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TTG esimene õpirändeprojekt
Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Tartu Tamme Gymnasium (TTG) is a municipal comprehensive school which provides education on primary, middle and advanced secondary level. Its specific focus lies on four branches: natural sciences, medical sciences, technological sciences and humanities education. The TTG development plan pays close attention to curriculum improvements, modern teaching methods and professional advancement. The school is very successful at teaching nature and technology but less experienced in humanities education. TTG has therefore decided to carry out a project within the Erasmus Plus Learning Mobility of Individuals programme to improve the quality of foreign language teaching, upgrade teachers’ IT skills and consolidate a greater pan-European perception in the school’s development activities. Over a two-year period, TTG intends to send six educational staff members abroad to develop their competence in communicative language teaching, English for academic purposes, intercultural communication, virtual learning communities and international project work. All participants are good communicators, self-motivated and eager to contribute to school's well-being. They appreciate the value of informal learning together with European colleagues of and in different cultures, recognising it as an invaluable supplement to formal learning. All six are predisposed to becoming active members of the school’s European team to initiate and maintain European partnerships and associated initiatives in the long-term. The purpose of project management is to assure that TTG attains goals set in the European Development Plan by enabling participants to fulfil their concomitant responsibilities. Practical arrangements for the mobility include in-school group training followed by individual preparation activities as required by the training course providers. The mobility activities are to take place in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Reflecting and reporting on the training courses, implementing new skills, dissemination of the project results and assessing its outcomes will be carried out according to the Erasmus+ Learning Mobility working plan and the learning agreements confirmed by the school management. On a personal level, taking advantage of the Erasmus Plus Learning Mobility of Individuals programme means professional advancement, which enables the participants to more fully develop their potential, improving the quality of their teaching, sharing their pedagogical experiences and working towards an improved modern learning environment through virtual collaboration with European colleagues. On the school level, the impact will be threefold: 1) enhanced competence and dedication of staff, 2) integration of a more pan-European perception in the school's development activities, and 3) improved reputation, inspiring confidence and self-esteem, in the eyes of parents and local community. The biggest winners, however, will be the students as their teachers, empowered with the knowledge of experience of other cultures, discover and employ novel ways of raising learning motivation and improving learning skills. To this end, European values along with the plurilingual and multicultural essence of the European Union will be brought closer to them through project work activities together with young people from other countries.
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