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Technological Approaches in Education

2021-1-LV01-KA122-SCH-0000140512021Short-term projects for mobility of learners and staff in school education finalized
Countries: LV · Grant: €21,220
Digital skills and competencesInformation and communication technologies (ICT)Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

Objectives

1. To acquire innovative applications in the field of Science (STEM), Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, to comprehend numerical field courses, to increase students' motivation and success. 2. To increase students’ knowledge in the field of Verbal communication and to improve foreign language knowledge, foster motivation and success rate by using Digital Storytelling. 3. Development of our teachers in aspects of Professional, cultural, social and language and Web 2.0 Tools

Background

Riga secondary school Nr.80 is a general secondary education institution, which implements 4 educational programs. One of the goals of our school is to improve the knowledge and skills of educators in the field of STEM and Web 2.0 tools in order to diversify and enrich the learning process, to make it more interesting and attractive for our students, fully involving them in the work of lessons, motivating them to think analytically and critically, analyze, make proposals, set goals and look for solutions, reasonably share their thoughts on the given topic with the teacher. Analyzing the results of the teachers' self-evaluation report and summarizing them, it was found that 79% of teachers lack adequate knowledge in the STEM field, while 78% of the surveyed teachers indicated that they would like to improve their knowledge in using WEB 2.0 tools in the teaching process. Based on the received results, it was decided to create a project and include in it such activities that would help students to improve their knowledge in the application of innovative methodologies in the STEM field, improve productive thinking, critical thinking in order to increase the success of students and expand their professional knowledge and skills.

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