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Comunicando sin fronteras
Comunicando sin fronteras
Start date: Oct 3, 2016,
End date: Jun 2, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
For several school years, the teachers in our school have come to the same conclusion: our students don´t have many chances to express themselves in a correct way. The official curriculum is mainly focused towards the development of the receptive skills: we want our children to listen (and understand) and to read (and understand). But we know for a fact that preparing them for an adequate future would necessary imply helping them develop their productive skills: express themselves properly both orally and on written words. This should be done not only in their mother tongue but also in a second language and, ideally, in more. Nevertheless, this fact doesn´t seem to have the social interest and impact that it should.But the situation got worse for us. When the local radio station was closed by the Townhall we, who had been there with our students and had experienced their enthusiasm and motivation during the activities, were completely aware that the town had lost “its voice”. It had lost a fundamental tool, a space where the important things for the local people, the things that unite us, were told. After a long common thinking process, the teachers of our school realized that we had to do something in order to fill in that educational gap. Besides, we had to try to do it in a way that would be helpful for the community to regain an important communicative path: the speech.It was then when we started to think about our project on communication, focused mainly on the radio (but not only). We thought about the local radio, and its possible reopening as a way to bring together the town´s reality (as well as the reality of all the educational centers that there are). But we also thought about the radio through podcast as a way to take the school and the town to a more European and more open reality. That would allow us a pluricultural and –of course- plurilinguistic enrichment, in our mother tongue, in English and in French. We also thought about other ways ways to communicate orally which involve the New Technologies, an unquestionable reality in our student´s lives and very relevant in our school (Skype, Webminars...) That is how our Project “Communicating without borders" emerges. It is a School Project in which there are 8 teachers involved at the moment. But the project aims at engaging many more. We have the following goals:1º.- Helping the teachers in the development of the their student´s basic communicative skills, through activities and tools that are fun for them.2º.- Developing strategies so that the school could help the town to “open up” to new frontiers, building up, through the radio, a more flexible communication channel.3º.- Linking all the educational centres in our town through the communication projects, with a long term goal of an intertwined cooperation. 4º.- Training the staff so that they promote in the students a positive and team-building athmosphere, allowing the personal enrichment by means of team effort and a shared goal. 5º.- Securing in the staff the emotional links with our European reality so that they can pass that on to the students in a natural way.In order to carry out our Project which be a part of the School Yearly Program in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, we will set up a “Working Team". This Working Team will consist of the teachers who are interested in the Project. They will establish the goals (short-term, mid-term, and long-term) that we aim at, as much as the timing , the methodology and the assessment.Some of the participants in the Working Team will do some observation of good practices in different training visits. 4 training visits have been already been settled with three different countries (5 educational centres in total). Each of the chosen centres focuses on a different aspect of communication, which will enrich our work. The participant teachers will have to follow some observation protocols that will help him or her to get the most out of the stay. Besides, after every visit, there will be a Working Team special meeting in which the participant will explain to the rest the results of his or her observations. The Team will also assess our project up to that date (impact, satisfaction and viability). Based on the conclusions they get, the Project will be reajusted.During the school year 2017-2018, the team will carry out the broadcasting regarding European Commission Projects as well as the final assessment of the Project, giving importance to the impact in the community and sustainability, the satisfaction of all participants and the academic results.