Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Teachers, if you want to change your life, be eTwinners! by Dhurata Myrtollari
Albanian education is developing rapidly with the highest standards of European education. The eTwinning network and the twinning of the Albanian and European schools have led to professional development of teachers and improvement of teaching in our schools.
Bowling was one of the students’ favourite activities to relax after workshops and hard work on the project.
Discussions and the exchange of ideas of young people in the project have been constructive, they have discovered new things, they are aware of belonging to a large eTwinning family with the same interests, they can perfect their linguistic and digital competences.
It was a unique and unforgettable experience. The students met a different world, another culture, history, beautiful people, lovely friends, whom they parted with great difficulty when they left. The European openness that has been given to us has led us to reflect on what we have lived and learned, as well as to share what they have learned about environmental issues, culture, European civilization with teachers and other students.
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Cristina Gîlă is a History and Civics teacher at the Constantin Bratescu National Pedagogic College in Constanta, Romania. Her interests include projects about history, human rights, European Union, Holocaust, European culture and art, creative writing. She has received European Quality Labels for her eTwinning projects and one project was shortlisted for the European Prize in 2014. She also coordinated one Leonardo da Vinci project. She has been an eTwinning ambassador since 2013.
eTwinning is a great opportunity for all Albanian teachers and everywhere. Even though with many years of delay, in the end, in 2014 Albania became part of this giant European Commission project.
I remember at the beginning of recording on this network, I was very excited because for the first time I was in the right place, in the group of teachers I had been asking for years.
I am a teacher of the Albanian language course in the 9-year school " Kushtrimi i Lirisë " Tirana. In this school I have been teaching for 10 years, and in education I am in the 21st year of work. I received the title " Teacher Master " I am the coordinator of the eTwinning European network for Albania and the Scientix network ambassador for Albania.
How did I become part of this network? The beginning was very difficult, but the great support of the teachers of this network brought about a continuous improvement of my teaching. There is no computer or laptop in my school where you can illustrate additional teaching materials. But we managed to make very beautiful projects and sometimes winners of national prizes in eTwinning with the strong support of school parents.
For five years I have been a member of the eTwinning network, and my professional development has been running very fast. I have participated in many projects and we have come to appreciate many National Quality Labels and European Quality Labels.
Throughout in my work as a teacher, I participated in various activities focusing on the education and professional development of my teaching process. I have a participant in the administration of the first State Matura since its first year in 2005, and then as a Master of Examinations and the National Examinations for Tirana Schools. In 2016, I was the representative of the Ministry of Education in the Region of Tirana for the progress of the Matura 2016 exam process. I was also:- assessor of the National Examinations for Tirana Schools;
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