training improved which will change the
way they learn.
Brief overview
Kiitos@21st Century Preschools is an
early second language learning (ESLL)
project, which aims to promote a High-
quality Early Childhood Education and
Care (ECEC), in Portugal and in other
European
Countries,
connecting
different
pedagogical
approaches to support children’s global
development, preparing and equipping
them for the 21st century challenges.
Fifty-seven people will be directly
involved in the project. These are highly
motivated children, Preschool, English
and Music teachers, parents, teacher
trainers and
researchers.
As for the project intellectual outputs
we will have:
This project focuses on the needs of 2
target groups: children in preschool
education, from a local School Cluster
in Ponte de Sor, Portugal, and the
preschool teachers and specialized
teachers (English, Music and Physical
Education) and school leaders.
Kiitos@21st Century
Handbook guidelines
Preschools
–
Development materials and resources
for 21st century preschools in English
Language Teaching
Given the wide range of approaches
currently existing across EU, the
partnership
between 4 higher
education organizations, from 4
different countries (Portugal,
Poland,
Italy and Turkey) will focus on the issue
of
curricular
quality
and
appropriateness, analyse and learn
from Member States good experiences,
in order to ensure the positive impact
on ECEC.
We aim this project to have a deep
impact on the educational community in
general. We envisage children will be
able to communicate in two languages,
learn and
develop cognitive and
non-cognitive skills, develop critical
thinking, creativity, problem solving,
communication, collaborative work and
emotional intelligence. Pre-service
teachers will also benefit with it
because they will have their initial
Development
of
materials
resources for Music Learning
Action
research
Scientific article
development
and
–
kiitos@21st
Century
Preschools
approach in Early Childhood Education
Program
This innovative methodology will be an
integrated approach which embraces
ESLL
(Early
Second
Language
Learning), CLIL, Music Learning and
21st Century Skills in preschool
education.
And in due course, the results of this
project will hopefully influence the
educational policy regarding early
second language learning in preschool
education, and support a changing in
policy.
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