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21st Century Teaching - competence-based education skills and creativity/Using Mobile Devices as Educational Tools

2020-1-BG01-KA101-0783672020School education staff mobilityfinalized
Countries: BG · Grant: €14,115
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesTeaching and learning of foreign languages

Objectives

Higher results and more interest in the English classes.Improving communication skills, new and creative methods of teaching English at all levels of education. Using tablets and smartphones as educational devices, due to students' interest in technology, teaching gives much better results. Students traditionally participate actively in attractive activities related to new educational platforms. Numerous lessons related to the project topics have been given. Dublin the great city, Peaceful solutions of conflicts, Art, Good and bad as moral cathegories, artists, music and culture of Ireland, the mythical leprechauns An open lesson "The Еmerald island, leprechauns and St. Patrick" Preparation of visual materials on the topics of Ireland, St. Patrick and the leprechauns. Third graders prepared themed collages, cards and drawings. The materials were prepared and published on the school's Facebook page in the days of Ireland and St. Patrick, Christmas in Ireland, etc. Building lessons on the principle of creativity, using technology in teaching. Practice of the mastered methods and techniques in the English language classes. Preparation of numerous presentations related to the above topics. Using the platforms Edmodo, Nearpod, Worldwall and many others. Presentation of the platforms to the colleagues from Sofia University Vasil Kanchov, for distribution. Presentation of the method of the Six Hats by Edouard de Bono and the inverted classroom in a meeting on another project, among foreign teachers. Incorporate soft skills, in terms of emotional intelligence, in order to achieve better results in teaching English as a foreign language. Sharing good practices and motivation of younger and inexperienced colleagues to continue teaching, as the lack of English teachers seems to be a big problem in our region.

Background

Since the changing situation among the new generations, we needed new methods and developed technology to enhance their willingness to take part in class. We were forced to come up with something different and something new to attract our students and make them work in our classes. The aim of the project is to learn new teaching techniques and creativity in the 21st century. The use of mobile devices as educational. For all English language teachers at Vasil Kanchov, English is not the first specialty, all have studied part-time, some are newly appointed, with no previous experience as language teachers. When writing the project, colleagues share the lack of good enough, modern and creative methods of teaching English. Their training was based on self-preparation and taking exams, without practice, there was no conferencing of lessons by teachers and teaching practice in schools. Teachers relied more on traditional teaching methods due to their inexperience and lack of practice in a real environment.

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