COMENIUS PROJECT
INFORM OF THE FIRST MEETING
Everybody fits in
Date: from 14th to 21st of November, 2009.
Place: Instituto de Educación Secundaría “El Bohío”. Cartagena. Murcia. Spain.
Those presents:
From Bulgaria:
Mrs. Anastasiya Nikolova. (Coordinator and headmaster).
Mrs. Teodora Tasheva. (Teacher).
Mrs. Polina Petkova. (Teacher).
Mr. Kosta Kyuchukov. (Student).
Mr. Petko Petkov. (Student).
From Lithuania:
Mrs. Loreta Jusiene. (Coordinator).
Mrs. Laima Dyburiene. (Deputy – headmaster).
Mrs. Violeta Tunkuniene. (Teacher).
Mrs. Rita Mikneviciene. (Teacher).
Mss. Greta Siauciunaite. (Student).
Mr. Laurynas Butrimas. (Student).
From Romania:
Mrs. Corina Roberta Pavel. (Coordinator).
Mr. Traian Ovidiu Pintiliescu. (Vice-principal)
Mrs. Luminita Mocanu. (Teacher).
Mr. Cristian Toncea. (Teacher).
Mss. Denisse Miruna Epifanov. (Student).
Mss. Anca Ioana Hanu. (Student).
Mr. Constantin Cristian Marin. (Student).
Mss. Adriana Georgiana Almăjan. (Student).
From Poland:
Mr. Piotr Podemski. (Coordinator).
Mrs. Sylwia Popis. (Teacher).
Mrs. Kamila Gądek. (Teacher).
Mr. Julian Przybylski. (Student).
Mr. Krzysztof Kwiatkowski. (Student).
Mr. Rafal Mikolaj Derentowicz. (Student).
Mss. Ewelina Kęciek. (Student).
From France:
Mrs. Sophie Bernier. (Coordinator).
Mrs. Marina Barontini. (Teacher).
Mss. Typhanie Montes. (Student).
Mss. Manon Menotti. (Student).
Mss. Célia Pagano. (Student).
Mr. Mickael Saro. (Student).
From Spain:
Mr. Juán Molina Amorós. (Headmaster).
Mrs Mª del Carmen Martínez Arroyo. (Coordinator).
Mr. Joaquín Alcaraz Quiñonero. (Teacher).
Mrs. María José de Jodar Beteta. (Teacher).
Mr. Salvador García Espinosa. (Teacher).
Mrs Mª Carmen García García-Vaso. (Teacher).
Mrs. Esther Gutiérrez María. (Teacher).
Mrs. Joaquina Hernández Manuel. (Teacher).
Mr. Juan Manuel Ibáñez González. (Teacher).
Mr. Antonio Jiménez Morata. (Teacher).
Mrs Maria Lorente Martínez. (Teacher).
Mr. Pedro Martínez López. (Teacher).
Mrs Brígida Martínez Vicente. (Teacher).
Mrs. Mª Dolores Paredes Gracia. (Teacher).
Mrs Mª Pilar Navarro Martínez. (Teacher).
Mr. Nicanor Parra Frutos. (Teacher).
Mrs. María Mercedes Rodríguez Pelegrín. (Teacher).
Mr. José Joaquín Sánchez Cantos. (Teacher).
Mr. José Luis Sánchez Méndez. (Teacher).
Mrs Ginesa Zamora Saura. (Teacher).
Mss. Carmen López Morales. (Student).
Mss. Mª Luz López Morales. (Student).
Mss. Olaia Frauca Fagoaga. (Student).
Mr Juan Soler Navarro. (Student).
Mss. Sandra Ortíz Caparrós. (Student).
Mss. Isabel Martí Nadal. (Student).
Mr Jose Manuel Navarro Pozo. (Student).
Mss. Marina Bermudez de Castro Rubio. (Student).
Mr Victor Francisco Belchí Martínez. (Student).
Mr Iñaki de Goiri Alvarez. (Student).
Mr Pedro Saura Zaplana. (Student).
Mr Juan Miguel Sánchez Martínez. (Student).
Mss. Celia Barcelona Izquierdo. (Student).
Mr Jesus Vilar Cánovas. (Student).
Mss. Raquel Dato Torregrosa. (Student).
Mr José Tomás Hernández. (Student).
Mss. Mirian Gonzalez Ramirez. (Student).
Real Situation of the partnership of the project:
Associated schools:
- PROFESIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, PROFESSOR TZVETAN LAZAROV
Address: 71 A Bratia Bukson str
Postcode: 4004
City: Plovdiv
Region: Plovdiv
Country: Bulgaria
Website: www.pgmtplovdiv.info/
Fax: 0035 932671143
Telephone: 0035 932639435
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- PANEVEZYS JUOZAS BALCIKONIS GYMNASIUM
Address: RESPUBLIKOS 47
Postcode: LT35170
City: Panevezys
Region: Panevezys (Apskritis)
Country: Lithuania
Website: www.jbg.panevezys.lm.lt
Fax: 0037 045461421
Telephone: 0037 045461421
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- COLEGIUL NATIONAL "NICOLAE BALCESCU"
Address: B-dul Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Nr 182
Postcode: 810125
City: Braila
Region: Braila
Country: Romania
Website: www.cnnb.braila.astral.ro
Fax: 0040 239615333
Telephone: 0040 339105943
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- 2 PRYWATNE GIMNAZJUM I LICEUM
Address: Zielona 14
Postcode: 05-500
City: Piaseczno
Region: Mazowieckie
Country: Poland
Website: www.szkolamarzen.pl
Fax: 0048 227572899
Telephone: 0048 227572899
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- LYCÉE DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE
Address: Avenue de la Méditerranée
Postcode: 13600
City: La Ciotat
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Country: France
Website: http://www.lyc-mediterranee.ac-aix-marseille.fr
Fax: 0033 0442830255
Telephone: 0033 0490531120
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Coordinator school:
- IES “El Bohío”
Address: Barriada de San Cristóbal s/n
Postcode: 30310
City: Cartagena
Region: Murcia
Country: Spain
Fax: 0034 968314770
Telephone: 0034 968519753
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Operational objectives of the Comenius Program:
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of mobility involving pupils and educational staff in different Member States (COM-OpObj-1).
- To improve the quality and to increase the volume of partnerships between schools in different Member States, so as to involve at least 3 million pupils in joint educational activities during the period of the programme (COM-OpObj-2).
- To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice in lifelong learning (COM-OpObj-4).
Concrete aims of the Partnership:
- Motivate towards the learning of other languages through the carrying out and display of joint projects and living with the foreign families.
- Foster the use of new technologies both individually and in the classroom through its use as main communication system in the development of the project.
- Increase the feeling of European Citizenship.
- Break down topics, stereotypes and prejudices by the direct contact with the reality of each of the participant countries.
- Improve the teaching practice through the exchange of experiences.
- Promote equality between sexes and cultures with sports, literary, artistic and leisure activities performed together.
REPORT:
The activities and their temporal distribution appear in the programmes of the meeting for students and teachers. In this report we are only going to detail the topics that we have talked about and the agreements that we reached.
In this first meeting we have met each other since we did not have a preparatory visit. Our main objective has been to review the application form of our project to introduce all changes needed due to our final partnership,to concrete some actions and finally, to reach all the agreements which will help us to get our aims. Besides, we have clarified all doubts that co-ordinators could have about organization or economic aspects of our Project.
MONDAY 16/11/09
- CORRDINATOR MEETING: Exchange of impressions. Doubts. Proposals.
A minimum number of twenty-four people must go abroad to attend meetings from each school in these two years, as it was set in our application form and according to the economic help that we have received. We agree that meetings should last one week (from Saturday to Saturday) and we will try that four teachers and two students attend each one, because we consider that the attendance of teachers has a higher repercussion at school than those from students, but we have also agreed that if it is possible, the number of students should be increased, depending on the number of students that the hosted school can take. The increase of the number of students should not decrease the number of teachers who must attend the meetings.
It is compulsory for the co-ordinator to attend all meetings and it has been settled in this way for all general co-ordinators from the OAPEE last December, due to the importance for controlling, evaluating and monitoring the project. This aspect can not be voted because it does not depend on us but it is a guideline of the project that has a specific objective. In the final memory that the co-ordinator school makes and sends to Brussels, its compulsory to include and reflect that aspect. This is the reason why the French co-ordinator has changed, being Mrs Sophie Bernier the new co-ordinator instead of Mr Moserrat Roca due to his impossibility to attend all our meetings.
Students who travel abroad to meetings will stay with families of other students working on Comenius in the hosted school. In their relationship with those families, students must behave correctly, respecting the rules established by them all the time. In the same way, when these students attend the hosted school to follow the scheduled activities, they must respect the rules established by the school.
To select people attending the meetings abroad, all people agree on the fact that it is very convenient to give importance to the work that they are doing, the interest to learn foreign languages and to communicate with other teachers- students from other schools. We should try that as many people as possible attend meetings, and because of that we should try to include and vary the people to participate as much as possisble.
- TEACHERS MEETING: Checking our application form. Economic aspects of the Project.
We checked our application form in detail. In first place, the general co-ordinator informed about those schools which are on the formulary of the project but are not on our partnership, these are the Turkish one and the Italian one. Turkish school could not present their formulary because they have to rest a year between one project and the following one. The Italian school got two Comenius projects and had to leave one, and it was ours. So that now we are six schools instead of eight.
All of us are public schools except for Poland, which is a private one and much smaller, 92 students and 23 teachers, from Bulgaria 1009 students and 54 teachers, from Lithuania 780 students and 67 teachers, from Rumania 821 students and 47 teachers, from France 1024 students and 100 teachers and from Spain 1300 students and 104 teachers.
About the summary (point 5.1): We decided how important is that in the programme of our meeting we set work sessions but also enjoyment and cultural visits to increase the feeling of European Citizenship and generate bonds between us. We really want to have a School Project instead of the project of one small group of teachers but one of the main difficulties in public schools could be to involve people, because everybody has a lot of things to do, so many of them could refuse to have more extra work. However, we have selected an interdisciplinary project which allows us to work from all subjects within our classes, which favours the implication of all teachers being actually a school project. We have to take into account that not everybody can help with common works because they cannot manage with foreign languages or their subjects have nothing to do with them. We can really have a School Project if we work at two levels; on the one hand we can work at every school generating individual works and on the other hand working together on our common works. Working at an individual level helps not only with the promotion of Comenius inside each school but it also increases the number of students and teachers involved.
We decided that it could be nice to establish a line of work for different subjects, because it could help some teachers who want to participate in the Project but they do not know very well how to do it. So we proposed these topics for some subjects:
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES TO WORK WITH STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT:
MATHS: students will take data from each country related to economic aspects, energy consumption, and so on to make comparative studies based on statistics.
GEOGRAPHY: students will compare the different features of each country taking into account flora, fauna, geographical reliefs, population, migration, birth and mortality rates….
HISTORY: Students will study and share information about important celebrities related to each country’s history.
MUSIC: Students will study and share information about important musicians, composers, music bands, etc from each country.
LANGUAGE: Students will study and compare the origin of their own language with the others.
- Students will prepare a basic phrase book of the different languages of the Comenius project.
- Students will compile a list of funny and entertaining tongue twisters in each language.
- Students will record words with particular features of phonetics.
LITERATURE: Students will analyze the work of their most important novelists.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE (English and French):
- Students will gather information of different celebrations, gastronomy, sports, sportsmen and sportswomen, singers and so on.
- Students will prepare model exams for the other students to complete and they will make them according to the COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES.
COMPUTING: Students will prepare PowerPoint presentations, and they will share the information or the result of the different activities using videoconference as a tool of communication.
HEALTH STUDIES: Students will compare the different health services from each country taking into account what each national service offers and what they cover.
ARTS: Students from each country will analyze five masterpieces of each country of the project. (they do not necessarily have to do the ones from their own countries).
Another interesting activity could be one picture description made to the other student, who will try to paint what he reads in the description.
BIOLOGY: Students will share studies about specific environmental problems which their countries suffer from, such as water quality, drought, acid rain, sea and river pollution and so on.
PRIMARY EDUCATION: Students will create posters and different crafts related to the countries taking part in the project.
We continued dealing with the context of each school (point 5.2) and checked the objectives of the partnership (point 5.3). We checked our objectives and although these cannot be changed, the co-ordinator highlighted the fact that we can change some of our works if we consider that it is important to get our aims, because it is just a project, so that we can add more topics or change one for another if we consider that it is convenient. We agreed to write these objectives at the beginning of all our reports and to have a report after each meeting.
About distribution of tasks (point 5.4), these are the main ideas:
- We will also distribute the tasks between us in a clear and fair way
- Meetings will take place in one school each time and we will always establish a program previously in which not only work time will set but also leisure and cultural activities in order to achieve our aims.
- Every institution will have to do the common tasks in the same language, English.
- Each one will be led by an institution each time, making them responsible for collecting the information in the agreed time and the elaboration of the final product.
- At every meeting we will evaluate our work and the way in which we are achieving our aims. The co-ordinator of the hosted country will elaborate conclusions and will send them to the co-ordinator of the project to include them in our Web page.
- After each meeting the coordinator of the project will elaborate a report in which all information given, agreements taken and conclusions of the evaluation will be written. This report will be sent to all coordinators and they will translate it to their own language, so that everybody at each school can be informed of the development of the project. These reports will be also in our web page in all languages apart from all common and individual works.
- The coordinator in each institution will supervise all works which are being carried out in their school and will send them to the coordinating institution in the agreed date. They will be also responsible for common works, which must be ready for each meeting, with all the points agreed, in English and with good quality.
- During meetings, teachers will tutor the pupils: checking their papers (medical insurance, passports) and their integration in the families, preparing them to present their researches and so on.
- The School Governing Body of every school will include the project in the General Annual Programming, fact that will help with the coordination and it will support teachers and pupils who attend the meetings.
- The pupils will carry out the tasks guided by their teachers.
- All of us will answer the evaluation surveys when the school coordinator runs them.. Each time, a different country will elaborate the report of the evaluation.
Spain is responsible for the Web page of our Project and has been in charge of our first common work, “Our Country, Region, City, School and Educational System”, preparing previously the guide to elaborate the work and later the document to collect the main information during the display of our works, which was useful to compare the information from different countries and talk about it. This country will be also responsible for the voting of our logo on line through our web page.
We postpone the distribution of the other tasks till we check the activities we have to do.
Cooperation and communication (point 5.5) is checked as well, and we emphasized these:
- Three annual general meetings will be held so that they will six on the whole.
- In between them, we will communicate via mail to do the tasks, exchange information and plan next meetings.
- At each school, all teachers have to be informed about the development of the project in each general meeting; this is the responsibility of either headmaster or coordinator.
Impact and European added value (point 5.6). The real impact depends on the level of implication of teachers because it is the way to make the students aware of the importance of the project. Therefore we cannot be a small closed group, enjoying the experience of Comenius, we have to work to involve as many people as possible at each school, asking their contribution at the extent they can offer. The more people, the richer the project will be, because everyone has something important to offer to others. Here we set some ways to spread out our Project:
- Inform our partners during teacher meetings.
- Inform parents at the beginning of the course.
- Inform parent associations regularly.
- Having a notice board at each school.
- Showing our works at school.
- Inform abut our meeting before and after the attendance.
- Inform the media and other neighbour schools.
- Linking our Web Page to the Web Site of our schools….
We checked the objectives of the programme (point 5.7) and decided to write them at the beginning of all our meeting reports. Points (5.8) and (5.9), evaluation and active involvement are postponed to another day because we need to spend a long time on them.
We analyzed how the project will be integrated into the curriculum and learning activities of the participating pupils in each of the participating organisations (point 5.10)
This Project must be part of the Annual General Programming in each school. Due to its interdisciplinary character, teachers of all subjects should be encouraged to participate in it by the coordinator and headmaster of each institution. Teachers involved in the project will set in their own Programming of the subjects what type of activities are going to be dealt with the classroom and in which time they will be developed. All these activities will be evaluated as the other ones and a product (power point presentation, drawing, posters, maps..) will be made always to share with the partners of your own school and from the other schools.
Each teacher will choose the levels and groups to work with on the project. In this way a high number of students will be involved in the project. Working in this way, with whole groups, we ensure that all kinds of students are involved, not only good students but also immigrants, disabled, non- motivated students and students from all educative levels.
When the same group of students is working on the project with different teachers, they could work on the same topic from different views, elaborating only one product with all researches; if languages teachers are involved, this product could be translated into another language in order to share it with all partners of the project.
Apart from working at school level elaborating individual products, all schools of the partnership have to work together elaborating the common works stated in our project, in order to contrast our researches and get conclusions which will help us to know each other better and to achieve our goals.
Each common work will have a country, which will will be responsible for it, this team has to prepare the guide of the work previously, stating all the details that could be important such as the time of the exposition, kind of product and so on, in order to have similar results from all countries.
At the same time, a teacher at each school must be in charge of the work, checking that the work will be done in a good way for the date established. Depending on the topic of each common work, the teacher in charge should be one who his/her subject is closer to the topic. Students who have elaborated these works should have priority to attend the meeting and present their results. These common works will also be included in The Programming of the subjects of those teachers who have prepared these works.
We also have to try to involve those students who are not working on Comenius directly in their classes because their teachers are not working in the project. For that, we will do some activities in which all the school is going to be involved, for example: organizing a competition to choose our logo, voting the final ones on our web and some more activities could be done throughout the time the parnership will last.
The co-ordinator school claims that it is possible and successful to work like that because it was very effective in its previous Comenius “You and me make Europe”
For dissemination and use of the results (point 5.11) we will work in the following way: The communication of our experience and our final products will be carried out at an international level through the project website and during the meetings, with the help of the mass media of the receiver country. At the end of the project, a DVD with all the products worked on will be released.
At a national level, the local institutions, websites as well as the ones run by the town council, the youth town council and the regional education ministry will be used. The project will also be spread by means of the local and regional mass media: press, radio and TV. Information booklets, exhibitions, written reports to the families will be made and the DVD will be sent to different organizations and other teaching institutions.
We are going to set a board with information of our project in all participating schools, on this board we will inform about our meetings, works and all important aspects of the project. Our web page will be also used as a mean of diffusion at schools and at the end of the course we can prepare an exhibition with all products, so all students, parents, teachers and staff can know more about our project, we will also invite the local media to attend in order to share our experience with people from our City.
All materials that we will prepare such as: questionnaires of evaluation, reports, products (individual and common ones) will be in our webpage in order to help to other Comenius teams that want to use them or check the way we are working on. These products could be also used by those teachers who are working with the same topics.
Families play a big role in spreading out our objectives because they host students during our meetings and value these experiences in a very positive way, so we must inform them about all the details of our project not only at the beginning of the course but also from time to time, so that they can be a good source of our work and goals through their own experience.
Our Topics (European citizenship and European dimension, Environment / sustainable development, and Intercultural education) and our Educational fields (Foreign Language, New Technologies, and Environmental Education) are wide enough to allow us to work in many different ways, and so it could help us to involve more partners at each school.
Activities (Point 6.1) and result (point 6.3) are left for another work session and we concentrated on economic aspects and difficulties we can find along the Project.
Regarding the amount of money that every country receives, it is different among us. It is due to our own National Agencies; each one has their own criteria and chooses between “more projects with less money” or “fewer projects with more money”.
By now, all of us have got the 80% of the grant and we have checked our duties to get the 20% left at the end of the Project. Some partners state that doing the 24 compulsory nobilities will be very difficult for them with this 80%, because their school cannot give the 20 left in advance for attending meetings, and it could mean that they would lose 20% left if they do not find the way to get enough money for doing these mobilities. When we organize a meeting we will be very careful with expenses, trying that the hosted school supports some cultural activities and their transport as well as arranging good prices at hotels and restaurants, booking in advance cheap menus. The Council Town can also help us and support some activities. Besides, the coordinator should check that the whole expenses are reasonable for teachers and students and inform all partners before the meeting.
About mobilities we agreed that teachers´mobilities have higher repercussions at school than student’s mobility and furthermore students have more opportunities to participate in this kind of activities than teachers. That is why, we arranged that we won’t increase the number of students attending a meeting at the expense of decreasing the number of teachers. The way for selecting teachers or students to attend a meeting is similar for all of us, it will depend on the grade of participation in the Project.
We find everything easier when the headmaster is involved in the Project in an active way. The Co-ordinator has to attend all meetings, because they are the main responsible person, they are in charge of the Project and going abroad is not a prize or a right but a duty, in order to check if everything is going on according to our application form so that we can get our aims.
WEDNESDAY 18/11/09
- TEACHERS MEETING: Dates and places for our following meetings.
SECOND MEETING: It will take place in Bulgaria, from 27th February to 6th March, 2010.
THIRD MEETING: It will take place in Poland, from 5th to 12th June, 2010.
FOURTH MEETING: It will take place in Rumania, from 17th to 24th October, 2010.
For the following meetings we will establish the place and the approximate dates, but we will wait till our fourth meeting to concrete the exact dates because we do not have all necessary information about the next school year by now.
FIFTH MEETING: It will take place in France, in January or February, 2011.
SIXTH MEETING: It will take place in Lithuania, in May or June, 2011.
In all the programmes of our meetings we will set work sessions but also enjoyment and cultural visits to achieve our aims and increase the feeling of European Citizen and generate bonds between us. The structure of the following programmes will be similar to the first one.
- TEACHERS AND STUDENTS MEETING: First common work, “Our Country, Region, City, School and Educational System”
Students from each country showed us their presentation in Power Point related to this first common work, which helped us to know more from each other.
Before these displays, the Spanish team had given a chart in which several questions about these topics were stated for each country. The objective was to increase the concentration of people during each display and to help us with the discussion after our presentations, to be able to find the similarities and differences among us.
All presentations were very interesting and they are in our Web page under the heading “Common Works”
- TEACHERS MEETING: Our web page. Reports of our meetings.
We checked our Web page, and all co-ordinators have our username and password so that we can edit and upload information for the administrators of our Page.
The co-ordinator of the Project showed us the structure of the reports that they made in their previous Comenius Project and we agreed to write them in the same way.
THURSDAY 19/11/09:
- TEACHERS MEETING: Proposed activities in our formulary. Responsible team. Dates.
We agreed with all the activities which were proposed in our formulary, although we could change or add some of them if we considered necessary to achieve our aims in the future.
To share responsibilities on our Project, we agreed that each team has to be responsible for one common work which is developed in each meeting. After considering different possibilities, we arranged that each country will be responsible for the common work that is worked in their country. So that, these are the responsibilities of each country by now:
1. Spain:
- Update our Web Page regularly and collect all our common and individual works for it.
- First common work: “Our Country, Region, City, School and Educational System”.
- Collecting information about votes of our logo from each school and inform about the winner logo.
- Write the report of each meeting in English.
- Translate the report of each meeting into its language.
- Write the conclusions of evaluations of the first meeting.
2. Bulgaria:
- Second common work: Which relationship has existed between our countries along history?
- Translate the report of each meeting into its language.
- Write the conclusions of evaluations of the second meeting.
- Send all individual works to the co-ordinated school to include them in our Web Page.
3. Poland:
- Third common work: Our environment. We are short of...?. Comparing our lacks. The guide of this work will be given to the partners in the previous meeting.
- Translate the report of each meeting into its language.
- Write the conclusions of evaluations of the third meeting.
- Send all individual works to the co-ordinated school for our Web Page.
4. Rumania:
- Fourth common work: What do we need to be successful in the laboral world?. The guide of this work will be given to the partners in the previous meeting.
- Translate the report of each meeting into its language.
- Write the conclusions of evaluations of the fourth meeting.
- Send all individual works to the co-ordinated school to include in our Web Page.
5. France
- Fifth common work: Survey: Health, alcohol and drug habits. Causes and solutions. The guide of this work will be given to the partners in the previous meeting.
- Translate the report of each meeting into its language.
- Write the conclusions of evaluations of the fifth meeting.
- Send all individual works to the co-ordinated school to hang them on our Web Page.
6. Lithuania
- Sixth common work: Our differences and similarities. The guide of this work will be given to the partners in the previous meeting.
- Translate the report of each meeting into its language.
- Write the conclusions of evaluations of the sixth meeting.
- Send all individual works to the co-ordinated school to have them ready for our Web Page.
Other agreements reached in this work session and concreted by email later have been:
- About next meeting in Bulgaria: The coordinators will inform Mrs. Anastasiya Nikolova, the headmaster of the Bulgarian school, about the numbers of teachers coming the meeting by 15th December. According to our previous agreements we should try to be four teachers. Each partner country will take 3 students to this meeting (more students might come if houses and host families can be found).
- About our second common work:
a) Students will be informed about the nature of their common work to be done in Bulgaria
b) 3 groups of approximately 6 students will be formed (one student from each partner country in each group).
c) The common work will be focused on history and relationships between our countries in the past.
d) Students will work in groups in three sessions of three hours each (1 session of ice-breaking activities and 2 sessions to prepare the product of their common work).
e) The host school will organise the ice-breaking session for each group and will provide the 3 groups with separate computer rooms for their work during the 2 work sessions.
f) The task of each group for the work sessions will be to prepare a PowerPoint presentation concerning the assigned subject (students will be informed about the specific subjects when they are in Bulgaria and not before).
g) The presentations will be presented to all the participants on a separate day as the final product of the meeting. Each group will have 30 minutes to present its work.
h) The quality of the presentations will be assessed by all the participants of the programme (teachers and students) using a special questionnaire during the presentation, which will be elaborated by the Bulgarian team in charge of this work.
i) After these three presentations there will be a longer break and then students meet in national groups in order to discuss their assessment of the presentations. Every national team must reach an agreement on the final assessment (number of points) they will assign to every presentation. The national teams will have 15 minutes for this discussion.
j) In the same groups (national teams) students are to prepare short speeches about what they have learnt from the three presentations. They have 10 minutes for the preparation. The speech will be made by one representative of each national group and will be no longer than 5 minutes.
k) The agreed points from the questionnaires will be calculated and the winning team will be given a reward.
- About our logo:
a) A competition to choose our project’s logo will be set at each school and as a result each partner school will have its winner logo. The digital characteristics will be 207 pixel x 80 pixel.
b) By 1st February all partner schools will upload their candidate for the logo of the project to the project’s website. The uploaded logo will be the winner of a national stage of the context that will have taken part in each school before, according to its own regulations.
c) By 19th February the partner schools will send the the results of their voting to the coordinator of the project to choose one of the six candidate logos, which will become the logo of the project. The results will show the percentage and not the number of votes in each school. The students of each school mustn´t vote for the candidate logo from their own country.
d) The coordinator of the project will publish the results of the voting on the website the 24th February and we will have our logo!!.
FRIDAY 20/11/09
- TEACHERS MEETING: Dissemination and evaluation of our project.
Dissemination: It is very important for our Project that people know about it, so here are some ideas:
Project’s Website, which must be linked to the Website of all partner schools.
Having a noticeboard at each partner schools.
Sending letters to parents each course to inform them about what we have done, and what we are going to do next.
Preparing a leaflet at the end of the Project with a summary of our aims, works and so on.
News on the media at each meeting.
Quiz at school.
Logo competition.
Choosing a Motto/ Slogan.
Picture competition of photos taken during our meetings
Informing other neighbour schools.
Evaluation: It is very important if we want to learn from our mistakes and improve our work, so we want to do three evaluations:
- Preliminary evaluation: In this one, we check the expectancies of people coming to a meeting.
- Post-meeting evaluation: We analyze our work and the development of the program, trying to check if we are achieving our aims.
- Annual evaluation: After each course we could know the impact of our project at each school.
Firstly, Carmen García informed us about the result of the preliminary evaluation that people coming to the meeting had filled. These results were very good and could be checked in our Website.
After that, we concentrated on post-meeting evaluation and discussed about what we want to evaluate. Finally we elaborated this questionnaire, which will be on our Website inside documents when it is ready. We did not have time to do this evaluation the last day of our meeting as we had wished but the coordinator of the project would send the questionnaire to the partners by email and when she has the answers, an inform will be prepared to take out conclusions in the following meeting in Bulgaria. These conclusions will be in our Website as well.
Meeting each other has been a marvellous experience. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY FOR YOUR WORK!!!!
Sign:
Mº del Carmen Martínez Arroyo
Coordinator of the Project
