The School Exchange Partnership called "Three voices" was established on the basis of a joint decision of the participating schools to cooperate on the development of vocational education and training through the application of non-traditional teaching methods and technological procedures in graphic, photographic, spatial, product, advertising, industrial and clothing design. The project will involve pupils from three secondary vocational schools of artistic focus from Žilina, Jihlava and Zakopane. The above-mentioned secondary schools educate pupils between the ages of 15 and 19. The duration of the project is from 01/09-2019 to 08/31/2021. The main objective of the project is to link the vocational education of artistic focus with practical activities, to implement non-traditional art techniques in the educational process and to exchange good practice between partner schools. The added value of the school exchange partnership is the development of information and communication technologies, pupils' knowledge and practical vocational skills. Project participants will get the necessary information about the working environment, work tools, techniques, work practices and practical activities in the field of visual arts and design. Partial objectives of the project: a) to present the pupils' professional knowledge, skills and competences in the chosen fields of study of the artistic specialization, b) to help young people after entering the European labor market, c) implement selected ECVET tools into the educational process, d) to compare the history, art and cultural development, the system of education and training in the field of Czech-Slovak-Polish cooperation, e) to use English, Slovak, Czech and Polish language in new environment, f) to create relevant information outputs from project activity, g) to increase the professional qualifications of the involved vocational educators and consequently to use the newly acquired knowledge and skills in vocational education and training, h) to disseminate best practice in vocational training between partner schools. The project covers the following target groups: 6 teaching staff and 24 pupils from each school (72 pupils in total). During the project implementation, three workshops will be held, thematically focused on - screen printing (Jihlava), graphics and photography (Žilina), drawing and painting (Zakopane). The topic of teamwork of pupils will be chosen to capture the most significant manifestation of the geographical location in which the secondary school is located. During the workshops, accompanying events will be organized - joint language preparation of English, Czech, Slovak and Polish, cultural and social activities. Each Czech-Slovak-Polish meeting will be completed by a joint exhibition and opening, where work will be presented to other teachers, students and the general public. During the project meetings, the teaching staff will be familiar with the techniques chosen to create a description of ECVET learning units. Based on these materials, students will be assessed at the last meeting. Pupils at partner schools will use collaborative collaboration and communication techniques through eTwinning, with which schools have practical experience. The project will include ongoing communication of school teams on a jointly created website. The output of the project will be three expert methodological manuals on technological work procedures and a comic book magazine for participants in workshops in partner schools, which will map vocational education and training and leisure activities. The planned output is an information bulletin on the project and an English-Czech-Slovak-Polish vocabulary dictionary of art and design. During the workshops, each participant will be provided with a tablet to document his/ her work on the assigned tasks. A joint video film will be created from the created student footage. All activities will be published on the project's common website and on the promotional DVD. The acquired experience and working contacts will be a lasting benefit for each of the project activity participants. Pupils acquire new knowledge, skills and competences of 10 days in a partner school based on the description of ECVET learning units. Before each mobility a so-called. virtual mobility, which will be a new platform for electronic communication between selected pupils who will get to know each other's work on the chosen art technique. The school exchange partnership will contribute to the innovation of vocational education and training and to the streamlining of vocational subjects in partner schools.
The School Exchange Partnership called "Three voices" was established on the basis of a joint decision of the participating schools to cooperate on the development of vocational education and training through the application of non-traditional teaching methods and technological procedures in graphic, photographic, spatial, product, advertising, industrial and clothing design. The project involved pupils from three secondary vocational schools of artistic focus from Žilina, Jihlava and Zakopane. The above-mentioned secondary schools educate pupils between the ages of 15 and 19. The implementation of the project was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, personnel changes, the war in Ukraine and the financial crisis. The duration of the project was from 01/09-2019 to 31/08/2022. The main objective of the project was to link the vocational education of artistic focus with practical activities, to implement non-traditional art techniques in the educational process and to exchange good practice among partner schools. The added value of the school exchange partnership was the development of information and communication technologies, pupils' knowledge and practical vocational skills. The project participants received the necessary information about the working environment, work tools, techniques, work practices and practical activities in the field of visual arts and design. The purpose of the project was fulfilled. Partial objectives of the project: a) to present the pupils' professional knowledge, skills and competences in the chosen fields of study of the artistic specialization, b) to help young people after entering the European labour market, c) to implement selected ECVET tools into the educational process, d) to compare the history, art and cultural development, the system of education and training in the field of Czech-Slovak-Polish cooperation, e) to use English, Slovak, Czech and Polish language in new environment, f) to create relevant information outputs from project activity, g) to increase the professional qualifications of the involved vocational educators and consequently to use the newly acquired knowledge and skills in vocational education and training, h) to disseminate best practice in vocational training among partner schools. The objectives of the project were met. The project covered the following target groups: 6 members of teaching staff and 24 pupils from each school (72 pupils in total). During the project implementation, three workshops were held, thematically focused on graphics and photography (Žilina, virtual, March 2022), screen printing (Jihlava, in person, April 2022), drawing and painting (Zakopane, in person, June 2022). The topic of teamwork of pupils was chosen to capture the most significant manifestation of the geographical location in which the secondary school is located. During the workshops, accompanying events were organized - joint language preparation of English, Czech, Slovak and Polish, cultural and social activities. Each Czech-Slovak-Polish meeting was completed by a joint exhibition and opening, where their work was presented to other teachers, students and the general public. During the project meetings, the teaching staff was familiar with chosen techniques to create the description of evaluation learning units. Based on these materials, students were assessed at the last meeting. Pupils at partner schools used collaborative collaboration and communication techniques through Google Meet, with which schools had practical experience. The project included ongoing communication of school teams on a jointly created website. The output of the project were three expert methodological manuals on technological work procedures and a comic book magazine of participants in workshops in partner schools, which mapped vocational education and training and leisure activities. The planned output was an information bulletin on the project and an English-Czech-Slovak-Polish dictionary of art and design. During the workshops, each participant worked with a tablet PC to document his/ her work on the assigned tasks. All activities were published on the project common website and on the promotional DVD. The acquired experience and working contacts were a lasting benefit for each of the project activity participants. Pupils acquired new knowledge, skills and competences during 10 days in a partner school based on the description of ECVET learning units. Before each mobility there was an online meeting, which was a new platform for electronic communication among selected pupils who familiarized themselves with the outputs of the work from the chosen art technique. The school exchange partnership contributed to the innovation of vocational education and training and to the streamlining of vocational subjects in partner schools.