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Strengthening Students' Well-Being with Digital Tools

2021-1-LT01-KA220-SCH-0000343282021Cooperation partnerships in school educationongoing
Countries: LT|IT|TR|EL|PT|IS · Grant: €138,692
Digital skills and competencesPhysical and mental health, well-being

Objectives

We wanted to: to increase the level of competencies of school teachers in the field of teaching PE online; to pilot the creation of online courses that will use sports as the methodology for well-being; to direct and stimulate peer-learning and teaching process among students based on the methodology of well-being; to enhance mental-health education and enable students to become more familiar with the mind-body connection; Also, PE teachers in partner countries are not familiar with opportunities to teach PE online, so our main goal was to find ways and to create tools, for efficient PE teaching and mental health strengthening online.

Background

PE has been traditionally considered as a practical and ‘hands-on’ subject in schools, where close proximity and physical contact is common. Since covid19 pandemic, there has been a new approach on teaching onlice. However, PE remained a chalange. Theuse of ICT new technologies should be used to the area of safety and requires learners to be able to avoid health risks and threats to physical and psychological well-being while using digital technologies; protect themselves and others from possible dangers in digital environments; be aware of digital technologies for social well-being and social inclusion. The project foresees the use of ICT in PE education. All partners' students are supposed to approx have at least 60 min of physical activity every day in school. We draw on data from two surveys, one with parents (N = 4,624) and the other with teachers (N = 726), to provide an indication of the daily physical activity students engaged in during the period of homeschooling. An important finding from the teacher survey is that the degree to which schools prioritized physical education among the school subjects varied greatly between schools and teachers. The lack of sistem how to teach PE online suggested the aim of the project.

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