Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 124
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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eTwinning: A tool for teachers’ professional
development
by Antonietta Calò
Filling in the Mobility Tool and the Beneficiary’s
Dashboard for the closing of my Erasmus +KA1
project has given me the chance to reflect on my
professional development as a Foreign Language
(FL) teacher and, above all, as an etwinner. But
let’s start from the beginning…
June 2015: the two-year project “Europa 2020:
docenti formati, studenti preparati “ (Europe
2020:trained teachers, skilled students) that I
planned within the Erasmus+ programme was
approved and funded, allowing 13 people of my
Institute- teachers and administrative employees-
to join European training courses. In October, I
attend a training course in Cardiff entitled “Using
technology for teaching English”.
project, where we could upload the results we
would get with our students thanks to our
innovative teaching methods. With this
collaboration the eTwinning project “eTwinning: a
tool for teachers’ professional development” was
born!
During that school year, I showcased all the results
I was getting with my students in all the official
dissemination meetings I ran as an eTwinning
Ambassador for Campania region, pointing out how
eTwinning had helped me in planning a winning
Erasmus+ project and how its platform was
supporting me in the running of the whole KA1 in
my school.
Thanks to my expertise, I was called to be a
member of the project group for the planning of the
KA1 Consortium – call 2016 - on behalf of the
Regional School Board. The project was approved
and it funded 22 Digital Champions of different
schools in Campania to attend a training course
abroad. Luckily I was one of the group of the
trainees and in October 2016 I attended the course
in Ipswich on “Using technology effectively to
enhance English”. Once again eTwinning was the
core of my own professional development and at
the same time the starting point for my colleagues’
professional improvement.
Moreover, before our departure for the Training
Course, the Italian National Support Service
approved my eTwinning project ”Campania Digitale
per Europa 2020” (Digital Campania for Europe
2020). In the TwinSpace of this project, each
teacher joining the Consortium had their own
school page where to share any personal teaching
experience deriving from the training abroad. In
this way the dedicated eTwinning project was a tool
to collect results, outcomes, innovative teaching
methods and approaches, but also a tool to share
and disseminate good practice among teachers’
communities and connections.
Here I met EFL teachers from different grades of
schools and from different European countries to
whom I proposed my idea to create an eTwinning
Considering that the group of 22 Digital Champions
attended not only a training course about the use of
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