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COMENIUS 2010 – 2012

“LOOKING AT THE SAME VIEW FROM DIFFERENT WINDOWS”

 

MEETING IN ITALY 13th-18th MAY 2012

 

• Sunday 13th May

Meeting families/students/teachers

18,30               Welcoming at secondary school “J. Piaget”

-       Greetings by headmistress

-       Presentations

-       Supper at school

 

• Monday 14th May

07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J.Piaget”

 

Starting the Comenius project activities (Poland-Germany-Spain-Italy)

18,00             Welcoming partners at secondary school “J. Piaget”

-    Greetings by headmistress

-    Presentations: students/families/schools

-    Presentation of Comenius project with display of work done

19,30             Aperitif

20,00             Supper: students with families, teachers at “Circolo Endas”

 

• Tuesday 15th May

07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J. Piaget”

 

08,00             TEACHERS: meeting of project at primary school “A. Manzoni”

STUDENTS: activities at school  “J.Piaget”: teachers will give a talk on all places to be visited

10,00          Meeting teachers and students  with local authorities at town-hall

 

STUDENTS and TEACHERS

12,00           Departure for Porto Venere  and Palmaria island, a walk with guide

 

19.00 the teachers  take the students to families at secondary school “J.Piaget”

20,00          Supper teachers at Restaurant-Pizzeria “Da Sandro F.lli D’Angelo”

 

• Wednesday  16th May

07,50 the families take the students to teachers at secondary school “J.Piaget”

09,00         Attend multiethnic festival at amphitheatre in Viale Alpi

12,30          Lunch at primary school. “A.Revere”

14,00          Departure by train for “5 Terre” a walk with guide

 

19.00 the teachers  take the students to families at  secondary school “J. Piaget”

20.00          Supper teachers: Restaurant “Il Ristoro nell’aia”

 

• Ø Thursday 17 th May

07,50 the families take the students to teachers at  secondary school “J.Piaget”

STUDENTS

08,00           Lia Museum

10,00           Activities on the project

 

TEACHERS

08,00          Attend lessons at school

 

13,00          Lunch at Secondary school “J.Piaget”

 

STUDENTS and TEACHERS

14,00         Departure  for the visit to S.Terenzo,  Lerici, Tellaro, a walk with guide

 

18,30          Closing and farewell by headmistress

20,00          Supper   students/families/teachers at “Locanda Alinò”

 

• Friday  18th May

 

06,00          Departure Polish students and teachers from  school “J. Piaget”

07,50          The families take the German students to teachers at school “J. Piaget”

 

Teachers meeting about project

AGENDA:

1. 1. Activities that were to be done
2. 2. Final report

1. Activities that were to be done

	Activities	Germany	Spain	Poland	Italy
1	Logo contest	Complete	Complete	Complete	Complete
2	E-mails/pen friends	Complete	Complete	Complete	Complete
3	Travel book	Complete	Complete	Complete but Barbara needs to send it to Andreas to put on the website	Complete
4	Web site	Doris is putting photos on the website	Some photos need to be uploaded...Ana’s going to send them to Andreas	Barbara’s going to send photos to Andreas	Complete
5	Song	Complete	Complete	Complete	Complete
6	One day in my life	Complete	Complete	Music needs to be readjusted	Complete
7	Travel agency	Complete	Complete	Complete	Complete

 

	Activities	Germany	Spain	Poland	Italy
8	Videoconference	Complete	Complete	Complete	Complete – upload certificate of achievement – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and other photos
9	Life in other countries	Work to be done on Thursday	Work to be done in Spain when the teachers return End May	Work on Thursday	Work on Thursday

 

1. Final report

SUMMARY

Our project was based on students’ and teachers’ work. Students  had a chance to develop their world view by experiencing a lot of practical activities focusing on different  cultural aspects like  presentations, movies, travel brochures, geographical books, common cultural photograph albums, exhibitions of their drawing of the new cultural information they got during the project. They  used new technology as a tool for sharing the different activities. The children also prepared  songs and folkdances and  performed them in public. By means of all these activities, students learnt different cultures, ways of life, attitudes and this helped them to have empathy and tolerance towards different points of view. Teachers had a chance to improve their methods by comparing the education system of each country. Each teacher prepared documents, presentations, power points that contained information and explanations about the education system of his/her country. They discussed   the similarities and differences and talked about the usefulness of them. During the visits they observed lessons so that they could note  approaches, techniques, methods, lesson plans and material  used by  the colleagues from the  different countries and share those experiences and apply the relevant data to the student’s curriculum and lessons. The results of all our work have been put on the website, represented in organized exhibitions and published in the local press.

OUTCOMES

Identifier	1
Type	Website
Title	www.comenius.bimamue.de
Description	The website is divided into different sections: What’s Comenius project? General plan Meetings Project works Partners Web links
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	25/10/2010
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school/Secondary school
Language	English

Identifier	2
Type	Song
Title	“Looking at the same view from different windows”
Description	The song is formed by 4 stanzas in different languages: German, Polish, Spanish and Italian and by a chorus in English. Each country recorded its stanza for a CD and designed a part of the CD cover. The song was performed in public by all partners in Italy at the closing project festival... 1000 copies of the CD were made and distributed in the four countries. A video-clip was made from a live performance held at the project’s conclusion in Italy at the multiethnic festival.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	2010-2012
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school/Secondary school
Language	English, German, Polish, Spanish, Italian

Identifier	3
Type	Mail
Title	“Pen friends”
Description	Each country corresponded with other countries by post or by emails in English. They have transferred this correspondence to popular social networks (facebook) and voip media like skype.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	2010-2012
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school/Secondary school
Language	English

Identifier	4
Type	Book
Title	“Travel book”
Description	In the travel book there is information compiled by the students in English about different cultural, geographical, historical aspects and customs of each country. It travelled from country to country where it was exhibited in the different schools. It is also posted on the website.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	2010-2012
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school/Secondary school
Language	English

Identifier	5
Type	Video
Title	“One day in my life”
Description	Each country prepared a video about  a typical day in a student’s life in English. These videos were then posted on the website.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	April-May 2012
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school/Secondary school
Language	English

Identifier	6
Type	Poster
Title	“Travel agency”
Description	Each country prepared a poster with characteristic information  about its country: food, music, literature, sport, art, geography etc. This was then posted on the website.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	October 2011
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school/Secondary school
Language	English

Identifier	7
Type	Logo contest
Title	Comenius 2010-2012 “Looking at the same view from different windows”
Description	Each country prepared 3 logos to represent the project for the website and the students of all schools voted the best logo. The logo was subsequently used to represent the project on the website, on the CD and elsewhere.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	October-December 2010
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Primary school
Language	English

Identifier	8
Type	Video conference
Title	“Quiz”
Description	The students of each country prepared a list of questions about their own country. Then they organized  a quiz in video conference using Skype.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	11/05/2012
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Secondary school
Language	English

Identifier	9
Type	Table
Title	“Life in other countries”
Description	All students prepared a table to compare life in the different countries on the basis of what they learnt over the course of the project.
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)	16/05/2012- end May 2012
Target group(s) potential beneficiaries	Secondary school
Language	English

EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE

-Improving students intercultural awareness

-Exploring the common values among the European countries which make all of us “one” and realizing the differences which make each of us “unique”

-Created friendship between students and teachers

-Increased motivation for learning foreign languages

-Personal development of students and teachers

-Increased language skills and ICT skills

-encourage the younger generation to develop important  European family values like having a wide range of world view, being open to new ideas, being creative, tolerant, good at communication

-Creation of a European area of learning by means of spreading our teaching methods to other partner countries

-Increased quality of school management

PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIVEMENTS

-Promote active European Citizenship: to make children understand and get closer to the different cultures of the countries involved in the project.

-To show our children different ways of life

-To improve their communicative skills in the English language

-To use new technologies in an ever changing world

-To stimulate the learning of the English language

-Reinforcing the awareness of belonging to the European culture by paying attention to the historic and cultural heritage

-Developing of self confidence, being tolerant to other opinions

-To motivate children and allow for greater personal development

-To improve the methodology of teaching: observing  lessons in different countries

WORKPLAN AND TASKS

The project was initially planned for seven partners. But when the project began there were only four partners  and at the first project meeting in Regensburg, some activities were revised to reflect the new partnership and to avoid duplication  of activities.

The activity entitled “My life as a pizza” fell under the activity entitled “A day in my life” which depicted a typical day in the life of students in partnership countries.

Activities like the cultural box and young explorers formed part of the travel book project. The video-clip planned for the  travel agency was done as “a day in my life”.

Exchanging folk dances and songs was not done via internet as planned initially but it was organized at the multiethnic festival held with all four partners present in Italy.

Other activities were added in order to create a common image for the project, such as the project logo which was planned in each country and the best one was voted by all the students involved.

COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION

The cooperation and communication between the participating organizations involved was good and all organizations were equally involved. We communicated by internet e-mails, phone calls, text messages, Skype. During the meetings, we programmed, compared and evaluated the results of our activities together.

PARTNERSHIP LANGUAGE

English

EVALUATION

-progress monitoring

Regular evaluation sessions

-main conclusions and consequences of the monitoring and evaluation

The organizations involved monitored and valued the partnership during the meetings and during the staff meetings in each school. The organizations were enthusiastic about the project: cooperation and results.

RESULTS/PRODUCTS/OUTCOMES ACHIEVEMENT

To a high extent

AIMS/OBJECTIVES ACHIEVEMENT

To a high extent