Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2023 Newsletter
A good eTwinning project is a project that has reached a certain national and European standard . These adequate – or even excellent – projects are awarded the Quality Project of the Month , the National Quality Label , the European Quality Label , or a national and / or European eTwinning prize . The quality marks represent a clear recognition of the quality of the activities carried out by the teachers in their eTwinning projects .
For the students , these quality labels and national / European awards ‘ have the role to stimulate their efforts ’, whereas for schools they are ‘ a public statement of their commitment to promote quality and openness for European collaboration activities .’
In order to obtain a Quality Label , a project must show overall excellence in the following fields : 1 . Pedagogical creativity and innovation 2 . Curriculum integration 3 . Collaboration between partner schools 4 . Use of technology 5 . Durability and transferability 6 . Results and benefits
For the second criterion , Curriculum Integration , the performance indicators are the following : The project is integrated in the usual lesson plans : activities , content , objectives , including reflections of the activities in the results of tests or other forms of assessment .
Levels of curriculum integration Before giving a brief explanation of the different levels of integration , I would like to talk about the fragmentary model , which is the traditional mode of organisation of the curriculum . Every subject is separate and distinct from the others . This model „ sees ” the
curriculum through a periscope , which offers one single frame at any given moment . The eTwinning projects do not use this model , because doing this would mean that the teachers involved in the project – at least two , from the two founding schools – only list the subjects , curricula , concepts and skills without taking the first step : without asking for curricular priority .
Types of approaches The intradisciplinary approach ( the connected model ) Key word : harmonization
The model in this approach is the connected one . This resembles the viewpoint one has through a pair of glasses or binoculars . It brings to the foreground the details , subtleties and interconnections within a subject . The key for this model is the deliberate effort of the teachers to share ideas on the subject , without assuming that the students will automatically understand the connections . A topic , a concept , a skill is connected to the next one . The work of a school day or the effort put forward in a semester is connected to the next one or another one .
The project The Harmony of Nature ” is a good example of integrated activities and application of the connected model in an eTwinning project .
The multidisciplinary approach : ( the conic model ; the sequential model ; the shared model ; the ramified model ) Key word : correlation
At this level we can differentiate between subjects from the same curriculum area – thus , we can talk about the conic model – and subjects from different curriculum areas –
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