1. Jean Monnet Programme
Key Activity 1 “Learning EU at School”
Bringing Europe to School Teachers (Β.Ε.S.T)
Academic Coordinator: Dr. Foteini Asderaki
Lecturer, Department of International and European Studies
6. The aims of the project
to “Bring Europe to School Teachers” by
training and educating teachers of primary
schools on EU issues using ICTs (web 2.0,
social media, EDUglogster, wikis, blogs,
animoto, storybird etc)
7. to familiarize teachers with the existing EU
teaching material and encourage them to
contribute to the wider spread of it
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10. to develop new teaching
material such as an e-book and
an e-game
11. to “Bring Europe to Schools”
through teachers who will act as
knowledge multipliers towards
primary school 12 years old
children and their families.
12. The specific objectives of the
project, are:
a) to stimulate teaching and reflection activities of the
primary school level teachers and children in the field of
European integration studies;
b) to create a human network of teachers in promoting EU
material in their schools;
c) to enhance knowledge and awareness among teachers
in primary education and among European citizens;
d) to develop new didactic and pedagogical material and
tools for the ages of 9-12 years old;
e) to motivate teachers to develop innovative,
inderdisciplinary and pedagogical methods for teaching
EU issues at schools;
e) to promote teachers’ and in consequence childrens’
creativity for organising EU activities.
13. Selection criteria
Professional experience
Academic qualifications / training
ICT and foreign language skills
Interest on EU issues
Geographical dispersion
Teachers, languages’ teachers, musicians,
trainers, post-graduate and doctoral
students
14. Two training seminars
12-13 January 2013
EU structure and functioning
European Educational and ICT Policies
Diversity, fundamental rights and children's rights
Teaching Europe through Art
Greek participation in EU
Familiarization with web 2.0 and social media
applications (e.g EDUglogster, wikis, blogs, animoto,
storybird etc)
EU teaching material (teachers’ and kid’s corner)
EU games and European institutions’ simulation
exercises
15. 16-17 March 2013
Cyclades Museum: Teaching EU through
museum education
Talking with MEPs: “The Future of Europe”
Erasmus in Schools, e-twinning,
Asynchronous learning platforms
EU activities’ presentations by teachers
Consultation and proposals for the
improvement of the e-book and the e-
game