Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 30

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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However, implementing skills in schools requires
that appropriate teaching methods are developed.
Given their interdisciplinary nature, it is necessary
to have a teaching that spaces between the various
subjects and, consequently, a planning that
involves the whole school.
A school, in fact, that continues to base its teaching
exclusively on the teacher who explains, questions,
corrects the tasks, assigns the grades and on the
student who only has to listen, answer questions,
perform the exercises to be evaluated, is a school
that transmits so many notions, but that teaches
little and that children experience as an
anachronistic, useless, boring self-referential
institution that has no relationship with real life.
I am proud to say that we are part of this wonderful
and magical world and we write beautiful stories
every minute, day, month – year after year we
have more and more opportunities to tell to others
our stories of joy and achievements!
Emilia Elisabeta Nițescu is a primary school teacher at
Școala Gimnazială “Georg Daniel Teutsch” in Agnita, Sibiu
county, Romania.
eTwinning forever
#etwinning
by Loredana Ursini and Cira Serio
For several years now, our San Tarcisio Primary
School in Ercolano has been aiming to implement
innovative teaching, aimed at providing our
students with skills and not just knowledge.
Certainly basic knowledge and skills are necessary,
but they are no longer sufficient to meet today's
complex social demands of an increasingly
competitive global economy. In an increasingly
digital world, where professions based on functional
skills are in decline, competence-oriented education
therefore takes on particular relevance, as acquiring
skills means being able to effectively apply a
combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes to
react successfully to a situation or solve a problem
in the real world.
In order for the school to help the pupil acquire real
skills, it is therefore necessary to create interactive
educational environments, in which the pupils can
engage in practical and inquiry-based activities.
These educational environments, which promote
collaborative and multidisciplinary learning, are
increasingly favored by technology. In particular,
project-based learning is one method particularly
suited to developing pupils' skills, because different
key competences can be tackled simultaneously in
an interdisciplinary manner. This is the reason why
our School has given ample space in its teaching to
eTwinning projects in these years, because they are
a successful channel for the development of skills,
as pupils are engaged in active learning in real life
situations and they become active and responsible
for their own learning, developing the ability to
learn independently: "Learning to learn"
competence.
With eTwinning projects, teachers and students
have the opportunity to experience a new way of
doing teaching based on exchange and
collaboration in a multicultural context, on the use
of information technology, on communication in a
foreign language, with numerous appropriate
growth rate.
eTwinning projects are electronic twinning with
European schools, which are developed through an
IT platform that involves teachers and students,
making them known and collaborating in a simple,
fast and safe way, through activities enriched by an
international dimension that favors the creation of a
concrete sense of European citizenship.
This year our school has participated in four
projects: Enjoy the STEAM, WWW-What a
Wonderful World, La mia splendida terra and
Wonderland, founded by our School.
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