Also, the well-established relationships results in collaboration in future Etwinning projects and arrangements to establish sisterhood between our school and those of some partners, possibly future Erasmus+ as well.
DESCRIPTION - 1000 characters Our Project involves an interdisciplinary work consisting in the study of cultural themes in different disciplines,being 10 partners from Turkey,Romania,Jordan.Stds recognize/introduce topics of Cultural Heritage,which is the identity of our society,through various activities: Demonstration,Virtual Tour,3D Studies,Web 2.0 tools,Digital Materials,Exhibition,Ejournals etc.This is done by presenting topics related to subjects in curriculum.We have opportunity to get to know diff cultures through partners' work participating in project.Stds have opportunity to showcase work/learn from each other,get to know each other virtually via internet tools (emails,videoconference, etc).We also share/learn about culture/customs,about our common links/differences in culture and heritage by playing Kahoots/Quizzes of partners and studying their presentations.We do this through Twinspace with each partner having own/common pages. Our project is of improving culture,being about recognizing various culturesWe aimed to introduce and promote cultural and historical legacy and explain its importance,improve language skills, raise awareness protecting cultural heritage,increase respect/dialogue between cultures,boost std creativity,cooperation,communicative skills and self confidence, dialogue between different cultures, using web tools more actively.enable them to present own products,ensure they use technology suited to age,promoting culture having fun.Partners' work is examined in class.Products are:an exhibition,evaluation,ebooks,common songs/videos.Std recognize heritage, understand,care about it,transferring cultural awareness to other stds.
LINKS TO PROJECT OUTCOMES - 1000 character
My username is carmenmirela, and my password is carmen70. All pages relevant to our project are included in the document in the section "Other Documents". The links to Edmodo class for flipped/blended learning: https://www.edmodo.com/public/intensive-english/group_id/27212789, or https://edmo.do/j/p6dqak, class code 53ehmt.
OTHER DOCUMENTS - 3 documents PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY - 2000 characters I work very hard with students from several classes, very dedicated and thrilled, inclusive children from foster homes; being different from classic teaching, involving various age/skill learners, physically and digitally on Edmodo Class. First students prepare info about themselves, publish it on Twinspace. Being divided into groups, their task is to gather info and create multimedia presentations about topics selected. In the end students develop language skills, curiosity, enthusiasm for English and other languages, are strongly motivated, meet new friends. Students and teachers learn to work with colleagues from European+ countries. All outputs are made via various ICT tools. On completing activities, students improve communicative skills, are more confident, know more info about their own and their partners' cultures and values. Learners use resources such homepages, guidebooks, photos, maps, presentations, websites; make presentations and organise their own work, photos, collages, videos, exhibitions. They become capable of analysing, comparing, eliciting and gaining knowledge from each other, finding differences and similarities, expressing themselves in different ways. Students have opportunity to use English outside the classroom, improve their language and ICT skills, know geography, history, culture of their own and their friends' countries, become more open, tolerant, self-confident through sending products on their school, town, major figures etc, sending e-mails, chatting; making and playing e-games, presenting descriptions of personalities,cuisine,folk traditions and so on; writing texts, editing videos and collages, preparing collective as well as numerous common e-books. We apply Integrated, flipped, blended, BYOD, VAK, PBL learning according to the range of multi-faceted curriculum areas addressed, students' capacity features and age or learning styles. We apply Integrated, flipped,blended,BYOD,VAK,PBL learning according to the range of multi-faceted curriculum areas addressed, students' capacity features,age, learning styles.Personalized/differentiated instruction, authentic, peer and inquiry-based
learning are also employed,
CURRICULAR INTEGRATION - 2000 characters The subjects/groups in which students elaborate materials are those whose teachers are cooperating in Project, those assisting us belong to departments of English, Arts/Crafts, Technology, PE, Music, ICT, Economy and Job Training, primary school, librarian, parents. It is implemented in an optional class approved by School Board,"Projects", Counselling, 'ScoalaAltfel'. The study consists in the development of original, creative materials in English by students such as posters, articles, short plays, videos, powerpoint or visual presentations etc. Such contents are included in annual planning of each subject involved, materials created are uploaded on various social media, in Twinspace to spread them in educational community. Students’ works are shown in school assembly hall on special days in which cultural activities are held, take part in a competition, are awarded certificates in a Ceremony. All products are documented on Twinspace and used as educational material in Primary and Secondary school curricula. The multidisciplinary learning methodology is appropriately tailored to our studies, encompassing varied fields of study.
COLLABORATION BETWEEN PARTNER SCHOOLS - 2000 characters We teachers and professional associates communicate mainly on Twin Space, Teacher Bulletin Board, Forum, by messages on the same platform. The tasks are transparently placed on the pages. The students with great enthusiasm work on this project which really has a lot of tasks, to which we painstakingly work and respond with completion of all assignments. We also appeal to Edmodo class regarding every task before and during distance learning during lockdown. Twinspace as a platform for communications is safely perfect. Students communicate by mails on Twinspace, too, on Forum threads, accessing the project by personal usernames and passwords, permission acts being received beforehand. We also hold online whatsapp and zoom meetings with our e-pals. Through the use of web tools for preparation of posters, logos, outputs, by palying partners' quizzes and Kahoots, I also introduce students as well as parents with striking parts of the project through presentations on the smartboard in the mediaroom, PCs and also on their mobiles in Edmodo Class. We teachers and professional associates communicate, share all works on Twin Space, in the common Ebooks of our school, as well as the final common e-books like calendar, covid comic book, song, recipe book, idioms book, coding activities, breath in campaign, flipgrid, mosaic collage etc, working in transnational and mixed teams. As a result and by means of Twinspace, a wider view of each country through more disciplines and cultural themes is achieved and friendship relationships between schools are well established. General collaboration is only positive, the founder, co-founder, partners, students all are eager and willing, polite, respectful in carrying out tasks, implementing suggestions, putting forward advice, complying with Netiquette. etc.We also have Whatsapp o rZoom online meetings
with students, which is found extremely enjoyable. Our project encompasses 10 teachers,101 students,1 guest from 3 countries. https://www.ourboox.com/books/mirasimiz-gelecegimiz-our-legacy-our-future https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/9/89/089/77089/files/b6711eb60.docx https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/966247 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/710166 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/587445 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/710191 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/919924 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/834971 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/807534 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/797800 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/881330 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/934260 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/965292 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/751786 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/948734 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/560331 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/927490 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/870668 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/710368 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/752895 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/597219 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/forum https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/ourlegacy-ourfuture
USE OF TECHNOLOGY - 2000 characters We improve stds' competences of using ICT tools by exploiting a wide pallette such as:Canva,Edpuzzle,Emaze,Prezi etc.Stds are made aware of ICT potential in education appropriately,using/developing skills in the use of ICT,and are made aware of Safe Internet Use/Copyright.Stds and teachers also communicate,cooperate,exchange and share info via web tools.These are made use of for:creation of murals with presentations of team/school/ town/country;identification of partners' locations (GoogleMap);creation of posters/logos and common ones to disclose project to educational community;creation/editing/sharing videos of
presentations and Topical assignments;creation and play of Egames(Kahoot,Classtools, Learningapps,Jigsaw);creation of School common Ebooks and cooperative documents (Adobe Spark,GoogleSlides) with the planning,process,results and dissemination;planning and organising;surveys;analysis of results for self-reflection and project sustainability; celebrating SID,Etwinning,Mother and Children Days.A list is included in Documents section. The page related to ITC tools provide wide scope for both teachers and students to strengthen their knowledge and usage of a broad array of tools used by our partners, tutorials, together with some evaluation of tools devised by our students, all leading to great opportunity to boost our web tools lot. https://padlet.com/carmenmirelabutaciu/656doyic8zjguwcx https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/712401 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/870668
RESULTS, IMPACT AND DOCUMENTATION - 2000 characters Project-based learning, flipped/blended educational strategies, collaboration among teachers and students, digital, communication, intercultural, linguistic competences are all intellectual outputs developed and enhanced throughout the course of our project. The activities are all regarded as gripping, enjoyable by our students, receiving an utterly positive, encouraging feedback from parents, who are permanently informed, by other teachers in the school, the headmasters, local community through dissemination processes.The impact of its outputs can be tremendous, comprising so many schools,students, outputs, activities etc. Last, but not least, the human, humanistic and humane resources, the results and assessments are only of top quality due to high achievements. We are firmly determined to promote and disseminate it further on in local media, educational platforms, paper or digital newspapers, magazines in Romania so our colleagues benefit from the experiences, results, and expertise of Etwinning Teachers and the marvelous works of our dearest industrious, earnest, thorough students who so passionately put in hard work and deep genuine commitment in carrying out our project aims. I can assert firmly that Student-Centredness is the key-feature of this project. We get to know Europe by developing creative materials in English during the school year and in Edmodo class, both before and during lockdown distance learning, focusing on the study of culture, using ICTs tools to elaborate and spread materials, thus raising our students'
awareness and genuine understanding of other cultures, developing a multi/inter/cultural competence, together with an authentic sense of European citizenship. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/709188 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/752895 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/752921 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/752802 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/511377 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/709191 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/pages/page/667689 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/77089/forum https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/ourlegacy-ourfuture
OTHER AWARDS (IF APPLICABLE) - 2000 characters was awarded the eTwinning National Quality Label by National Support Service and was awarded the eTwinning National Quality Label by National Support Service. As there are dissimilar deadlines of our partners, the project has not received any award so far, but our school video was voted among the first 5 to be officially uploaded during the competition My Story with Etwinning performed by Etwinning Romania, of which attainment we are all overhappy, taking into consideration it has been the second year we take part in Etwinning projects, whereas for some of my students it has been the first time,
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I with my students from several classes work very hard in this project,as do in many other projects,and first and foremost,they are very dedicated and thrilled,with something different from classic teaching.Project- based learning,flipped and blended,collaboration among teachers and students, digital,communication, intercultural,linguistic competences are all intellectual outputs that are definitely developed and enhanced throughout the course of all project.The activities are found gripping and enjoyable by our students,we receive an utterly positive and encouraging feedback by students' parents,who are permanently informed,by other teachers in school,headmasters,as well as local community through processes of dissemination.I firmly believe it is neatly organised,tasks are suitable for students' peculiarities,workload is appropriate,the impact of its outputs could be tremendous, comprising so many schools,students. General collaboration is only positive,founders, partners,student,all are eager and willing,polite and respectful in carrying out tasks,implementing suggestions, putting forward suggestions,advice.Last, but not least,the
human,humanistic and humane resources,results and assessments are only of top quality.That is why,I sincerely recommend this project for high achievements,and we are firmly determined to promote it and disseminate it further in local media,educational platforms,newspapers and magazines,both paper and digital ones in Romania, so that our colleagues could find out and learn from the experiences,results and expertise of project Etwinning teachers,and the marvellous works of our dearest students who so passionately put in hard work and commitment in carrying out its aims.Student-Centeredness I assume is the key-feature of this project. Our project holds as aims to develop English and ICT skills,use technology productively, apply Web tools in courses; finding about various cultures, students realise the vital role of technology, motivated to use webtools by conscious use, enhance awareness of digital literacy, foster intrinsic motivation, ingenuity and achieving, its principal goal being to raise awareness of reciprocal respect and knowledge about their and their partners' countries, items which are connected to our curriculum. Students of 11-15 acquire this view on their country and Etwinners' schools and work with Etwinners to strengthen cooperation, both oral and written English practice, communication and computer abilities. Workload is scheduled in compliance with age level and syllabus monthly, with all activities being documented on TwinSpace. Pupils acquire skills of English,digital media,communication. Being suggested leading prompts, by supplying solutions and producing materials in English, they present and share knowledge via Webtools.
Other My contribution Together with my hard-working students, we attend and successfully accomplish all the activities. I take on the role of guide, monitor as well as learner, roles which are easily interchangeable with my students in their documentation processing and works. I facile take on propositions from etwinning friends regarding suggestions of solving tasks or improving the project level of quality. Along the way, informal tutorials are being held concerning completion of tasks or web tools usage and features, to which I constantly participate. Moreover, we keep strong bonds with all etwinning mates, despite language barriers, answer quickly and wisely to whatever problem that might come up along the project course and keep an overall enthusiastic appropriate working environment and atmosphere. Besides, my students' works are highly appraised by our peers, inducive of their thoroughness and perseverance. Gathering efforts towards similar goals together our European and Etwinning+ partners has been a uniquely momentous experience for us. Furthermore, the deeply ingrained relationships lead to collaboration in future Etwinning projects and arrangements to establish sisterhood partnerships between our school and those of some partners, apart from the one with Ordu school realised upon previous Etwinning collaboration with founder Asli Celik, with whom I also write an Erasmus+ application, other possibly other Erasmus+ as well in the future. I accomplish elatedly all tasks, communicate in the whatsapp group. I also compile the outputs into a virtual exhibition and its video, as well as many common and collective works.