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

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How you would like your school?

My Ideal school should have more lockers so the students can leave their schoolbag. It should be more break for the interval so the students can turn around the school and move in other classes

BeatriceD Lamezia from Rosa's team

My ideal school

Ensar GoreleOO from Gamze's team

I want personal lockers, classical Bells, cafeteria, good food and other foreign language teaching in my school

marco tinozzi from Marina's team

In my ideal school there are more after school activities such as music and sport but, Instead of choosing more popular sports, there are less known ones to open new passions for the students.

There are less homework to leave some free time to the students and every subject should have a pratic part where the students apply what they have learned

Edanur Arzu from Arzu's team

In my ideal school, there are a few classrooms, the teachers are cool and in the playground there is a basketball court, a Volleyball court and a giant swimming pool.

spola danielaas from Isabel's team

My ideal school is teach by doing different activities ,more didactic , do more excursion and where they learn and have fun . in it the teachers could send an exercise in each homework subject so that the children don get stressed for have a lot of of homework ,and. more have time to play , study , do sport or other activities

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A GOOD TEACHER

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A good teacher should..

My ideal teacher gives equal attention to all the students. She should believe in the students. She is also Supportive, warm, creative.

GökçeG Arzu from Arzu's team

My ideal school

MatteoC Lamezia from Rosa's team

My Ideal teacher Is a funny teacher Who makes even the most tiring subject in a fun thing and that don't assing many home work(not that my real teachers don't already do that)

lorenzod marina from Marina's team

My ideal teacher should be a patient and kind person, quite serious during lessons but humorous and friendly during recreational moments.

Furthermore, during the lessons he/she should make us passionate about the subject by involving the students and letting them speak and intervene, and above all he/she should motivate his/her students.

Finally, in my opinion he/she should use Digital devices and lets the students play same game to involve them.

sofiad 1m from Rita's team

My favourite teacher would be a really kind, nice and loving teacher who gives sweets and cuddles to all children ..!!

Kamila Angela from Angela's team

My ideal teacher should be prepared, calm, patient, empathetic, understanding, authoritative, affectionate and involve students to participate more in lessons. Should also listen to her students and encourage them to believe in themselves and improve.

WHAT SCHOOL WILL BE LIKE IN 50 YEARS' TIME

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My ideal school

What school will be like in the next 50 years?

benedettap 1m from Rita's team

In my opinion, in the next 50 years there will be many changes:

there will be robots and ologram as teachers; there will not be paper books but only tablet and multimedial desk; there will be virtual reality helmet to visit cities and museums on site.

valentina tinozzi from Marina's team

In my opinion, there will be more electronic materials in schools in 50 years.

Students will not use books or notebooks but will use tablets and phones for school activities digitally.

Homework will be done online and sent to teachers on platforms and tests will be done online with quizzes or apps that will be sent to teachers

spola noraos from Isabel's team

I think that in 50 years, school will be a little different, but not much. All the students will have a tablet or computer each. And, there will still be teachers in each class. I think it'll be very similar to the present.

alperen maço from Demet's team

I think after 50 years in schools, robots will start working And students can do anything they want at any time. I think many more things can change

giorgia telese from Maria Grazia's team

I think school will change a lot, there will no longer books but only tablets and screens. There will be many more robots used to work in place of janitors and teachers. We will study with VR viewers and homework cheeks will be digital.

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.

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3rd ESO C/D Bil.

2023-24

OUR FLAGS FOR THE PROJECT

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.