Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 123

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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The schools aim at developing a programme leading
to a Certificate of Personal Competences (CPC) that
will be implemented in the schools on a long-term
basis. Moreover the concept and the steps will be
published in an eBook for other institutions to use
for their students. Many schools throughout Europe
face these problems and we would like to find ways
of addressing them and sharing our ideas with
other institutions via the project blog. The project
team has taken a conscious decision to focus on
pupils who are not achieving their potential - this
includes pupils of lower abilities but also gifted
students who are hindered by other factors from
getting the best marks they could. The teachers of
the schools involved will have the chance to think
about their students and their pedagogical and
teaching methods in a different way. Many teachers
only see the knowledge a student has and how s/he
uses it in class. This approach will help teachers to
see their pupils from a holistic point of view. So
teacher will find new ways of working with the
pupils thus helping them to improve their exam
results. We believe that this project will facilitate
new developments in our schools which would not
be possible without the European perspective
enriching us with different views on solving the
problems we are all faced.
The four partner schools will develop a programme
that leads to developing personal competences in
the students. Participants will be given the CPC to
use for their applications in order to enhance their
chances on the labour market. The certificate will
focus on 4 aspects which teachers have identified
as the most problematic areas: time management,
reflecting yourself, lifelong learning and project
management. All areas are seen as vital in the
European and national discussion on qualifications
for young people before they start working life.
Our project includes 4 modules. This is a video
about our first meeting from Serres, Greece:
https://youtu.be/i5FR5czhRHs.
The students have learned during the first module
(February 2019) about different learning types and
learning styles testing themselves and developing
strategies and examples for successful learning.
Moreover they did investigate about motivation and
how to improve their motivation.
The second module about Self-reflection will be the
theme of our second meeting at Hagen-Germany
(the last week of September 2019). The aim of this
meeting is to help students discover their talents
and suitable job profiles. Students will find out
about their strengths and weaknesses and discover
ideas of how to work on them. Furthermore they
will be given the chance to experience of
overcoming their weaknesses and being successful.
Students are invited to consider carefully to what
extent time is a structuring category in their
personal life; during our third exchange that will
take part to Bucharest in the first week of
November 2019. Our aim is to make students
become conscious of their attitude and relationship
towards time by making students reflect on their
past time activities and their daily routine. They will
heighten their awareness to the role of time in
society and become more attentive to the way time
is ‘treated’ publicly. By means of different activities
and the application of various methods - students
will learn how to work for a cooperative
international project, promote an intercultural
dialogue; use ICT to communicate, share, create,
collaborate.
The last school exchange will be in Italy where we
are going to discuss about project management. We
would like to give students the skills of treating
their formal education as a kind of project and learn
how to successfully manage this. In order to
achieve this, we are going to give students the task
to think of a product (concert, party, play...) they
would like to organise on the penultimate day of the
project meeting. Students will be working together
in an international team to initiate their project and
discuss what they need to do. Next they will plan
their steps in preparation.
Niculina Chiper works at Colegiul Național Mihai Viteazul in
Bucharest, Romania. She has been an active eTwinner
since 2011. She has always been interested in sharing her
teaching experience and in enriching it with new ideas
from schools and colleagues throughout Europe.
Some examples of digital activities for the
development of mathematical skills
by Anamaria Corina Golumbeanu
Today the focus is on the blended learning. This
methods introduce digital activities into classes.
Blended learning, or better, mixed learning is a mix
of technology-based and traditional methods.
An example of e-learning is to guide students in
solving online tests created within the Erasmus+
KA2 project SCORE - Student Competences as
Outputs of Research-Based Education.
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