Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 115

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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creativity, and motivation to read. The use of
information and communication technologies (ICT),
the development of communication skills will be
promoted.
The project assumes an international dimension as
it is structured and integrated into the eTwinning
platform that promotes school collaboration in
Europe (and not only) through the use of
information and communication technologies (ICT),
providing support, tools and services for schools.
With the aim of communicating, collaborating,
developing projects, sharing and, in short,
participating in the most exciting European
educational community
After an initial coordination meeting between school
leaders, referent lecturers and project team in order
to start planning and schedule commitments, the
project developed in three phases:
I. Initial training phase
This first phase involves the participation of the
project team in training sessions (with experts) on
CLIL teaching methods and innovative classroom
management practices as well as on learning
environments through the use of new multimedia
and multimodal technologies on the eTwinning
platform. This phase started with a first meeting on
the theoretical aspects of the CLIL methodology.
Two laboratory meetings were held on the use of
the eTwinning platform, which is essential for
project structuring and management in CLIL,
workshops on the setting of UDL with CLIL
methodology and a webinar held by the researcher
of the Indire who directed and supported the tutors
Didactic methodology for a proper start-up. The
goal here is to promote digital skills for both
teachers and students using learning environments
that allow the expansion of language skills in digital
mode, by strengthening the average English
language level with language enhancement courses
and with elements of Innovative didactics, related
to QCER
II. Training phase and guided experimentation
Subsequently, all weekly training workshops (3
hours) always favoured classroom experimentation
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