The idea for the project is a result of the ongoing Erasmus+ school partnership between Zespół Szkół nr 49 and 5 other European schools. Both Polish and Italian schools decided to continuou the coopperation and exchange of students/knowledge/skills. Both schools agreed that this project should be dedicated to the youngest students, which means learners at the age of 8 to 10 and their teachers. The main topic of the project is being environmentally friendly, building awareness of global changes and promoting the ideas of sustainable development. The project is designed to young learners as future promoters of actions aiming in eco-friendliness in schools and local communities. The project will be conducted from 1 December 2020 to 30 November 2021. Background: Agenda 2030 includes areas which need sustainable development: providing the quality education and taking actions to prevent negative climate changes. Both schools decided that these two areas should be a core of the project. The problem of early school leaving is present in both countries and the responsibility of school communities is to keep students in the education system as long as it is possible. Our Erasmus+ project is a combination of activities offering education of the best quality in the students’ friendly environment, inviting to the cooperation learners, teachers, kids’ parents and local communities. . The second problem, the climate changes, is global and we think that every country should take actions to minimalise their negative effects. We think that young learners should be educated on what they can do induvidually or locally to improve the situation. Our project lets school childrean build eco-awareness, teaches responsibility for future generations and how to be sustainable in everyday life. Strategic goals: Our project aims to achieve three strategic goals: - to improve education and rise awareness on climate change and human and institutional capacity to impact reduction; - to increase European dimension and preserve European values within the school and local communities, considering sustainable development in the area of evironmental protection and climat changes; - to try to overcome the barriers and limitations in learning and teaching English language to young learners by promoting a comprehensive approach. and more specific goals: - to develop collaborative teaching and learning styles, - to implement a whole-school action as a collaborative working method, - to develop linguistic and other key competences by students and teachers, - to develop transversal skills by students and teachers - knowledge, skills, work habits, critical thinking, problem solving, openness to innovation, personal expression, perseverance, planning, self-discipline, adaptability, initiative and others; - to exploit the knowledge and experience gained in the previous projects. Methodology: In each school there will be teams working on various environmental issues: students will define the problem and will try to find a solutions. Next they will present their actions, ideas on the project TwinSpace. Each school will choose one local action promoting the sustainable development in the area of ecology (e.g. planting trees, collecting cans or batteries). Every second month there will be an online video conference between Polish and Italian students where kids will present their work results and progress. There are two 3-day learning visits of Italian students in Poland when learners will exchange ideas, learn to cooperate in international teams (workshops, exhibitions, games etc), practice English. The intended methods include: peer-observation among students and teachers, collaborative peer-group work, problem based and inquiry based learning, workshops, doing experiments, learning as a team, learning outside the classroom, “harnessing technology” for the learning process. There is also one visit of Polish teachers in Italian school, where they will observe lessons in young students classes, give short presentations about their school, conduct a lesson on importance of being ecologically aware, take part in discussion panels and brainstorming sessions with Italian teachers. Results, dissemination and impact Throughout the project life all outputs (students’ works) will be shared through different media: a dedicated project’s Facebook profile, TwinSpace, and other channels available locally. We will also use the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and produce e-books with project outputs. The schools will strengthen their profile as modern and dynamic organizations ready to implement new approaches to education and share their knowledge and experience in EU projects. Students and teachers will increase their key competences, increase their ability to work on a joint project between schools and work and learn in a team. All participants wil increase their understanding of cultural diversity and positive attitude towards projects and the EU.
The idea for the project was a result of another Erasmus+ school partnership in which Zespół Szkół no. 49 and IC Perri Pitagora were involved. Both Polish and Italian schools decided to continuou the coopperation and exchange of students/knowledge/skills. Both schools agreed that this project should be dedicated to the youngest students: learners at the age of 8 to 10 and their teachers. The main topics were: being environmentally friendly, building awareness of global changes and promoting the ideas of sustainable development. The project was designed to young learners as future promoters of actions aiming in eco-friendliness in schools and local communities. The project was conducted from 1 December 2020 to 30 June 2022. Background: Agenda 2030 includes goals which need sustainable development: providing the quality education and taking actions to prevent negative climate changes. Both schools decided that these goals were a core of the project. The problem of early school leaving is present in both countries and the responsibility of school communities is to keep students in the education system as long as possible. Our project was a combination of activities offering education of the best quality in the students’ friendly environment, inviting to the cooperation learners, teachers, parents and local communities. The second problem, the climate changes, is global and we think that every country should take actions to minimalise their negative effects. And that’s why we educated young learners on what they can do induvidually or locally to improve the situation. Our project let children build eco-awareness, taught responsibility for future generations and how to be sustainable in everyday life. Our project achieved three strategic goals: - to improve education and rise awareness on climate change and human and institutional capacity to impact reduction; - to increase European dimension and preserve European values within the school and local communities, considering sustainable development in the area of evironmental protection and climat changes; - to try to overcome the barriers and limitations in learning and teaching English language to young learners by promoting a comprehensive approach; more specific goals: - to develop collaborative teaching and learning styles, - to implement a whole-school action as a collaborative working method, - to develop linguistic and other key competences by students and teachers, - to develop transversal skills by students and teachers - knowledge, skills, work habits, critical thinking, problem solving, openness to innovation, personal expression, perseverance, planning, self-discipline, adaptability, initiative and others; - to exploit the knowledge and experience gained in the previous projects. Methodology: In each school there were teams working on environmental issues: students defined the problem, tried to find a solutions, presented their actions, ideas on the project TwinSpace. Each school chose some local actions promoting the sustainable development in the field of ecology (feeding animals, building beehotels, cleaning the neighbourhood). There were 4 online video conferences between students where kids presented their work results and progress. Because of Covid19 we couldn’t organise two twin 3-day learning visits of Italian students in Poland. Instead we organised one, complex 3-day online visit (a combined C2 and C3) where learners exchanged ideas, learnt to cooperate in national and international teams (workshops, exhibitions, games etc), practiced English. The intended methods included: peer-observation among students and teachers, collaborative peer-group work, problem based and inquiry based learning, workshops, doing experiments, learning as a team, learning outside the classroom, “harnessing technology” for the learning process. There was also one visit of Polish teachers in Italian school, where they observed lessons in young students classes, gave short presentations on their school, conducted lessons on importance of being ecologically aware and how to talk about environment during sessions with the speech therapist, took part in discussion panels and brainstorming sessions with Italian teachers and students. Results, dissemination and impact All outputs (participants' works) were shared through different media: project’s Facebook profile, TwinSpace (which became a form of ebooklet), Italian press. We used the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. The schools strengthened their profile as modern and dynamic organizations ready to implement new approaches to education and share their knowledge and experience in EU projects. Students and teachers increased their key competences, their ability to work on a joint project between schools and work and learn in a team. All participants increased their understanding of cultural diversity and positive attitude towards projects and the EU.