Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 35

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ community as extensive as our eTwinning, it is very unlikely to come face to face with the people with whom you have only worked electronically. However, it happened! After my mother's death in August 2018, Rosalba and I received the wonderful visit of Olga Mosca, who came from Salerno-Naples to see us. We spent two extraordinary days in Taormina and Catania, like very old friends who meet each other after a long time. A bond born with eTwinning has solidified in real and concrete human relationships. The need to stand next to a colleague who has had such an important loss was perceived, and friends come together to face even difficult moments with resilience. Learn math by playing by Diana Gheorghe Mathematical concepts are used by all people every day, but many describe this science as unfriendly. It is learnt from early childhood, from the age of 3 years, and depending on how attractive it is to the children, they will form an open and positive attitude towards it. More and more often, in school, there is talk of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. The STEM approach integrates all areas involved in a coherent learning paradigm based on real-world applications. Therefore, the basic concepts in this approach are interdisciplinarity and applications in different contexts. Through the eTwinning project, "Let's start working about " we wanted a STEM approach, a project to help students understand mathematical concepts more easily. In May 2019 I find myself once again meeting Amparo Salom Badenes from Valencia, Spain, who did a job shadowing in my school. Again eTwinning gave me the opportunity to meet (not just virtually) wonderful teachers who have a European vision similar to mine, and with a considerable human sensitivity. Twins in eTwinning, this is what we are – conception of strategies, dissemination of good practices, sharing of tools, but also of friendship, communion of deep feelings and positive emotions. The objectives were: 1. The main objective of the project was to enable all students to successfully learn math with mathematic materials. 2. Students developed the critical thinking skills and gained the ability of problem solving in daily life and in business life. 3. Improvement students ' technology skills, 4. Increasing student’s self-confidence, 5. Enabling our students to understand and interpret mathematics more easily and giving them love for school. 6. Foreign language skills were developed. Target group: students in primary school. The project brought together teachers and pupils from Turkey, Greece, Albania, Romania, Lithuania and Ukraine. At the beginning of the project we created logos and posters, and after the vote the logo of the project was established. In the webinars we interacted with the partners establishing the project activities, but also for the students to know each other and communicate on the topic of a set activity. Irene Confalone is a cross curricular teacher in a primary school in San Giovanni La Punta, a town near Catania in Italy. She loves her job and she loves children. She enjoys sharing ideas with teachers from all over the world. She loves eTwinning because she can discover, every day, a new way of teaching. We tried to develop their learning speed and we achieved the targeted progress with mathematical materials. We organised activities every month in cooperation with our project partners according to the project plan and our students’ ages and school curriculum in each class/school of our partners. 35