Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 109

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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A key highlight of my eTwinning time in the last
school year was my participation in the eTwinning
Annual Conference 2016 „Embedding eTwinning in
School Education” held in Athens, Greece.
The project “Peer bullying in school”, which we
firstly joined last autumn, included many interactive
activities on increasing students and teachers’
positive involvement in the bullying situation at
school and preventing bullying. As teachers, it's our
responsibility to discuss with students, including
those with disabilities, about bullying at schools and
to give аdvice on good mаnners and behavior in
оrder to prevent both, physical and verbal violence
at school. Mаnners need to be tаught, shown, and
fortified by teachers, parents and other adults who
have authority over them. I managed to include the
activities of the project into the national curriculum.
I focused on developing transversal and
interdisciplinary skills, using ICT in the classroom
and project based learning method. Besides, I paid
a lot of attention to the development of specific
competencies of English language use, by receiving
and producing oral messages, identifying the key
information in the audio or video messages
provided by our partners, participating in dialogues
on topics of everyday life situations; receiving and
producing written messages using information from
various sources to perform a structured work task,
writing stories aimed at presenting opinions and
views on a certain topic.
Moreover, I devoted time and efforts to develop
students’ civic competencies and sеlf-management
skills nеcessary to work succеssfully both alone and
in a group as well as their intercultural skills by
selecting distinctive cultural aspects presented in
videos, photos and presentations of project
partners. I am really proud to mention that as a
result of our great team work, the project “Peer
bullying in school” was awarded with the National
Quality Label.
The exchange with teachers on different subjects
opened the door to new project collaboration. I met
Sabine Callens, a teacher from Belgium, and thanks
to our initiative, the project “RAR(R)E Responsible
Assistance Reporters aRound Europe” was born.
The project is ongoing and through its development
I and my students discovered and explored a new
world of technology use in the classroom.
We realized that the effectiveness of communication
increases when the right tools are used. Thus, to
date, we chose TwinSpace as an excellent tool for
our collaboration.
At national level, I and my students to