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Azores ProEurope

2019-1-PT01-KA101-0605162019School education staff mobilityfinalized
Countries: PT · Grant: €16,508
Early School Leaving / combating failure in educationICT - new technologies - digital competencesPedagogy and didactics

Objectives

The ultimate goal of our project was to increase the academic success of our students through increased support and guidance and the implementation of new, learner-centered, more motivating teaching methodologies in and out of the classroom and with greater use of ICT. Through opportunities to participate in structured courses, it was intended to: -create new training opportunities for educational agents; -encourage lifelong learning and the enhancement of professional careers; -promote the professional development of teachers with a view to improving the quality of teaching and the motivation of students; -increasing the motivation, job satisfaction and personal well-being of educational agents by participating in professional development and cooperation projects; -to improve the language skills of the participants; -Increasing the network of contacts, with other educational agents and other institutions, to establish partnerships for the creation of new European projects in the future; -Increasing the internationalization of the school, implementing the respective Internationalization Plan, defined in the School Educational Project and to which this project also contributes; -Increase the European dimension, awareness and European citizenship; -To broaden the knowledge of educational agents about other cultural and educational realities; -To know methodologies for the implementation of teaching-learning activities outside the classroom, with a more active intervention of students and that value the surrounding environment; -To know methodologies for teaching English and French languages that are more communicative, with greater use of ICT, and that better promote learning in heterogeneous classes and student motivation; -To promote students' creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaborative spirit; -To know strategies and methodologies in the teaching of physical and natural sciences that enhance academic success and increase the students' interest in science, scientific research and careers in exact sciences and engineering; -To know innovative methodologies in teaching mathematics and in guiding and assessing students in this subject; -To know task-based, inquiry-based, topic-based and project-based teaching methodologies; -To know new methods, tools and coaching techniques that help in problem and conflict management and resolution, personal and professional guidance and motivation; -To improve the teachers' digital skills.

Background

The school decided to continue the KA1 projects of the Erasmus+ program, this being already the third consecutive project of this nature in the school. Participation in Erasmus+ projects is already part of the school culture and it is considered relevant to have projects in the different key actions of the program as KA101, KA201 and KA229, and now in Accreditation, to reach the different target audiences. In the School Educational Project it is foreseen the promotion of its internationalization from the dynamization of this type of projects.

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