Creative and innovative solutions in education
Start date: Aug 20, 2015,
End date: Aug 19, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Menntaskolinn in Tröllaskaga has been working since 2010. It functions under Iceland's newest legislation for education and provides more flexibility in study options. The school offers an ambitious program with diverse teaching methods that focus on student performance and independence. The school has been leading in innovation in learning and teaching, in management and distribution of decision taking, in new ways of organizing learning materials and new ways of implementing innovation and creativity and as such the school is ahead of many of the secondary schools in Iceland.
The objective of the project is to maintain and reinforce innovation, entrepeneurship and creativity as main streams at the school. It is necessary to step out off the local reality and visit schools outside Iceland in order to get inspiration, reinforcement and feed- back on what is done. The experiences of job-shadowing at these schools will fulfill the needs of the staff to reflect and strengthen themselves in the work of other colleagues exploring new ways of working, getting inspiration and feedback. The project adds furthermore an international aspect to our school while permitting us to see our work in a wider European perspective. It is essential for the school community to experience the staff being able to reflect upon the reality in foreign countries and show that they are able to widen their horizon.
The total number mobilities ( 10) stand for the number of staff members that have expressed desire to participate in the project. All the participants have been very active and have had key-roles at school implementing creativity, entrepeneurship and innovation in their learning material and teaching methods. For them it is time to step out of their reality widening their horizon and get new inspiration in order to withheld and further develop innovative and creative ideas.
At the end of the school-year 2015 the participants will be consulted as to when the visits will take place . A collaborative platform with the schools involved will be established as well as a preparatory meeting will be organized at the beginning at the school year 2015-2016 where mobilities will be explained and further preparation and organization will be discussed. The school year and the project will start in of in August 2015 with a lecture on innovation and creativity, and and on line presentation with the first school that will be visite , followed a working session. The further program for the year 2015-2016 will be presented.
Positive contact has been made with two schools in Denmark Köbenhavns åbne gymnasium (http://www.kg.dk/node/191) and Örestad gymnasium ( http://www.oerestadgym.dk/oplev-skolen) . We have made a preliminary plan of 5 visits throughout the school-year 2015-2016; two visits in the Autumn2015 and three during Spring 2016. For each visit the schools in Denmark will find participants willing to open up their working environment and participate in the job-shadowing. They will also from an active role in the reflection and participate on a collaborative platform in advance of the visit.
In each visit 2 participants will go together on job-shadowing. The mentorship and guidance through the project will be done through the collaborative platform on one hand and on the other during the regular meetings held every week at school.
A t the end of the project we will hold a workshop in order work out new ideas , how they can be used at school, how they fit and add to the schools main values, teaching methods and learning environment, meeting the needs of the school community. All summaries and ideas gained will be published and shared on the collaborative platform.
We want to inspire and build up young people by giving them instruments to work with in the future very vital in an area like the school is situated in. We want them to gain bigger self-confidence and strength. But we realize that in order to do so we need our staff to do the same. In order to be able do that we hope that the impact of the visit will be a vital reinforcement of the mains values of the school as well as an reinforcement of the participants.
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