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FORMACION SIN FRONTERAS
FORMACION SIN FRONTERAS
Start date: Jun 1, 2015,
End date: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
This Project was born within the framework of new teaching situations at schools – teachers need to gain and use effectively new digital and language skills and approaches , especially those teaching groups that use English in content and language integrated language (CLIL) in “bilingual” groups that use a variety of approaches and digital text books.
Some of the aims to be achieved were:
To develop the school’s internationalization strategy, improving the skills in order to modernise the school management and open it internationally.
To improve classroom pedagogics and teaching process, making it modern, dynamic and
open to innovative techniques
To promote permanent collaboration and develop links with secondary schools and institutions in different European countries.
To strategically plan and implement the school’s goals and the professional development of the teachers working here.
To improve teachers’ qualifications
To promote and improve teachers’ professional skills – digital skills and communication and language abilities
To improve the use of effective classroom teaching and learning techniques
To promote better opportunities for teachers’ professional development
The initial project considered six teachers of the IES Universidad Laboral de Toledo taking part in mobility activities - teachers using CLIL approach to secondary school students, teachers using new technologies, computer-based activities and digital textbooks, and English and French teachers. Eventually, only two mobilities were approved- structured courses for a teacher of French at 1st cycle Compulsory Secondary (ESO) and a science teacher at 1st cycle Compulsory Secondary teaching in English.
Because of this restructuration of the project, there was a revision of the activities to be carried out by teachers during the project
Training courses for specific purposes
Methodology
The Project has been implemented during the school year 2015-16. At the endo of the school year 2014-15, information about the project and project approval was given
Preparation before the start of the activity
- Selection of teachers
- Contact with institutions and partner schools
- Planning of places and times when the activities will take place
During mobility activities
- Follow up
- Evaluation
After mobility activities
-Dissemination of approaches and pedagogies acquired
- Assessment of results
- Implementation and use of learning activities in the classroom.
Results and impact obtained:
According to the expected objectives, the impact in the short term has consisted of:
- Improvement of cultural and communicative and language skills in a foreign language of teachers taking place in the activity.
- Improvement of teachers’ digital competences and their ability to use ITC
- A gain of a variety of teaching ideas and methodologies to be used in the classroom
- Implementation and use of resources explained during the course to increase the cultural and communicative competence of students of French as a first or second foreign language.
In the short and long term, and according to the school’s plan to integrate the learnings achieved during the project within the goals of the school as an education institution, there will be various long- term benefits:
- Modernizing of the school and opening up to other international institutions. A new KA101 has been approved for the next school year, as well as a KA 102 and a KA 103 (mobility for students and teachers within the Vocational Studens
Improving and expanding the collaboration network with schools and institutions in other countries
Improvement of teachers’ qualifications.
The resources and new methodological and digital learning has been disseminated amongst teachers within departments and the whole school, other members of education community and teachers at other schools by using social networks and the Universidad Laboral de Toledo web page, especially Twitter and the Erasmus+ section http://www.ulaboral.org/erasmuswordpress/
An e-Twinning project has been generated – “Our World”, with a Scottish school, which probably will go on next school year. Contacts between other European schools and institutions will be increased in order to work together on new e-Twinning projects in Spanish , English or French.
There has been an evaluation of the whole process of the project.
Some resources have been uploaded in the Dashboard platform.