Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 52
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
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REFLECTING
EMPOWERING
DEVELOPING
BECOMING
ACTIVE
LIFELONG
LEARNER…
…is a project based on the theory of School
Improvement (S.I.) where the progress and
development of school itself, and education in
general, starts from bottom up. Through S.I. we
supported active lifelong learning, inclusive
practices, reduce of learner’s fail, elimination of
prejudice and xenophobia.
Our vision was to empower ourselves (teachers and
pupils) as lifelong learners using multiple ways and
tools:
learner's reflection
inclusive practices
collaborative learning
non formal and informal education
approaches and the study of culture –
tradition
Thus all 11 educational institutions (10 were
approved and 9 worked) from
Greece
Cyprus
Poland
Hungary
Estonia
Turkey
Slovakia (they decided to leave the project
after the first meeting)
Bulgaria
Romania and
Italy
with approximately 2800 pupils from 5 -17 and 200
teachers shared joy of collaboration within and
between schools and supported ways on ongoing
learning and teaching (Comenius/eTwinning
partners).
At this point RED BALL was supported as an
acronym because we aimed to transform learning
into joyful and likeable procedure, as the acronym
suggested. Through this collaboration we managed
to build strong connections and friendship between
participants (teachers, pupils, and wider lifelong
learning community), combating this way any
possible prejudice and xenophobia between
countries, establishing our European identity and
managing school improvement for all. For this
purpose, we studied, communicated, collaborated,
came closer with project meetings, used media and
i-technology, we implemented an ongoing and a
final evaluation of the procedure, disseminated our
work within and outside of schools, and produced
ongoing and final and dissemination products.
Briefly the Partnership mobilities/activities
undertaken:
2013
The first meeting was in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 25-31
October 2013 http://redball.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/5/8/24585270/agend
a_bu_1.pdf The topic was theorizing on inclusive
Education and Non-formal Learning (see
bibliography).
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