Lifelong Learning Comenius Multilateral School Project

WE ALL CAME HERE FROM SOMEWHERE

OLAINE SECONDARY SCHOOL NO 12012

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - PLUSES We have done all 16 presentations :

1. Geographical areas, natural environments, introducing the countries and cities – Turkey, October 2010

2. Architectural monuments in Latvia – France, Bordeaux, November 2010

3. Europe- an open gate to towards the history - archaeological sites and historical events - Poland, Łodz, December 2010

4. European literary values – poetry and stories specific for every participant – the Czech Republic, Velké Němčice, February 2011

5. Linguistic Diversity – a step towards the European citizenship - Education for citizenship – Spain, Torrejon De Ardoz, March 2011

6. Unity through diversity represented by local dance – Romania, Giubega, April 2011

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7. Life styles in the past and present – Traditional family values – Lithuania, Utena, May 2011

8. Children games and sports in Europe – Germany, Neckargemünd, June 2011

9. Religious diversity in Europe – Bulgaria, Sofia, September 201110. Traditions and customs – Wedding, Baptism ceremonies.Local habits,

traditions related to the religious holidays – Portugal, Coimbra, October 2011

11. Tourism – a way of promoting our own culture – Switzerland, November 2011

12. Handicrafts – yesterday, today and tomorrow – Italy, December 201113. Specific European dishes – miniguide with traditional food – France,

Fayence, February 201214. Diversity, identities and citizenship. Let's celebrate tolerance and peace

– Scotland, Inverness, March 201215. ICT – universal language of communication – Belgium, Boom, April 201216. Education system in Latvia – Latvia, Olaine, May 2012

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - PLUSES It was a possibility to meet colleagues and

students from different countries, exchange information, communicate

For students – a real and practical situation for language use that stimulates and motivates to study English

To widen our horizon and get rich information about different cultures

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - PLUSES A lot of useful information – materials, photos,

videos, that can be used in the learning process in teaching different subject

Compare different educational systems, questions related to education in different European countries

All meetings were very well organised – it was a possibility not only to work hard but do some sightseeeing and get known with different cuisine

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - MINUSESToo many countries – it is impossible to

attend all the meetings for our school because:

Not all teachers communicate in English

We have to work at school, too!

It is not a good idea to send to the meetings different people if they are not really involved in the whole project work at their schools, because they cannot give any information related to the next meetings etc.

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - MINUSES The themes of the meetings in each country were not

very clear, each time we had a meeting we disscussed what exactly do we have to do for the next meeting. If you did not attend any meeting sometimes it was really a big problem to make the next presentation.

The order of the themes for each meeting was not very successful – to our mind, we had to start with the education systems but we finished with this theme. As our school has got 5 folk dance groups it would be better to organise a meeting related to folk dances in Latvia not Romania.

EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - MINUSES As the themes were not very clear it was quite

difficult to involve our students into the project work – we plan our work for the following school year in August and we had to follow the National Standarts and Curriculum. If we know the tasks for the presentation just a month or two before the meeting, it is almost impossible to include them into the learning process.

Too different schools – it was a big problem to organise students’ mobilities as we planned when we applied.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE ATTENTION!

Paldies liels par uzmanību!