Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 105

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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“pedagogy should focus not on the yesterday’s child
development but on the tomorrow’s one”. I also
consider that to be more successful in their future
life my pupils need to have Collaborative Problem
Solving Skills as an example of complex but the
relevant 21st century skills. They also must possess
8 European Key Competences. The project has
given them the opportunity to develop these
competencies and skills.
It had many different practices. For example, there
was conducted the Online Session, devoted to the
30-th Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster. The pupils
were able to watch presentation with the basic facts
about Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and then they
had the quiz “What do you know about Chernobyl
Accident?”
I have created the European Teachers Group for
Peace Education for interaction among teachers-
coordinators. It has become a platform for
communication not only for teachers of our Project
but also for other eTwinners who support Peace
Education. See the link: https://goo.gl/EFD45R. We
conducted Live and On-Site Events for the members
of this group during which they shared their
experience in organizing of Learning and Extra
Curriculum Activities devoted to the International
Day of Peace.
There were many project outcomes which its
participants had created. One of them was the
website “Let’s Give Peace a Chance” on Weebly
https://goo.gl/j8kY3u where you may make more
close acquaintance with this project and its aims
and tasks.
Project “Let’s Be Tolerant!”
The next project, which had rather positive impact
both on teachers and pupils of our educational
establishment, was the project “Let’s Be Tolerant!”
It was aimed at promoting the values of tolerance
through celebrating of International Day of
Tolerance (November, 16).
The project work was organized so that our pupils
were able to act both in small groups and
individually. In small groups they brainstormed the
issue “What is tolerance?” and created the common
project’ outcomes. In addition, they studied and
researched the problem individually, created a logo
and drawings for the project, wrote their essays
and prepared presentations and videos. Such
approaches gave an opportunity to involve into the
project's work the pupils of different abilities and to
increase their interest to study.
The pupils were divided into groups according to
their interests and inclinations: painters, singers,
story tellers, digital specialists, secretaries, leaders
of groups. But they all were the promoters of
tolerance. They expressed their commitment to
tolerance through their final products. For example,
the singers and digital specialists created their
videos with songs about tolerance. The digital
specialists and painters created the wordclouds,
drawings, paintings, wall papers and posters about
tolerance and disposed them on the Page “Imagery
of Tolerance”. Children, who liked to write, wrote
essays about tolerance in English or in their native
language.
Our pupils had a quiz “When in Rome" about
differences in customs, traditions and rules of
etiquette in different countries of the world. Now
they are realizing that it is very important to be
sensitive to the environment, behave tactfully and
respect things that are important to other peoples.
It may be concluded that through collaboration and
creativity on the theme of tolerance our pupils have
found the way to express themselves, their
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