The particular moment, that all European countries are experiencing in tackling the health emergency, has set in motion energies and skills to guarantee students continuity of education through distance learning. A situation of this type requires adequate resources that allow you to cope with stress, anxiety, fears and difficulties related both to the management of work and everyday life and to digital skills. And it is in cases like these that attention is crucial not only to the quality of the products supplied, but also to the quality of the teacher-student educational relationship and, not least, of the family. Collaboration between schools, families and other local services becomes the key element for identifying training strategies aimed at establishing a path of organic and complete growth. It is therefore necessary to provide teachers, but also parents (as tutors of their children) tools and skills for the management of distance learning. The strong point and the establishment of a relationship with parents is identified in the School / Family relationship which allows them to share ideas related to continuity with them, starting a daily process of co-construction. Furthermore, socio-emotional education is recognized for its ability to obtain positive effects both on the emotional and cognitive level of students, an enhancement of mental well-being and the achievement of adequate personal and social goals. The project therefore intends to achieve the following results: • Define and analyze Good Practices 2020 in the context of educational continuity and distance learning, in the European context; • Consolidate the professional profile of teachers and the educational profile of parents for didactic continuity through training courses of socio-emotional skills; • Define tools for analyzing and evaluating the quality of distance teaching skills. • Improve the skills of teachers and parents in the management of online teaching. More specifically, this proposal intends to conduct a survey on innovative distance learning systems for: technology, approach and methodology; the aim is to identify good practices at European level. Through specific research tools, the activities adopted in particular during the health emergency and which have allowed the achievement of positive results both in terms of learning and strengthening the student / teacher and student / teacher / parents relationship will be identified. To ensure the adoption of an adequate teaching system, it is also proposed to implement an IT tool for assessing the continuity of teaching; you have the possibility, therefore, to conduct an accurate analysis about the feasibility of online lessons in the school and family context, in terms of teachers' skills and resources available at school and within the family (support devices for online teaching, space, availability of parents, etc...). In addition, it is proposed to define a toolkit to promote socio-emotional skills in the context of online teaching aimed at parents and teachers. It is a theoretical-practical tool capable of enhancing an awareness of their motivation skills in adults and, at the same time, providing useful information to support students' socio-emotional skills.
The main objectives that the project set at the time of implementation were: -To implement and transfer innovative practices to local, regional, national and European levels; -Modernize and strengthen education and training systems; -Supporting teachers in developing innovative teaching and assessment methods, in particular, to promote competence-oriented teaching and learning; -Strengthen collaboration among all stakeholders in the school sector, as well as families and other external stakeholders. In terms of Intellectual Outputs, the project proposal envisaged the implementation of: -Good Practices 2020 on educational continuity and Distance Learning, in Europe, through innovative practices, in terms of technology, approach and methodology. -A tool kit to promote Social and Emotional Learning (SEL- Social and Emotional Learning) at a distance of both adults (teachers and parents) and youth. It is a tool containing theoretical and operational worksheets, with practical directions for activities that encourage reflection and self-assessment. -An IT tool to support the evaluation of educational continuity and distance education. More specifically, this is an analysis, conducted by the school, to identify the best strategies that can be adopted in working with families. Through this output, it is intended to identify the feasibility of distance education and the resources available to put it into practice. - Consolidate the professional profile of teachers and the educational profile of parents for educational continuity through social-emotional skills training paths; - Define tools for analysis and evaluation of the quality of distance education skills. - Improve the skills of teachers and parents in the management of online teaching.
The project was developed at a time when students and families found themselves impacted by a historical event unprecedented in the current millennium, which led to a reevaluation of the importance of relationships within learning contexts, but also to valuing emotions and emotional well-being as a prerequisite for teaching effectiveness. The project aimed to explore this in more depth by using the main stakeholders of learning processes (teachers and families) as mediators also of the emotional processes underlying learning, especially in contexts where the relationship is compromised by distance. Thus, the project investigated the need to ensure "Educational Continuity" in school-family systems, offering concrete tools that would allow, on the one hand, a clear mapping of the consequences of distance and allow families and teachers to have at their disposal a "toolbox" to manage the consequences of distance but one that was usable and transferable to all educational contexts in which the relationship is compromised by elements that cannot be controlled.