Quality eTwinning projects 1

MY EXPECTATIONS

My name is Juan Antonio Rincón Carballo. I am the coordinator of the International Programmes of my school, an eTwinning ambassador in Extremadura (Spain).

1. I would like to become more familiar with quality criteria and learn about new creative ways of approaching them.

2. Design collaborative activities that have an impact on our students.

3. The benefits of pupils' participation in eTwinning projects are manifold: improving language skills, opening their minds to other realities and cultures, problem-solving skills, improving their digital skills, etc.

Best regards.

1.1 COLLABORATION SWOT

In order to start your work upon projects with students, you have to realize what virtues and flaws it may contain. Therefore, it will be reasonable to make a SWOT analysis of this work.

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An online tool that will certainly help you in this procedure is the VisualParadigm in which you can perform digitally a SWOT analysis and share it with your project partners. Tutorial. Link to Padlet.

1.2 WHERE INNOVATION STARTS

The passage discusses the importance of integrating eTwinning projects into the school curriculum, and highlights the importance of incorporating international collaboration into project work. 

 

 An eTwinning project is alive and evolves throughout its duration. After its completion, you may find that you have covered more content from the core curriculum than you would have if you had done the project alone. The projects section of ESEP provides inspiration and new ideas.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY

Review the core curriculum for the subject(s) you teach and select the topic that can be creatively enriched through project work and international collaboration.

Make a post on the forum for teachers of the level on which you teach your pupils and let them know which topic you would like to choose for innovation/creative development in an eTwinning project.

Describe your innovation idea and you may also comment on other participants posts/ideas (up  to 300 words).

Link to Padlet.

1.3 UNITY IN DIVERSITY

Collaborative projects are a good way to get to know students better, because they allow for students' autonomy. This allows for cohesive work and satisfaction with the project. Some students think more slowly, while others think faster. To better understand which students are thinkers, it is helpful to look at the Types of Thinking article. 

 The main points of the passage are that students' aptitude (including ourselves!) depends basically on the temperament, and that there are different roles that students can take on in class projects.

More articles:

- Are you a leader or a follower?

- Temperaments.

- Personality types.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY

Go through the personality tests of the previous section and think about the students you would like to carry out the eTwinning project with. Try to describe at least two of the individuals and assign them roles in your future project (of course you may describe more). Please do not share students’ real names!

Make a visit card of the project participants. Describe his/her temperament, personality traits, skills and whatever comes to your mind and is important for the project and assign a role in the project that may suit this student perfectly. Have a look at the following example.