The role and function of a teacher in the modern educational systems is suffering a crisis. The upbringing, educating function of school is diminishing, revealing the shortcomings of its organization, didactic processes, but also the shortcomings of a teacher as an individual (OECD, Education 2030). Primary education shapes views and attitudes of students, that will pay off in the future. The quality of education is linked to teaching standards, which are related to the demands placed upon teachers, the training they receive, the roles they are asked to fill and the resources that are made available for them to carry out their tasks. Therefore consortium proposes a holistic approach, introducing storytelling into teaching and learning practice, through comprehensive TELLaSTORY Program for schools, engaging whole school environment, including teachers educators. Project aim is to create conditions, by August 2023, for implementation of the comprehensive TELLaSTORY Program for primary schools, based on the Story Seekers® method, incorporating storytelling into teaching and learning practice, in order to make both teaching and learning more competence-oriented, attractive and effective. Specific goals: 1. Define potential for systemic implementation of TELLaSTORY Program in primary schools 2. Increase capacity of partner organizations through development of comprehensive TELLaSTORY Train the Trainer scheme and preparation of 16 teachers educators for the role of ambassadors of the method, 3. Support 45 teachers in continuous professional development, through offering them TELLaSTORY trainings and work-based learning, supporting materials and tools (TELLaSTORY Toolkit) 4. Reinforce teachers in delivery of competence-based teaching and promoting creative and innovative learning through elaboration of scenarios of lessons and delivery of TELLaSTORY workshops for school kids, with use of game-based learning. 5. Shape among students basic social skills like verbal communication, collaboration, empathy, self-presentation skills and learning to learn competence, 6. Create conditions for widespread dissemination and introducing ICT to the TELLaSTORY Program through creation of the TELLaSTORY Crowd sourcing portal and TELLaSTORY Network of teachers etc. Innovation of the project is reflected in: - the consistent and whole-school approach to teaching storytelling, involving cascaded system of training starting from teacher trainers, through teachers and students - applied methods: Mike Bosworth’s Story Seekers® method and Trust Model, competence-based learning, game based teaching and learning, ICT in teaching, crowd sourcing and networking of teachers and teacher trainers. These methods were combined to form the whole-school TELLaSTORY Program for implementation of storytelling in primary schools. The following target groups will be involved directly: 1. Project partners staff, incl.teacher trainers – 16 persons 2. Teachers at primary school level and principals - 45 3. school kids in primary schools - 72 4. schools – as an institution will be the target group for implementation the TELLaSTORY Program 5. key actors - teacher educators, teachers, principals, education policy makers, school education authorities (multiplier events and conference) – 195 During the project partners will create a TELLaSTORY brand, defining various project’s outputs. Project envisages: 1. Investigate perspectives of implementation of the storytelling as a teaching and learning method (IO1) 2. TELLaSTORY toolkit for teachers (Handbook, scenarios of lessons applying storytelling, podcasts, story board card game)-IO2 3. Elaborate and pilot TELLaSTORY scenarios of school workshops for kids – IO3 4.Elaborate and pilot TELLaSTORY Train the Trainer Scheme, including Train the trainer program for teacher trainers and program of trainings for teaches. 5. TELLaSTORY crowdsourcing portal and network of teachers Activities have been arranged in 7 work packages (WPs), out of which WP1-WP5 are related to intellectual outputs and WP6 (dissemination), WP7 (management) are horizontal activities implemented throughout the project. The partnership is formed by the mix of public and private organizations related to education. The project will have impact on teachers, who will develop competences and be able build more open and creative environment for learning based on trust and empathy, teacher trainers who will form a network of experts in teaching storytelling and students developing emotional intelligence through learning. Headmasters and policymakers will be a target of raising awareness campaign and lobby to enable further introduction of storytelling to the core curriculum. The project has potential for transferability in terms of geographic scope, school levels and sectors. It brings business practices to school education. It seeks to reduce the gap of commences between school edu in Central Europe and more advanced Western EU courntries.
Project aim: To create conditions for the implementation of the comprehensive TELLaSTORY Program for primary schools, based on the Story Seekers® method, that incorporates storytelling into teaching and learning practice, in order to make both teaching and learning more competence-oriented, attractive, and effective. Specific goals: Define the potential for systemic implementation of TELLaSTORY Program 2. Increase capacity of partner organizations through the development of comprehensive TELLaSTORY training programs and certification models. 3. Supporting 45 teachers in continuous professional development, by offering them training, work-based learning, supporting materials (TELLaSTORY Toolkit) to develop innovative, diverse and competence-oriented teaching with Story Seekers® method. 4. Reinforcing teachers in the delivery of competence-based teaching and promoting creative and innovative learning through elaboration of scenarios of lessons and delivery of TELLaSTORY workshops for school kids, with use of game-based learning. 5. Shape basic social skills incl collaboration, empathy, self-presentation skills and learning to learn competence among students 6. To create conditions for introducing ICT to the TELLaSTORY Program
The TELLaSTORY project is rooted in problems, which proven to be common in partner countries. The needs that we wanted to address with our project are: - professional development that is content-focused, incorporating active learning, supports collaboration, provides coaching and expert support, offers feedback and reflection and sustainability. - More flexibility in the organization of pedagogical work is needed to help teachers succeed - stimulation of innovation in teaching through peer learning and mutual stimulation of changes - integrating new methods and meaningful assessment, building new ways of relating students. - The shift to competency-based learning where instructions, assessment and grading is based on demonstrating knowledge and skills and assessing learning outcomes rather than content. - lack of Interactive, supportive relationships that help learners to progress towards their goals - Students need a broad range of skills including critical and creative thinking, social skills like empathy and collaboration to find themselves in modern societies - the shift of the focus of our students from "more hours for learning" to "quality learning time"