Proactive learning: improving real life skills due to inclusive task-based activities

                                   

 

Theme:

The Schools have a wide variety of students showing diverse educational needs (highly gifted and talented, low ability, at risk of social exclusion, early school dropout, low professional qualifications, precarious economic situation, ethnic marginalisation, …). In this sense, it's necessary to incorporate into the classroom active methodologies that allow students to acquire the key skills and competencies for their integration in the environment and future professional life, as well as make more attractive the contents that are explained in class.
The Erasmus+ project "Proactive learning: improving real life skills due to inclusive task-based activities" is an educational project based on the need of three European educational institutions to contextualize learning in the real world. All the schools involved in it agreed to a new teaching methodology, so both objectives - contextualizing and developing new methods - were the basis for the project

 

 Objectives:

1. Increase creativity and motivation in students and teachers.
2. Promote informal learning outside the classroom.
3. Implement a new teaching methodology based on projects in order to improve cross curricular competencies.
4. Promote inclusive education using a practical and real life based methodology.
5. Address talented students and students with learning difficulties with multidisciplinary tasks: real inclusion and differentiation
6. Improve the students´results in the competences in Maths, Science and Foreign Languages. 

 

Schools involved:

- IES Santo Domingo (El Ejido, Almería - Spain);

- Liceum Plastyczne im. Piotra Potworowskiego w Poznaniu (Poznan - Poland);

- Agrupamento de Escolas de Pinheiro (Termas de S. Vicente - Portugal).

 Activities:

- Diversity, a whole streng – mobility in Spain

- Games that favour inclusion (inclusive methodologies) – mobility in Portugal

- Contextualization of contents – mobility in Poland

- European projection (open, dinamic, and permeable school) – mobility in Spain

- Acquisition of the key competences – vitual meeting

 

 

Results:

1. Implementation of a new teaching methodology based on real life contexts in all the institutions.
2. Improvement in the academic results of the students involved in the project.
3. Include in our schools the European dimension of education.
4. Promote inclusion and involvement of students with special needs. 

 

Dissemination Strategy:

The dissemination strategy mainly contemplated the use of institutional websites, social networks, etwinning platform and outreach sessions with the work of students and testimonials from participants.

 

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