Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------projects in the French language jointly sponsored
by the International Federation of French teachers
and by the French National Support Service Unit.
Chance of Success for Gifted Children in
Contemporary School
by Dorina Marin
In addition to the national and European Quality
Labels, teacher Marino with his students along with
their partners from the schools of Winchester (the
United Kingdom), Choszczno (Poland), Trappes
(France) and Porto (Portugal) have won the
European eTwinning Label thanks to the project
“Moi, toi, nous à lettres”. They have created an
epistolary e-book.
eTtwinning is a platform through which we are
interacting with other schools and we have the
opportunity to meet teachers who work hard and
who have children talented and outstanding results.
The eTwinning projects in which I participated this
school year, “Let's sing and dance” and “Encuentro
en Navidad”, both had an artistic side. I used
children's activities to illustrate my students’
talents, and I delighted my soul with unusual
manifestations of the students in the partner
schools. All the kids are beautiful and talented.
Sometimes I think they are more fortunate, as the
society offers other opportunities to its children. In
Romania such children participate in competitions,
festivals or other artistic manifestations. The results
are sometimes stunning, but what chance do these
children have to continue their artistic career?
Once again, the eTwinning experience played a
fundamental role in the teaching-learning process.
The students who have shared it have shown those
skills which cannot be very often highlighted during
the everyday school practice – instead, this
experience has helped them to find one of the
strength points in their learning process.
Being able to combine the contents of the school
subjects involved in a project by the means of ICT
is the most important aspect of modern teaching,
which looks for innovation more and more.
A nation that wants to thrive need to invest in
human beings and in its education to the extent
necessary for an activity as complex as the
transformation of people from a primarily biological
being into an inexhaustible creative force.
Because of our environment, heredity, history and
other influences that are manifested in the form of
behavioral dysfunctions, we have some
fundamental flaws. Influenced by family or any
earlier model, an individual can become a
"perfectionist" - the fear of delegation, with a
tendency to take even minor details and losing a lot
of time with projects instead of building effective
resources. Children raised in an environment where
they used to be cringing can become a working
adult and overly involved for fear of rejection.
Therefore it is vital to teach students the
importance of taking personal responsibility for
what they do with their time. You can do a lot of
really important things just when you remain quiet
and concentrated. They must understand that we
all need those moments, especially when involved
in creative work.
The environment in which children grow and
develop should help them improve, cultivate their
talents through extracurricular activities related to
their passion. Time has shown that often a huge
talent was wasted because it was not grown ever
since childhood, when an attentive parent can help
the child to do things that (s)he likes, encouraging
innate skills.
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