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Comenius Multilateral School Partnership
Countries involved:
BE, NL, SE
Thematic Field: Teaching professions
Key words: Improving learning, Teacher competences, School leadership, Teacher
reflectivity
Description:
Three schools from very different parts of Europe with specific educational and
teachers from different disciplines worked together to introduce new didactic
methods, based on the latest scientific insights to cater for the specific differences of
students. The project tried such methods in order to achieve differentiation for
different groups of learners thus enhancing the motivation of the various groups of
learners. The project intended to works both ways, teachers will become more aware
what didactic tools to use for which groups of learners and the learners will learn
to select the approach which works best for them.
The two years are divided into four parts. The groups of students selected for the trial
period was measured at the start and end of each period. Evaluation took place at
the end of each period and was reported to the international team international level:
per period the evaluation and findings were used during the mobility moment of
members of the core teams. The evaluation of all partner schools per period was used
as the core of the visit the hosting school presenting its strong didactic point to the
visiting partners so the teachers got the opportunity to work with the colleagues of
their own discipline in order to exchange ideas gained during the preceding period as
well as try out the chosen didactic approach together.
The teachers were tested for their personal learning styles, this information was
passed on to the headmasters, enabling them to use this knowledge in their
leadership style to develop the school - to develop basic competences in defining
and dividing proper groups of students according to well-defined criteria - to develop
basic competences in guiding students to profit most from the knowledge of their own
learning style. Furthermore the teachers learn from each other: about the ways
how to divide students into different groups concerning their learning styles and other
specific criteria such as learning disabilities, ethnic backgrounds and non-native
speakers. They also got more experience in designing and implementing lesson plans
or didactic methods that address the different groups and are suitable for those
specific groups and were able to discuss and evaluate pros and cons in the classroom
situation.
Award:
EST star project
Duration:
2010-2012
Webpage:
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2010-1-BE3-
COM06-02369
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