European diversity and flexible thinking to designate the competencies to permanently restructure gained experience, found out and discussed multiple solutions, and applied them to real or specific situations. (At least 30% of students improved their skills); 3. Developed tolerance to cultural and religious differences but within mutual attitudes; 4. Acquaintance of complexity and sites between cultural and social classes, institutions, education systems, school rules, traditions, scientific aims, and between human beings despite of language, nationalities, age, language, or ethnicity. (at least 60% of students broaden their knowledge of other countries' identities); 5. Developed communication competence in English skills; 6. Emphasized the importance of European values from the perspective of implementing educational policy based on aims and objectives (measured by analysis of research about students' and teachers' views towards European cultures providing evaluation forms and discussions at TLTA meetings); MAIN ACTIVITIES: C1 – December 2019 - IT - Topic: Using IT to create modern lessons; Presentations of countries' customs and traditions C2 - March 2020 - RO - Topic: Using IT tools to create online activities, quizzes; Mathematics (CANCELLED) C3 – June 2020 - LT - Topic: Using online tools to create E-books; Literature (CANCELLED) C4/C6 (physical/virtual)- April 2022 - PL - Topic: Topic: Using online tools to create E-books; Literature C5 - October 2021 - RO - Topic: Using IT tools to create online activities, quizzes; Mathematics C7 - May 2022 - LT - Topic: Digital tools for Religious Studies – creative works using art C5 - April 2021 – TR - TEACHER TRAINING (CANCELLED) NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS 20 students (13 - 18yr.) from the 5 partners' schools were selected from the target group of 250. Students came from various environmental backgrounds with various ethnic and religious attitudes, which made the project enjoyable. Students were able to use ICT, English, and mathematics skills at the appropriate levels in order to avoid some misunderstandings. METHODOLOGY The project involved 5 stages: initiation (identification of needs), planning (methodologies, resources), implementation (activities before, during, and after TLTA meetings), evaluation ( within the project, after TLTA meetings), finalization (reporting, elaboration of impact study, sustainability plan). A1. Project management: financial and risk management, communication and cooperation plans and strategies, monitoring and evaluation of the project results were applied timely within the project. 1 TM's was organized online. A2. Implementation of the activities: this stage included the participants' selection and training courses. A3. Each partner school organized ICT courses attended by students before the TLTA meeting. A4. Dissemination was a constant process implemented within the project and involved tangible and intangible results at the local, regional, national and international levels, using media, addressing both schools and other institutions. A5. Tracking and sustainability: At each school level, teachers who became skillful enough shared their experience and taught selected specialists/teachers how to implement the new methods during the educational process. RESULTS AND IMPACT 1 e-book/material entitled "Smart School – Smart in Heart" - a set of methodologies on how to design lesson sequences, and educational stories, to make questionnaires. 1 digital artwork entitled "Enjoy European Diversity!" with the new tools.