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Innovating learning and teaching
Innovating learning and teaching
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Context : Changes in school life and future society calls for changes in education and teaching. We as a school want to innovate our practices, and the international dimension is an important part of our development plan.
Background: A secondary school with 630 pupils in a suburb to Aarhus. Our school is part of the west schools in Aarhus, schools with an important percentage of immigrants. Our pupils, who are mainly ethnic Danes, continue in youth educations in schools with strong multicultural profiles. We see that as an asset, and our goal is to prepare our pupils, and develop their intercultural understanding and sensitivity.
Objectives:
Developing and innovating new cross-borders networks for educational areas as: Sustainability, International dimension, Entrepreneurship, Team-building and Creativity
Innovating our practices in order to meet the demands we face as teachers in a rapidly changing global society.
Changing Best Practise into Next Practise, forseeing future conditions.
Number, profiles of participants :
20 mobilities in a two year period:
6 teachers and head teacher mobilites to participate in conferences on EST
4 teachers to participate in courses in innovation and creativity
10 teachers to Job-shadow in partner schools
Description of activities:
Teachers participated in seminars concerning developing EST ( Education in Sustainable Teaching), Courses in innovation & creativity;
Job-shadowing in partner schools: Goal for job-shadowing was tightening the bonds in our network, getting more teachers from both partners to network cross-borders in the future, and more teachers to benefit from the results obtained through our European partnerships.
Methodologyused in carrying out the project: study, experiments, network- and teambuilding, field- and observational study through job-shadowing, surveys and evaluation of results.
Short description of the results and impact:
Teachers, who have participated, are better equipped to face the challenges of improving the pupils learning and understanding of their future role as global citizens, through close cooperation with European partners, both on teacher and headteacher level. In the long run, pupils will develop positive intercultural sensitivity and skills as language, communication, ITC and knowledge about other cultures, through their teachers improved intercultural skills.
Sustainability, mentally and physically is gradually becoming everyday element for all students and staff.
Longer term benefits:
A visible impact on our teaching practices in everyday school-life, for the benefit of the outcome of our pupils studies.
Learning from practitioners and specialists and developing new cross-borders networks will continue to improve our work in educational areas as: Sustainability, International dimension, Entrepreneurship, Team-building, Innovation and Creativity.
Continuing on developing the cultural sensitivity and skills of our students.