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INTERNATIONAL TEAMWORK AS A METHOD TO MAKE OUR SCHOOLS INCLUSIVE OF DIVERSITY
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our society of knowledge demands high quality training and education for everybody, which leads to a revision of our organizational and teaching methods at school, paying special attention to the pupils’ diversity and their context. Lower rates of school failure and the decrease of early dropouts from school must be priorities in our projects, especially when we come to the realization that citizens without basic qualifications are to be in socially marginalized, which bounds them to personal failure and hinders their community live. The main challenge in teaching is motivation, making our pupils aware of the importance of learning for their future. Dealing with different kinds of pupils, students with different needs and different intelligences (diversity in the end), is something to be taken into account if we want to capture our pupils’ interest and to guarantee their success.That is the case in our schools, where diversity is common in our classrooms, and failure, unfortunately too, especially for those pupils whose low performance, lower ability or difficult background does not allow them to reach the standards. Taking all this into account, new methods of teaching are necessary; therefore, we propose to use teamwork as a collaborative method to learn and at the same time to include diversity. In addition, working with schools in different countries, where different methods and educational systems are enforced and different kinds of students attend classes, allows us to project internationally our community and to include families as an active part of the project. What is more, being involved in different projects with European countries, through Comenius partnerships or Individual Pupil Mobility programmes, has been proved very positive concerning motivation, because it has provided new learning experiences for pupils (especially for those involved in IPM) and new methods of working (and teaching) for teachers and a greater families involvement in school life. And it is that what we pursue, and in the end, what could not be done without this project, higher motivation in our pupils, increasing their foreign language and ICT skills, increasing their eagerness to learn and look for a future, higher interest from our teachers in looking for new methods to reach their pupils and higher parents support in the process of education. Then, through the activities proposed for this project we aimed what have been said above, and these activities are: short-term exchanges of group of pupils, which allow 5 students to attend lessons and participate in different activities in a foreign country, incorporating their families in it, short-term training staff events, which will help teachers see and show different approaches for teaching and search new ways of dealing with diversity and long-term mobilites for pupils, which will allow some pupils spend three months in another country, attending lessons, enforcing the other activities mentioned. As a result of these activities, a model of didactic unit using collaborative methods to make our school inclusive of diversity will be made , to be used in our lessons (incorporating them into our official programming); an international magazine and a digital platform will be improved to disseminate what is being done and a lifelasting relationship among participants will be forged. Finally, All these activities are, therefore, focused on achieving our main objectives, which are: • To improve teamwork and collaboration between teachers of different subjects. • To incorporate new methods of teaching in our classrooms to deal with the different abilities, interests and expectations of our pupils. • To offer our pupils new learning experiences in a different language and in a different country. • To strengthen emotional skills in all areas of personality and relationships with others. • To help teachers learn different approaches of teaching their subject. • To improve interaction between families, teachers and pupils aimed to solve common problems. Objectives, which, could not be accomplished without this project.
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