Equal opportunities for young Europeans is an important question if we want to build a strong Europe. Unfortunately it is not like that today and this project is initiated as a step towards it. With focus on creating more equal opportunities in the involved classrooms, with the help of digital support, we can support the transition towards the European goal. By sharing good practities and work with teachers knowledge and mind-set about using digital support, we want with this project create classrooms within the participant organizations, where barriers as language or special education needs, can be passed more easily. The digital knowledge and mind-set among the 20 teachers involved will be worked with through common teacher training activities in the participants organizations. Training activities with four focus themes that will be worked with through an arrangement with 4 steps; theoretical background, planning, implementation in classroom and evaluation. The four themes are 1. Using the the puils' digital tools in the classroom 2. Education with support of pictures, 3. Pupils' study techniques (with help of digital devices and media), 4. Feedback to students by digital devices. The themes are chosen out of the involved participants strengths and weaknesses, as well as they together cover 4 important part of the daily education in school ; preparation, lesson, home-work and formative judgement. Three short-term joint staff trainings events will be hold, where the 6 supervisors in the training activities have the opportunities to share good practice and develop the activities together. At one of the short-term joint staff trainings the involved principals will participate, due to an extra focus on the important of leadership, to make the digitalization transition possible, successful and sustainable. A seminar will also be hold together with represents from higher education, about what skills a teacher need to have today, to promote academic achievement with digital support. All three short-term joint staff training events will also include at least 3 classroom observations, where the participants will observe with support of an common observation sheet. The lesson will afterwards be summarized and discussed together with the teacher in charge, to create a discussion about how digital support is used now and how it could be used. Finally there will at every short-term joint staff training events be held two lessons, where the teachers giving the lesson in a foreign language, with support of pictures and digital tools as translate software. This to create a discussion about how language barriers can be passed, with digital support. The main goal of the project is to develop the knowledge and the mind-set among the involved teachers, by sharing good-practise and common training activities. This together with the outcome of seminar about what digital expectations we should have on teachers in this decade, will support the principals and the involved organizations in their digital transition and help them towards a more equal education.
This project's main goal was to exchange good practices and, in that way, develop the digital skills and understanding about digitalisation, among involved teachers and education leaders. In that way we could strengthen the profiles of the teachers involved and take steps towards a more equal European education. Activities have also been planned to challenge the view of education in a digital era. As well as sharing good practices on how digital tools can be used to develop our education and help us cross borders for students with special education needs and also for students with different native languages than the one of the countries they are living in. With this project we also aimed to develop further experiences about being part of an Erasmus+ project, especially having one partner that had never been involved in Erasmus+ projects and therefore this was their first time working in such a project as well as having an organization that had never been a coordinator before.
This project was established out of the digital inequality that involved partners and their experiences with European schools or the lack of thereof. To improve teachers’ knowledge and mind-set about using digital tools and support, we realized there was the need for more cooperation and development of teacher training activities. Training that would involve sharing of good practices, challenging discussions and practical parts. We also identified the need of developing the understanding among school leaders,of how important their leadership is in this transformation and that it consists of so much more than just buying tools. With an improved use of digital tools we saw the opportunities to involve and provide support to more students with special education needs, as well as students with linguistic barriers to overcome in the countries they migrated to. Another aspect that needed to be addressed was about the teachers gaining more international experiences and influence positively all the involved organisations, especially those with little experience on such cooperation projects.