Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 125

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
personal devices to enhance students’ learning process, but also a two-day job-shadowing in the local schools, one can appreciate what a fantastic experience it was and how much innovation each of us was able to spread through the pages of the eTwinning project!
I was really satisfied and proud of my planning and running this KA1 Consortium project as it was considered a Best Practice by the School Office of the Italian Ministry of Education.
At this point, as an eTwinning Ambassador I could disseminate the lessons learned from two different KA1 in the Erasmus + programmes to inspire junior teachers with my experience. I am proud to have motivated senior teachers to innovate their teaching methods thanks to a student focused approach. invitation and together with 4 high schools of the region I created the network” CLIL in daily school life” with the mission of creating, sharing and disseminating the CLIL approach via the dedicated eTwinning project.
The second project“ EcoLab: una guida alla difesa attiva dell’ ambiente”( Ecolab: a guide to actively protect the environment) was created by my Science colleague as a result of her training course abroad under the KA1- call 2015- that I have mentioned before. The main aim of this project, joined by local schools of different levels, from preelementary to junior high ones, was to promote a greener lifestyle among young people, teaching them how to reduce the waste line, how to reuse and recycle, in order to be conscious European citizens.
As for my school, the direct consequence of all this innovative process has been the launch of two more national eTwinning projects both of them about the use of CLIL methodology and collecting a network of schools of Campania Region as project members.
What can I add? I must recognise that the last two years have been a real challenge for me, but I am proud of the results I have achieved! I have improved my professional development, as an EFL teacher and as an eTwinning Ambassador, stretching my personal and teaching skills: each one of them made me a bit better!
eTwinning has proved to be an effective tool for innovation and dissemination, giving teachers the chance to share their own personal experience, and to be enriched by partners’ ones, according to eTwinning mission of long life learning.
The first project“ CLIL in a CLICK” was born with a double aim: first, to stimulate Italian students towards the Extensive Reading, and second, to create CLIL modules on the different topics using 2.0 web-tools. It is important to point out that with the Upper School Reform in 2010, the CLIL teaching method is mandatory but there are neither enough qualified teachers, nor enough teaching material. For this reason the Regional School Board had invited teachers to create innovative CLIL based projects to be funded. I decided to accept the
In Italy we say that“ una ciliegia tira l’ altra”, which means” Once you start eating cherries, you cannot stop” – let me say that eTwinning projects are my personal cherries!
Antonietta Calò is a teacher of English as a foreign language at Liceo Scientifico” Don L. Milani” in Gragnano, Naples, Italy. She has been an active eTwinner since 2007 and an eTwinning Ambassador for Campania region since 2010. She is interested in enhancing her students’ learning process thanks to the conscious use of ICT.
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