eTWINNING PROJECTS: MY IDEAL SCHOOL 22-23 / 23-24

The project was based on the new European Bauhaus: everybody would like to work and study in beautiful, inclusive and sustainable schools. It also dealt with some goals in the Agenda 2030: health and well being, quality education, gender equalities and sustainable cities and communities. The main aim was being able to live this eTwinning experience in this perspective so it was agreed that teachers' and students’ meetings would be held once a month to share this experience as much as possible TOGETHER.

There were 9 teachers and 194 students working together and the places involved were:

ITALY

Lamezia Terme

Pescara

Telese Terme

SPAIN

La Pola Siero

TÜRKIYE

Akdağmadeni

Gönen

Karesi

Konak

Merkez

AIMS

To enable our students to learn different education systems, schooling and cultures.
To ensure their socialization by online meetings, collaborative tasks
To teach them by cooperating with other students
To improve communication and speaking skills
To improve basic English skills
To support our students to have self confidence
To teach them sharing their knowledge,opinions,dreams and storie
To use innovative applications, teaching techniques and Web 2.0 tools
To improve cooperative teaching and learning by integrating technology and Web 2.0 tools
To encourage our students to be creative

Introductions came first.

Then we started our work.

The students and the teachers completed a presurvey.

These are THE RESULTS FOR THE TEACHERS' PRESURVEY

In order to revise and learn vocabulary related to school, the students made word clouds.

All projects must have a logo that identifies it, so it was time to think about ours.

We wanted to compare our schools and the different schools systems in our countries. In order to get it we agreed that each team would make a presentation including the following points:

School is compulsory from the age of… to the age of….
Opening and closing times
No. of subjects they study
No. of students per class (on average)
No. of teachers in the class
No of the lessons per day
Length of a lesson
No of breaks
School week days
School holidays
Afternoon clubs/lessons
School orchestra
School choir
School facilities
Labs
School canteen (if any)
School fees( if any)
School assessment ( marks/grades or letters)
School system(stages in the system)
Tests and exams

UNFORTUNATELY, AN EARTHQUAKE HIT TURKEY AND SYRIA SO WE STOPPED WORKING ON OUR PROJECT OUT OF RESPECT FOR OUR COLLEAGUES SINCE THEY HAD TO CONCENTRATE ON THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND STUDENTS.

WE'RE SURE THAT WE'LL CONTINUE WITH THIS WORK IN FUTURE YEARS.

2023-24

THE SCHOOL YEAR 23-24 STARTED AND WE DECIDED TO CONTINUE WITH THE PROJECT. UNFORTUNATELY, NOT ALL THE TEACHERS OR STUDENTS WERE AVAILABLE SO NEW ONES GOT INVOLVED.

This time the places involved were:

ITALY

Lamezia Terme

Pescara

Telese Terme

Terni

SPAIN

La Pola Siero

TÜRKIYE

Bandirma

Beykoz

Karesi

Our project board at school to make it known.

We started from scratch so the first thing was introducing ourselves, both teachers and students.

Then we carried out the initial surveys for teachers and students.

These are the STUDENTS' OPINIONS

In November we held the first teachers' meeting to organize the project activities.

We continued with some or the original ideas and we kept the materials prepared by the students that started the project.

Logos were made in order to create a common one.

We made word clouds about vocabulary related to school in order to create an online exhibition.

THIS IS OUR ONLINE EXHIBITION

We made presentations to compare the school systems of the participant countries. The ideas was to make a quiz about them and use it in the students' online meetings.

We used the forum to discuss three topics:

MY IDEAL SCHOOL

A GOOD TEACHER

WHAT SCHOOL WILL BE LIKE IN 50 YEARS' TIME

Each topic was assigned to different students from each school in order to form international teams and was mentored by 3 teachers that motivated the students and asked them questions.

In December we met our Turkish and Italian friends. We had lots of technological problems, but we managed to show our educational system and to learn about theirs.

In order to celebrate Safer Internet Day, the teams watched videos and read documents so that the students could ask multiple choice questions on the forum so as to create a quiz to play together on online meetings. We chose the topic: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / VIRTUAL REALITY vs AUGMENTED REALITY.

This is the GAME that came out with all the questions.

Teachers also met this month to plan the next activities.

- Inventing a flag for our ideal school

We worked individually, we decided if we wanted to draw it or use digital apps. When they were ready, we voted and chose our favourite one.

We chose David's as the best one to represent us in the competition.

These are all the flags that we created.

These are the flags chosen by all teams.

AND THE WINNER:

- Inventing a slogan

We worked in pairs. Each one suggested a slogan for our project and then we voted to choose the one that would represent us in the competition.

The slogans we came out with:

1. Your education is your future. Make it fun!

2. A project that bonds schools together.

3. Everything gets better when we work together.

4. My ideal school is cool.

5. Studying and working to develop a better school for all.

6. The school is better if you put all your heart and soul.

7. The project that improves schools.

It was agreed that each school would suggest 2 slogans and these are ours:

MY IDEAL SCHOOL IS COOL

EVERYTHING GETS BETTER WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER

These are the slogans chosen by each team to enter the competition:

RUNNING SLOGANS

AND THE WINNERS:

- Making word clouds with vocabulary related to school

We worked in pairs or in groups to make them.

These were our contributions:

- A COLLABORATIVE ALPHABET OF KIND WORDS AND RULES AT SCHOOL

We worked in 3 groups and each one suggested a word for a letter.

This month we met our Arzu's and Rita's students from Turkey and Italy. We played a KAHOOT ABOUT OUR COUNTRIES so we had lots of fun and learnt a lot.

In April teachers' met to see how activities were going on and organize new ones.

- A collaborative BROCHURE about our ideal school

Each team would work on a different aspect of it.

- A collaborative ANTHEM / POEM ANTHEM / POEM about our ideal school that became two songs later on.

SONG I

SONG II

- EUROPE DAY

We watched some videos, then students wrote some True/False or multiple choice questions on the forum for a game that would be played online.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/be-heard/elections

https://elections.europa.eu/en/how-elections-work/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3u0wOBBcc

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/eu-enlargement_en

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2023/749767/EPRS_ATA(2023)749767_EN.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_WvUp4r_Cck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7dloiuNSM

https://elections.europa.eu/en/why-vote/

We had a final meeting with Arzu's and Maria Grazia's students in June to play QUIZ ON THE EU. We had lots of fun.

One of our Italian partners made games about the EU.

CROSSWORD

MATCH CAPITAL CITIES & COUNTRIES

Following the curriculum, the Spanish students had to plan their summer holidays and they worked with the countries involved in the project.

Finally, Pedro visited 3rd ESO A/B Bil. to explain the project to them.

Both teachers' and students filled the post-surveys in and these are the results.

TEACHERS' OPINIONS

STUDENTS' OPINIONS

COMPARISON BETWEEN PRE-SURVEYS AND POST-SURVEYS

TEACHERS'

STUDENTS'

Hard work is always rewarded, so we got the NATIONAL and EUROPEAN QUALITY LABELS!!!!!