The main objectives of our project were: -acquiring communication skills in English for teaching and access to other sources of professional knowledge -adopting modern teaching approaches that are considered more effective than the traditional way of teaching -exchanging good teaching practices with other European teachers -strengthening their communication skills in real situations -learning the language by immersion in everyday cultural life -overcoming language difficulties as a major barrier to access to knowledge in a knowledge society and free movement throughout Europe -using elements from the daily cultural life of European countries - adopting effective classroom management strategies and new ways of lesson planning - defining and sharing good practices, providing guidance and triggering new future initiatives to be pursued in each school building -developing transversal and organizational skills such as problem solving and critical thinking and enhancing the ability to work as part of a team, develop ideas and so promote change. - motivating and enhancing the teachers’ skills in finding new ideas and suitable proposals and solutions through discussions and sharing. -making language learning more attractive
Educational systems from all around the world have a permanent interest to make a fulfilling and tangible learning. A successful way to do that is the integrated curriculum that fuses different subjects, experiences and real-life knowledge together. CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is emerging across Europe and in several countries CLIL has been incorporated into the national curricula from primary schools to universities. E.g, Mathematics is a problem for most of the students, so we have to make it more attractive, more meaningful for the children. Human learning takes place in a wide variety of situations and almost surely employs many different processes. A considerable attention is the way in which people can learn from procedures by examining worked-out examples and by solving problems – learning from examples and learning by doing-that is learning by solving problems. Our request for funding stemed from the need for effective and innovative methods to favor changes in education, enhance teacher competence and add active involvement of families and local/international networks in school life.