About projects

1. Erasmus+
Approaching Better Teaching
Županijsko stručno vijeće (online)
26th November 2021
By: Anita Lasić

2. About Us
- Don Mihovil Pavlinović Primary in Podgora
- English and Italian
- Leader of EU projects and Erasmus+ team
- Participate since 2008
- Four school-to-school partnerships
- Many seminars, courses, conferences…

3. Your opinion?
Have you already
participated in any
Erasmus+ projects?
What do you think about
Erasmus+ projects?
Go to: www.menti.com
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5. SantaMaria
Spaceship
2011-2013
Life on
PromethEUs
2014-2016
Approaching
Better
Teaching
2018-2021
Teaching
Cultural
Heritage With
Digital Tech
2019-2022
Educate to
Inspire
2017-2019
Creative
Methodology
2010
Using ICT in
Language
Learning
2010
Critical
Thinking
School
Management
Collaborative
Learning and
Social Media
2015
UsingeTwinni
ng in KA2
Projects
2016

6. Spaceship Santa Maria
• LLL Program, Comenius
• 2011 – 2013
• Three partners
• Sustainable future
• Students’ debate
• Handbook bit.ly/2H3XggW
• Google site: bit.ly/3E0peGk

8. Spaceship Santa Maria
Since the Spaceship Santa Maria is isolated and need to be self-supported for
generations, there will be various problems to solve before take off:
• How is the crew going to be put together?
• What languages shall be used among the crew?
• How is the ship going to be governed?
• How will they produce enough food, oxygen and fresh water to everybody?
• What religions and values will be allowed on board?
• What economic system will there be onboard the ship?
• What will the laws and rules be like?
• What shall the crew do in free time?
• How will new technologies like intelligent robots and genetic engineering be used?
• What kind of education system will be used?
• How will health care work?
• What kind of social structures will be allowed on Santa Maria?

9. Task for you:
Find the Handbook bit.ly/2H3XggW and answer the questions:
1. Name at least three topics that students used for their negotiations.
2. What was the second topic?

10. Life on PromethEUs
• Erasmus+
• 2014 – 2016
• Five partners
• Sustainable future
• Topics for debate
• Handbook
• Bonn

11. Life on PromethEUs
Objective for the teachers:
Develop, test and implement innovative teaching methods
focusing on interdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning
Objective for the students:
Raise awareness about sustainable development issues
Problem solving skills
Develop 21st century skills
Role of the teachers:
Facilitators / mediators between students and knowledge

12. Life on PromethEUs
•Prior knowledge
•New vocabulary
•Tutorial – specific topic
•Internet research in groups
•Discussion
•Come up with the solution for each problem
•International meetings – discussions
•Debate
•Come up with the common solution

13. Educate to Inspire
• Erasmus+, KA1 project
• 2017 – 2019
• Job shadowing
• Structured Courses

15. Task for you
Go to this link:
bit.ly/3aKK0vi
Go to Pages and find the answers to these questions.
1) How many activities were included in this project? Name them.
2) When and where did ICT Based Classes course take place?
• Go to page: ICT Based Classes Course
• What is the video about?

16. Programming in English

17. • eTwinning
• Comet 2014
• Process
• ComicLife

18. • E-Classroom gives students an opportunity to learn about the things
they want
• students become more autonomous learners responsible for their
own learning process
• students choose the topics they like and want to learn about
• we compared these topics with our partners and chose the
common ones
• the topics we decided to cover are:
• Animals, all about us, legends, sport, monsters, food, my town
• we prepared games, worksheets, video presentations and shared all
our work on E-Classroom common web page
• we incorporated our partners' materials into our lessons and gave
feedback on them

19. Collaboration and Social Media
- As an award for the best eTwinning project in the category of young
students
- 3-day workshop in Brussels
- May 2015
- Organized by Future Classroom Lab
- Kahoot

20. The Legend of the Fisherman
bit.ly/2Wx8DrZ

21. About the Project:
Approaching Better Teaching
- Erasmus+ KA2 project
- Initiated in 2018
- Extended until 30 September 2021
- Four partners
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/74726

22. https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/easy-to-read_en

23. Reasons to
participate
The Reasons to Participate
To develop
professionally and as a
person
To enhance motivation
To improve teachers’
and students’ English
To learn new teaching
methods
To improve key
competences
To let others know about
our culture and tradition
To learn about different
education systems
To meet new people
To get to know new
cultures and traditions
To improve 21st century
skills

24. WHAT IS THE BEST
WAY TO TEACH?
TEACHER-CENTRED
TEACHING
STUDENT-CENTRED
TEACHING
BOTH? WHAT IS
THE BEST RATIO?

25. Activities
SWEDEN
STAFF TRAINING EVENT POLAND
STAFF TRAINING EVENT HUNGARY
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STAFF TRAINING EVENT
SWEDEN
STUDENTS EXCHANGE
STAFF TRAINING EVENT
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
CROATIA
AUTHENTIC
LEARNING
INTEGRATING ICT
INTO TEACHING
TALENTED
STUDENTS
BILINGUAL
TEACHING / CLIL

26. Virtual Students Exchange

27. Croatian Literature

28. Teaching Cultural Heritage With Digital
Technologies
Initiated in 2019
Affected by COVID-19 pandemic
Extended until September 2022
Five partners: Spain, Sweden, Portugal,
Poland, Croatia
The first meeting: Podgora 2019
The second meeting: Porto (postponed)
Virtual meeting took place in spring 2021

29. Outcomes for the teachers
- Improved motivation to work
- Improved English
- Improved digital competence
- Improved 21st century skills
- Widened professional network
- Acquired innovative teaching methods
- Refreshed professional knowledge
- Enriched repertoir of teaching practices
- Reflected on own teaching practice
- Improved professionally and personally

30. Thank you for your attention!
anitalasic@yahoo.com