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Empowerment in ICT Skills - Making Use of Technology Tools
Start date: Aug 21, 2016, End date: Aug 20, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Editing the mobility project of the Second Chance School of Florina on the topic of “Empowerment in ICT Skills – Making Use of Technology Tools” concerns the participation of teachers of the above mentioned school in an educational activity which will take place in Malta 22-26 of August 2016. It pertains to the incorporation of new technologies in adult education, since the enrichment of the learning process has become necessary. The Second Chance Schools is the fruit of politics of Lifelong Learning and they are expected to make the good of learning a reality for the European citizens who have dropped out of compulsory education. The project will last for one year and it will include a mobility of the chosen group towards the organizer (Malta).The participants of the program are four teachers of the Second Chance School of Florina, who chose to serve at that school, where there is a fertile ground for the implementation of innovative teaching methods. They have experience in education and especially in adult education. They constantly aim, through training, at becoming familiar with new educational systems, which are attractive and effective for trainees . Their inclusion to a European educational program is required since a long time ago, because the Second Chance School is by nature a European school. They have participated in self-evaluation processes in the school context. They have completed postgraduate studies based on new technologies and on adult education.The main objective during the participation in the program is the exchange of views, ideas and experiences, for the purpose of learning many interesting, friendly technology tools, suitable for better organizing lesson plans, adapted to their students needs and according to the European standards. This way they will help the trainees to develop a positive attitude towards the information society. Moreover, there is the goal of the teacher joining in the internationalized society and getting in touch with the cultural heritage of another European people.The activities that will take place are the following: At first, a pedagogical meeting with the participants will be organized, including an updating on the receiving country. Then a learning contract will be designed, which will outline the possible work objects of the program, the intended mutual goals and the anticipated results. Subsequently, an interdisciplinary project will be realized at school, enabling the use of digital tools and for that reason contributing to the gradual initiation of the trainees to new technologies. Then, making good use of the educational tools presented in the European program may further enrich the process of the school project, as well as of other similar projects. A process of self-evaluation of the teachers will follow.Concerning the methodology used during the program, at first brainstorming will precede and the method of problem-analysis and problem-solving will be implemented. The partners will function as a team and they will participate in discussions for the purpose of exchanging views and ideas. In addition, they will have the chance to participate actively and in a practical way. Through teleconferences, e-mails, social networks, communication may be constant, along with the resolving of questions and any problems.Participating in the program, the teachers are expected to become able to choose, for their lessons, the most suitable methods and the respective modern educational tools, which involve the use of new technologies, so as to motivate their students and to fight the school dropout. They will cultivate a more active and experiential learning, as well as the cooperation inside the team. After the completion of the program, they are expected to communicate the knowledge and the new skills acquired, both in the context of in-school training and in a circumferential level. At the same time, they will develop educational material, posted on the school’s website, available for the structures of Lifelong Learning. Also, the participants will develop their language skills. Collaborations may be developed and a constructive cooperation with the European partners may be founded.Through the teachers’ participation in the program, the Second Chance School of Florina will join the most recent European approaches concerning the use of new technologies, the phenomena of social exclusion and discriminations will start to decrease. Moreover, the school’s extroversion will be supported, making it open to the society and to any potential cooperation with local, circumferential and international organizations. With the European additional value that the school will obtain, it will have the ability to function at both a European and an international level.
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