Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------thus facilitating learning and looking for a common
goal. At school level, in eTwinning projects, the
exchange of experiences is particularly important
because it allows the teacher to learn and share
methods of work, while the various partners can
also learn from each other, which leads to positive
work with their students.
platform comes to the community through the
school so that we can communicate, collaborate,
develop projects and share those same values,
contributing to the fact that each of us can feel part
of the learning community in Europe.
Carrying out successful eTwinning projects
conducted using collaborative work results - for the
teacher - in an advantageous experience, where in
addition to learning to live with differences, one
comes to better understand the strengths and the
weaknesses, not only their own, but also those of
others, developing a mutual respect and intellectual
growth, revealing it as an efficient tool in the
construction and sharing of knowledge.
On the other hand, there is the aspect of student
learning - these eTwinning projects have revealed
their even greater importance. Students involved in
this type of projects start to give their contributions
to the teacher (who is now more like a monitor or a
coach) by conducting, assessing and getting
involved with their unfolding, showing extensive
involvement and availability for the activities. At the
same time, goals are not achieved only by the
transmission of knowledge in the classroom
environment any longer.
Working in a group is not easy; it requires
discipline, tolerance, respect, among many other
requirements that the teacher will have to impose
themselves in order to maximize the best results of
that work. Collaborative work is when people bring
with them various ways of working and different
skills, each influenced by their culture and even by
their life story, but related, and they come together
with a common goal, leading the group to
experience togetherness, adding it to the whole
organized by the diverse experiences of each,
forming a cohesive group whose members are
efficient. We can therefore say that, with the
collaboration and interaction between peers, the
potential of each and every one of us is even
greater when we work as a team, looking for a
common result, as opposed to when we work alone.
In collaborative work, values such as "unity in
diversity" (motto of the European Union), respect,
cooperation, participation, involvement and
responsibility take a new direction. The eTwinning
For the student, as for the teacher, it is essential to
establish objectives to be achieved, and
collaborative work is essential to achieving these
goals, since reconciling individual talents of each
yields better individual and collective results.
I am privileged to be a member of the eTwinning
project "Schoolovision" since its beginning in 2009.
Everything that I just said about collaborative work
and its success was experienced in this project.
Over these five years of existence, eTwinning
project "Schoolovision" has had brilliant leadership its coordinators are Michael Purves from Scotland,
Katja Auffrett from France and Steffen Toppler from
Germany.
To them I express my personal gratitude for the
availability, accuracy, discipline, as well as the joy
and enthusiasm that won me over, and all the other
members. We have had, over these five years,
recognition of our collaborative work by several
organizations, and won many national and
international awards.
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