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