Practices

Pathway to success
Comenius Regio Partnership
Institutions involved:
Key words: Staff competences
Description:
Thematic Field: ECEC
Partner Regio 1
Coordinator organisation: Municipality of Šumperk
Partner organisations: Happy Kindegarten, pre-primary school in Šumperk
CZ -Czech Republic Pedagogical-psychological counselling of Olomouc
region
Partner Regio 2
Coordinator organisation: Municipality of Prievidza
Partner organisations: Pre-primary school in Prievidza
SK -Slovakia Educational and psychological counselling and
prevention centre, Prievidza
This was a pioneering project on how to develop teacher mentoring skills by using
ICT. Its main objective was getting a better understanding of how learning with ICT
tools takes place in open learning environments and how it can be enhanced. The
specific scope of the project was the role of teachers and tutors in such blended
learning arrangements and the question to which extent self-organised learning is
possible and how guidance and feed-back to the pupils can be organised in the
best way in order to allow well customized learning for each pupil. The project
therefore did not only have a didactic side but also touched aspects of staff
resource economy and school organisation.
The project activities were carried in four stages: First, to analyse the practice and
conditions of ICT use in self-organized learning and the specific requirements of
support for learners offered by the school; Secondly a guidance and feed-back
model, the “Learn Desk” concept developed to improve students' results in
schoolboy increasing access to the teachers during the day as a help-desk and be
complementary to the availability of regular teachers for student support. Next, the
“Learn Desks” were tested and finally the results were disseminated in work-shops
addressed to the regional and national open learning community in both countries.
Project results are available for download on the project website and the teachers in
Varberg produced a short film describing how the participating schools worked with it.
Award:
National Comenius award in the Czech Republic in 2012 and EST star project.
Duration:
2009-2011
Webpage:
http://www.sumperk.cz/cs/mesto-sumperk/projekty-eu/ukoncene-projekty/cestickak-uspechu.html;
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2009-1-CZ1-
COM13-01936
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