Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For example: 1) promote the professional development through online resources and peer learning, exchange of best practices and peer support; 2) stimulate innovative teaching practices / learning-based technologies; 3) integrate digital technologies in teaching; 4) enhance cooperation to increase student motivation and the effectiveness of learning.
Last step of the Provincial Training Plan eTwinning was the final conference of reflection on the results and experiences sharing, sponsored by the city of Foggia and with the collaboration of the University of Foggia, which was attended by all the teachers at the end of the joints path.
Conclusions The results of this trial are the starting points for a progressive approach to innovative reality of eTwinning for all teachers, with the hope that eTwinning become not only a " European " project to do one-off, but a vehicle to introduce in a simple and natural way of doing education, through the regular use of new technologies, foreign language communication and learning in a multicultural context.
The teachers who participated in the provincial eTwinning training have seen increase their professional skills and the key competencies of their students, through the implementation of remote collaboration projects through the use of ICT and the language.
Due to its flexibility, sustainability and openness to innovation and the national and international comparison, eTwinning is particularly suitable for the training of future teachers who increasingly will be called upon to use ICT in everyday teaching, to support communication and learning a foreign language, to work for projects involving students actively developing customized learning pathways that favor the development of key skills.
The Conference of May the 9 th, Europe Day, was an important moment for the new eTwinners in which they demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge that incorporate an eTwinning project into the curriculum may become established teaching practice, through which able to " put in place " an active teaching, performing various tasks with new methods, where students are active constructors of their own knowledge and fundamental skills through which to develop the basic cultural skills in the perspective of the full development of the person in an enlarged Europe awareness to the world community.
The Italian NSS( which operates within the Agency Erasmus Plus- Indire) joined in 2013 at the European eTwinning trial " Teachers Training Pilot " with the involvement of some European universities, responsible for initial teacher training, in business eTwinning training on teaching practices through electronic twinning and pilot projects between students from different participating countries. Each country has declined the European experiment according to their context and needs of the actors involved.
In addition, through the cooperation of the NSS Regional School Office it is promoting the eTwinning spread among new recruits and among the new professionals in the school, such as digital animators and teachers of the Innovation Team.
It should be remembered that many school principals have entered the eTwinning training in upgrade paths for all teachers of their own institutes in the Offer- Plan of School 2016-2019.
It will be very interesting to follow the developments of this trial that sees work collaborative schools, universities, USR and the NSS with the common goal of innovating teaching and promote the internationalization of schools through networking, updating professional teachers and circulation of ideas and best practices, with a view
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