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DIGITAL AGE, INNOVATIVE TEACHERS

2021-2-PL01-KA122-SCH-0000420452021Short-term projects for mobility of learners and staff in school education finalized
Countries: PL · Grant: €11,760
Digital skills and competencesDigital content, technologies and practices

Objectives

Firstly increasing teacher’s competence in robotics and educating our students as well-equipped individuals in this field.Secondly integration in the education curriculum of new acquired competences in the field Robotics and Coding aplications.The teachers participating the course use their new knowledge and skills not only in their lessons making them more interesting and engaging for the students but also teach the other teacher stuff to be more up-to-date with the technology, to keep up with their students and enrich this way the school's educational offer and contribute to the school's competitiveness.Thirdly,the awareness of our school teachers in the Robotics and Coding aplications will be raised by their colleagues -participators of the course.They will share and develop new ideas of motivation, new teaching methods, use of new communication and information technologies.Next,promoting Erasmus mobility, international cooperation, innovation, creativity, promoting non-formal and informal educational mobility as well as lifelong learning both, for teachers and students.Eventually, our school’s capacity to work internationally will improve and our teachers become more aware of the lifelong learning importance and necessity.

Background

Our technical college and vocational school with 52 full-time teachers and 11 part-time teachers,2 Vet projects and several Comenius/Erasmus projects in 2014-2022 with students as main target group.This time our teachers were to be the target group to benefit from the opportunities offered by Erasmus+.Teachers, according to Erasmus+ priorities,should have more digital knowledge and skills, to support their efforts to engage in digital transformation, to equip them with digital knowledge and skills to be mentors and guides for their students.The COVID-19 pandemic period and online teaching demonstrated vividly the importance of digital education, they highlighted the great potential of digital technologies in education and the need and necessity to develop digital skills among teachers.With the project we hoped for providing teachers with knowledge on Programming,Coding,Robotics,3D printing, as well as new teaching methods that foster an intercultural thinking, decision-making,collaboration, communication,encourage practical, successful teaching strategies to increase student motivation,to improve long-life learning,to improve teachers' education in all branches,thus the education.Game based teaching brings our school to next level

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