Official program meeting Bree

adapted version December 2010

Dissemination activity Comenius project - participating school in Valkeakoski - Finland

The Headteacher's article in the Valkeakoski City Staff Magazine - VIISARI Joulukuu 2010

Merry Christmas / Iloista Joulua! The star card, designed by Niko Armisto, 7-year-old pupil of Tietola School




About the Multiple Intelligences of the Headteacher at Tietola school, Kari Taberman ... Observe the Gingerhouse he made this year and decide for yourself!




Piparintuoksuista joulua ja antoisaa vuotta 2011
Kuluneesta lukukaudesta kiittäen
Kari

Preparatory work meeting in Bree

PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE

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1. Description Organization Pupil Council (Participation in the schools)
2. Description Organization Youth Council (Participation in the city)
3. Description case study Pupil Council
4. Description case study Youth Council

--> Completed questionnaires

1. Pupil Council: Finland Järvenpää - Latvia - Belgium - Norway - Finland (Tietola) - Turkey
2. Youth Council: Finland Järvenpää - Latvia - Bree- Belgium - Turkey

--> Casestudies
1. Pupil Council: Finland Tietola - Turkey - Finland Järvenpää - Belgium
2. Youth Council: Turkey - Finland Järvenpää - Belgium

--> Organization chart of City Council: Finland Järvenpää -

THEORY THINKING HATS OF DE BONO in different languages

1. English version
2. Turkish version
3. Latvian version
4. Spanish version

Provisional program meeting in Bree - February 3rd - 5th 2011

DRAFT PROGRAM

eTwinning project: Creative thinking @ school

We develop an eTwinning project for the preparation of the meeting in Bree - Belgium.
The topic is about pupil participation at school and youth participation in the city.
We'll use the structural cooperative consultation method 'the Thinking Hats of De Bono'.

PROJECT MEETING in Livani, Latvia from October 7th till October 10th 2010

--> PARTICIPANTS AND FORMAL PROGRAM

--> STRUCTURAL COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

1. Rally Table
2. Blind Sequencing
3. Who am I?
4. Copy me

--> What are MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES about?

1. Multiple Intelligences Profiles

2. Multiple Intelligences Test

• test paper



• personal MI-radar
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

3. Multiple Intelligences carrousel:

• workshop assignments



• photos in Moviemaker (Vimeo)

4. MI and Structural cooperative learning technique 'Who am I?'

• passport activity



• hidden identities



• passport identities Finland (Tietola)
  

--> MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES WORKSHOPS: END PRODUCTS

• MUSIC-smart: Learning songs from Finland - Norway - Turkey - Latvia - Spain - Italy
  


• SELF-smart: Cross-out poems from Finland - Norway - Turkey - Latvia - Spain - Italy - Belgium
  


• NATURE/LOGIC-smart: questions for 'Percentages mystery picture game' (summary)



• PEOPLE-smart: Blind sequencing flash-cards: Belgium - Turkey - Italy - Spain - Norway - Finland - Latvia
  


• BODY-smart:
  

Living paintings: Italy

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Living paintings: Finland (Tietola) + Belgium

--> PRESENTATIONS MEETING

1. Cross-curricular cooperation in the host school

1.1. Learning song activity = individual research experiment by Latvian student Anastasija Petrova

1.2. History and Handicraft collaboration project


1.3. Intercultural learning in the school library


1.4. Ecology project in Sciences classes


1.5. Participation @ Livani secondary school n°1: Expression of Body-smartness by

• pupils

• parents
  
  
  



• teachers
  
  
  

2. Procedures meeting

--> EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT MEETING (via PHOTO-EVALUATION)

• Turkish delegation
  



• Spanish delegation



• Italian delegation



• Latvian delegation



• Belgian delegation



• Finnish delegation (Tietola)
  
  

--> Dissemination: link to video of the local television about the project meeting

PPT meeting Latvia prep version

Just for those who want to know what to expect...

PREP Comenius seminar in Latvia - October 2010

Draft program UPDATE Sept 17th 2010

Dissemination activity Comenius project - participating school in Latvia

Dissemination activity Comenius meeting in Finland by Turkey

1. Here you can find the PPT, used for informing the Turkish colleagues about the progress of the project.

2. Here you can find the document, informing about Cooperative learning

Dissemination activity Comenius project - coordinating school

EPOS Vlaanderen organized a monitoring day for Comenius schools in Alden Biesen on May 18th. We presented our initiatives for embedding international - Comenius and eTwinning - projects in our school.

PROJECT MEETING in Valkeakoski and Järvenpää, Finland from May 5th till May 8th

--> PARTICIPANTS AND FORMAL PROGRAM

--> STRUCTURAL COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

1. Three-steps-interview
2. Timed-pair-share
3. Think-pair-share
4. Jigsaw (CLIM)

--> PRESENTATIONS USED DURING THE MEETING

1. Finnish educational system:


1.1. Comprehensive Education: Primary education by the Head of Education Department of Valkeakoski, Jorma Riikonen

1.2. Secondary Education by the Head of Järvenpään Lukio, Atso Taipale

2. Organizational chart Finnish schools

2.1. Tietola school in Valkeakoski

2.2. Järvenpään Lukio in Järvenpää

3. Good practices of cooperative learning in the partner schools

- Belgium: Communication via electronic platform Smartschool - Social activities for pupils, by the class tutors - eTwinning project: Well-being @ school: procedures of the project - results photo-evaluations by the pupils

- Finland Järvenpään Lukio

- Finland Tietola school: welcome song by the pupils

- Latvia - Italy - Spain - Turkey - Norway

4. Procedures meeting


--> PROJECT DEVELOPMENT IN THE PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: MONITORING

1. Finland Järvenpään Lukio - Worksheets: Getting to know Helsinki - Jigsaw method



- Info about tourist attractions in Helsinki: Cathedral - Central Railway Station - Uspenski Cathedral - Helsinki Rock Church
- Info about tourist attractions in Helsinki: Suomenlinna sea fortress - Kiasma - Ateneum Art Museum - the National Museau of Finland
- Other places of interest: location
- Tourist attractions: location
- Helsinki map part 1
- Helsinki map part 2
- Quiz about Helsinki tourist attractions

2. Belgium: Middenschool H. Hart: video Three-steps-interview (password: comenius) - index cards for forming international groups for the Three-steps-interview (national pavilions Word Expo 2010 in Shanghai)

--> EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT MEETING

Method: System representations: inventory + reflections Irène

Presentation and worksheets for the meeting in Finland

- peer assessment worksheet

- self assessment worksheet

- observation sheet (Three-steps-interview)

PREP WORK Comenius seminar in Finland - May 2010

- description of all prep tasks (what to do and how to do?)

- for the activity 'Getting to know each other' (on Thursday)

worksheet (T-chart)

- for the exchange of ideas about activities, initiatives and infrastructure, in place in the partner schools and enhancing cooperative work (on Thursday)

mindmap, clarifying the subtopics and with examples of ideas from the coordinating school


- for the activity 'What to see in Helsinki/Finland?' (on Friday)

information

PROJECT MEETING in Adana, Turkey from February 18th till February 20th

--> PARTICIPANTS AND FORMAL PROGRAM


--> STRUCTURAL COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES: description

1. Showdown
2. Teams-Games-Tournaments
3. Find the Fib
4. Inside/Outside circle
5. Corners

--> 4 PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING: PIES - prof Spencer Kagan - source

info documents, used during the CORNERS activity:

- Positive interdependence
- Individual accountability
- Equal participation
- Simultaneous interaction


--> PRESENTATIONS USED DURING THE MEETING

1. Presentation Turkey:

- educational system

- organizational chart











2. Information for subject-related subgroups:

2.1. Foreign Languages

- Belgium: programs of study and European Language Portfolio

2.2. Arts

- Latvia: Hobby presentation day

- Belgium:

* preparatory meeting Working party 'Day of the Middle School = CreActivity Day', using the SCL-method 'On Tour or Poster Carousel': PPT

* School newspaper - special edition (in Dutch) - with end products made by the pupils during the 'Dag van de Middenschool'

2.3. International dimension at school

- Latvia: International projects at school

- Belgium: eTwinning project in optional course 'European project work'

2.4. Religion

3. Procedures meeting



--> PROJECT DEVELOPMENT IN THE PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: MONITORING

1. Finland - Tietola school

2. Belgium: Pedagogical staff training day PPT in Dutch in the Middenschool H. Hart

- working process: SCL-method CLIM (Cooperative learning in multicultural groups)




- end products: visualization of school policies on

Equal opportunities




Languages




--> EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT MEETING

1. Method Placemat Emoticons











2. Method Individual Reflection:

- blank worksheet

- synthesis of the reflections

PREP WORK Comenius seminar in Turkey - February 2010

- programme meeting Turkey

- for the activity 'Getting to know each other': writing personal answers to the questions of the Proust questionnaire

- for the exchange of ideas and expertise in 4 thematic groups (Foreign Languages - Religion and Spiritual culture at school - Arts and Creative work at school - International dimension at school) concerning school activities and classroom practices: some suggestions