Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
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names of the respective projects:
“Hermes” Economic College Is a European
School
by Carmen Climescu
Continuous changes in the Romanian education
would upset any teacher if they did not find a
shorter way to communicate with students – by
engaging in national and international projects as
attractive methods to capture their attention.
With this innovative eTwinning project we would
like to arise an awareness about how a healthy
society within all aspects can be formed in the
minds of today’s digital native teenagers and
encourage them to realize the visions they have
created in their future individual social and
professional lives. In that we would also like them
to aquire 21st century skills, practice their foreign
language skills, use ICT and 2.0 web tools, work in
a collaborative way, respect other cultures and
exchange cultural treasures of their own countries.
For me, the courses on the iTeach platform were a
gateway to a world of knowledge and collaboration
with wonderful teachers, eTwinning ambassadors of
Romania, and here I fondly remember them:
Daniela Bunea, Cristina Nicolăiță, Cornelia Melcu
and Gabriela Crișan. I had constant support, and
they answered all questions and had the courage to
participate in and conceive some of the first
eTwinning projects in Romania. With this I made
good scoring for my school in the contest for the
European School.
Our school community is involved in eTwinning
projects and the good cooperation is seen in the 3
Quality Labels received by my colleague Mihaela
Tetileanu. Working with partners in these projects
continued in Comenius, Grundtvig and Leonardo da
Vinci projects.
Teaching and assessment of modern and activeparticipative methods bring more involvement from
students and greater mobilization for doing their
tasks. The current education system still uses
traditional methods that “are cheaper and more
convenient”.
Solving this “problem” would mean solving other
issues related to this topic, while increasing
graduation rates obtained from national evaluation
or Baccalaureate.
Peer review is virtually unknown, but in this way
students can learn to be objective surpassing
sympathy barriers and evaluating colleagues
according to a scale.
This second photo's acronym stands for Singing
Integrates Nations and Generations. The topic
focuses on songs' integrational power on nations
and generations and searching for the links of their
uniting features.
Students do want a school with many different
projects, they would especially lik H H[