DIGITAL IN-DEMAND DICTIONARY
Digital in-demand soft skills dictionary
понеделник, 25 октомври 2021 г.
Short-term joint staff
training report
Within the Erasmus plus project
‘Soft skills-key to career success, 2020-1-BG01-KA229-079053_2, the short term
joint staff training meeting took place in Comiso, Italy, from 13 to 17 July
2021.
Ten teachers including one
principal, coming from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland met the Italian teachers’
delegation from Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore ‘Giosuè Carducci’ after a long
pandemic period which made it necessary to reshape the previously scheduled
meetings.
The aim of this transnational
meeting was that of sharing good practices in “Teaching Methods for Inspiring
the Students of the Future”.
During the first day of
workshop, in respecting Cooperative learning and Peer tutoring approaches, the Italian
group presented all partners the idea of using a brand new application called ‘
App-Erasmus’. This application was created by the Italian partners by thinking
about a way of involving either students or teachers in building up a sort of
logbook of our Erasmus adventure , by keeping a record about places, traditions
and habits shown by the partners taking part to this project. App-Erasmus will
grow up during the remaining time of the project and the next mobilities.
Inside it, the puzzle pieces showing the flags of Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and
Italy represent the partner countries. The hosted partners could easily
download it through a file shared by Google drive. By clicking on the flag of
each country it will be possible to travel virtually through traditions, art
and customs of each partner country, which students and teachers can experience
themselves during their mobilities.
The idea was that of moving
from the virtual to the real, from the pandemic time of imaging how to move
into a better world, to a real world of great things to do for the future.
Students guided by the teachers have to upload news, music, pictures, videos
about all those aspects.
During their call conferences,
partners specifically had asked Italians to explain them how to use Thinglink,
an education technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos,
and virtual tours with additional information and links. Actually, Thinglink
was the application used to present a video about introducing Italian students
to the project members, the presentation video had been shared in Facebook and
E-twinning.
So,
on the second day of workshop, Thinglink platform was introduced by using a
tutorial video. After creating a Google account, each partner guided by Mrs
Zago, who showed the peers all the tools contained in the application, could
practise in creating their own products. In the end , everybody displayed the
results of their research, shared opinions and made questions that could help
the entire group.
On the third and last day of
workshop, partners discussed about "Survival kit", decided about
possible dates for next mobilities and shared clear rules regarding students
accommodation, transportation, costs. Those rules will be written by the
leading country in this project , Bulgaria, shared, accepted and signed by all
the partner countries before mobilities. We used technology to record,
presented videos about the hosting and hosted schools, submitted a final
evaluation and suggestion questionnaire online for recording the outcome of the
meeting . We found many benefits and challenges of peer tutoring for teachers
and students. As next mobility to Romania, from 3 to 9 October, will include
students in Romania, the leader of Romanian group , Mr Dragomir suggested about
what to work on, involving students before moving to Ploiesti. As a matter of
fact, one of the planned activity in developping life skills will be a fair in
Ploiesti exposing products created by partners responding to principles of
creativity, originality, sustenability. The fair will also be a competition and
the best product will win a prize.
Next scheduled mobilities will
be:
Bulgaria 7-13 November
Italy 12-19 March
Poland 3-9 April
Romania 1-7 June
This schedule could be changed
if the pandemic situation will request it.
Besides workshops, as shown in
the agenda previously presented to Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish partners, they
took part to a guided tour of the town of Comiso, visited Gulfi winery where
they could learn about winemaking systems and taste some of the most popular
wine produced in the South-eastearn part of Sicily, experienced Chiaramonte
Gulfi extra virgin olive oil served on bread, they had a typical Sicilian lunch
at Ganzeria farm, they visited the Castle of Donnafugata and spent the last day
at the seaside where at Kaukana Sailing Club, visited the fisherman village of
Punta Secca and saw Casa Montalbano, where the famous tv serial is set.
Three days, a short but very
fruitful time in order to decide how to cooperate, work and involve students in
the process of developping life skills and make them successful people in their
career. The impression was positive as we had been working as a team, sharing
experiences and helping each other in finding solutions to problems. The
evaluation questionnaire will tell us about strengths and weaknessess of this
first meeting, but we are already satisfied as Italian group gave its best in
hospitality, as the Mediterranean, Greek origin has handed down from father to
son.
събота, 17 ноември 2018 г.
ANNUAL ETWINNING CONFERANCE, WARSAW, POLAND
Annual eTwinning conferance - Warsaw, Poland
25.10 - 28.10.2018
https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/402910
https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/464659
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https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/402933
https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/464659
https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/402914
https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/402911
ups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/402931
https://groups.etwinning.net/65942/pages/page/402933
неделя, 17 юни 2018 г.
Children's Conference project
Children's Conference project
We met at the eTwinning conference on Creative and Cultural Education in Munich last year in May. I not only remember the special and entertaining conference opening by the Paper Theatre group and its »Children's Conference« project that you've been promoting and supporting ever since but also I started working on some good ideas.
During the years I have been working on creative ideas with my students through project works
“Art in foreign language learning” – https://stvs-sts.blogspot.com/2014/07/blog-post.html
We have come to the conclusion that learning a language is not just grammar, it can become something interesting and fun.
I am confident that cultural education encompasses a wide variety of practices, the potential to develop skills and approaches that students need: the ability to ask questions, to make connections motivates me to choose a professional development seminar in Munich last year.
In my everyday teaching process, I have always tried different techniques to stimulate my students in accumulating new ideas and creative paths in their learning. From the conference in Munich I got a lot of experience and inspiration. When I came back I put ideas into practice. I started working on the questionnaire or the topic of children's rights and the rights to express themselves.
The motivation to participate in the project corresponds to the results of the current project work and supports the School Development Strategy Plan, in particular: to encourage pupils to think creatively and independently, to argue convincingly, to take responsibility and make decisions, to work in a team.
In class I worked using the questionnaire book by selecting some of the questions related to our English syllabus. These are: What is happiness according to you? How do you imagine the world in 20 years? Which are the most important things you need to have around you and the things you do not need? What sentence would you write in capital letters on a wall that everybody could read? Write a letter to the government with questions and proposals!
After a series of lessons, I summarized the topics, then trough a lotto approach the students got questions to think on and present their view. They self-organized groups of interests and collaborated with how to present their ideas. Posters, flip-chart, computers were their tools. The classroom turned into a creative space. As a result, students prepared very interesting presentation “School in 20 years". Some of the students were overwhelmed by the idea to create a logo of a creative classroom. It was a sign for every product. The students not only painted, drew and decorated but also developed strategies on how to present their works to the other school students.
They made an exhibition and not-stop rolling PPP in the lobby of the school. That attracted everybody’s attention and my students were very happy to give explanation of the products and answer questions to the audience.
The most effective methods were enquiry based approach, problem solving, critical thinking, project-based approach, presentation and teamwork; speaking techniques – practice and prepare, organize material in the most effective way, let your personality come through, use humour, tell stories, use your voice and hands effectively, grab attention; creative writing- Accurate and concise use of language (vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, ease of readin
I shared my ideas with colleagues from my school PMPG “Kl. Ohridski” Montana. It was cross work because some of them also had nice ideas and good approaches in developing cultural education. Most of them worked with the kids in clubs: Unicef, club “Europe”, English language-easy and interesting, Traditional art festival etc. Step by step through art, discussions, problems solving and variety of social events we tried to reach students confidence and self-esteem. Our students are at different age, that’s why we always gave publicity to our work – school website, posters, blogs. Some of the most remarkable events are:
-Traditional annual carnival where students present their hand made masks and costumes and compete into two categories for artistic make up and costumes.
- MultiTalent Quest, where Gergana Tsvetomirova Tzvetkova from the 11th grade of the PGP presented our school remarkably, demonstrating knowledge, talents and skills during the second round of the competition, conducted entirely in English, in Blagoevgrad. She was chosen among the 64 finalists of the first round of the competition, where she successfully expressed herself through a creative video-CV and a successful online English test.
The organizers of the event from the American University in Bulgaria gave special thanks to the Montana PGPM for encouraging their students to participate in projects that develop creativity, critical thinking, teamwork and leadership skills of young people.
The organizers of the event from the American University in Bulgaria gave special thanks to the Montana PGPM for encouraging their students to participate in projects that develop creativity, critical thinking, teamwork and leadership skills of young people.
- Deputy for a day –Euroscola, Strasbourg- Students from our school won the contest to participate in the debates of Euroscola. They discussed six main themes: environment and renewable energy; security and human rights; 2018 - European Year of Cultural Heritage; the future of Europe; migration and integration; Youth employment. As MEPs, they showed confidence, dedication, and perfect English. Their participation showed their peers from all over Europe that our school prepares future leaders and gives them opportunities to realize themselves.
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