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"Joint" activity report for the second year 2006/2007
During the project meeting in Kaunas, in May 2007, some teachers of the Italian group suggest to start to think about the final report for the school year 2006/2007. The final report should be a duty for the coordinator school but we all understand that the Slovak school has problems in coordinating the project, in taking part to mobilities and even in communicating with other partners. So, some volunteers sit down around the computer and write a draft of the final report.Time is short , the ideas are not so clear, so we can not finish the report during the meeting. The agreement is that, after the meeting, each of us should read the draft, add the missing part, share the document within each school and with the partner schools and then put together a common final report. Unfortunately, nobody add any significant part to the draft. Summer is over and the dead line for the report forces Paola from Iqbal Masih school to put together what she has got, thinking that it's not right to do others' job without any help. The result is this, a report with relevant missing parts
Introduction The participants to the meeting of Comenius Project Bell, held in Kaunas from 6 to 13 may 2007, taking in consideration the absence of the coordinator school Nasa Skola at this meeting and the lack of effective communications with the coordinator school trough this school year, agree on the following points " Nasa Skola in Ruzomberok, Slovakia, for many reasons (it's a small private school, with no experience in European project and difficulties in using communication tools that are necessary in this project; the contact person seems to have some personal difficulties in joining the activities) cannot be the coordinator school in the third year of the project. We all agreed that the coordinator school for the third year will be School Iqbal Masih in Rome as we stated on the renewal form of our Comenius project " We start to write together, during this meeting, the activity report for the school year 2006/2007 instead of our coordinator, because we are not sure that this important document can be wrote and shared in time by the coordinators. SECTION A: PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES 1What activities have been carried out by the partnership in the past school year? Briefly describe the project activities which have taken place locally within the participating institutions, as well as the transnational mobility activities of staff and pupils. Explain what went well or less well than expected and why. Activity realized in the partnership " Discussion and sharing new early language learning/teaching methods through meetings and BELL web site o CLIL o Storytelling o Hocus Lotus Project o ICT in foreign language teaching/learning and internet resources o Evaluation questionnaires shared and used in the partners schools. " Production of new didactic material related to: o CLIL different ages using movies for ( Ice age 1 movie) o Special needs children learning languages - activities and suggestions for their integration in the language classes o Story telling for different ages o Production of evaluation questionnaires " Publishing all the material on the project web-site that became a very important mean of sharing and communicating among partners and with other educational structures. " Exchange students' material among partner schools Activities realized in each partner school " L.P. Boon: with all children from 2, 5 to 12 year old, integrating children with special needs, the whole year they worked on Story telling and CLIL using Ice age movie. They produced new material in every class: games, memos , flash cards, art and craft … " All the other partners worked in the same way and realized similar material, related to different age pupils. " Teachers' meeting related to Comenius project. " In service training course for teachers in Italian, Czech, Belgian schools about languages. " Seminars organized by English Publishing in Zlìn school and in Rome school Mobilities " Project meeting in Rome from 23rd to 27th October 2006 " Project meeting in Kaunas from 6th to 13th May 2007 " Teachers' exchanges: o Two teachers from Czech Republic to Slovakia in March o One teacher from Lithuania to Czech Republic in April o One teacher from Czech Republic to Lithuania in April o Two teachers from Lithuania to Italy in June o Two teachers from Italy to Belgium in June o One teacher from Slovakia to Czech Republic in May " Study visits: o Headmistress of St. Lozoraitis ( Lithuania) to Czech Republic in April o Headmistress of Iqbal Masih ( Italy) to Belgium in June o Headmistress of Ružomberok ( Slovakia) to Czech Republic in May SECTION B: END PRODUCTS What kind of product(s) have been produced collaboratively by the project partnership in the course of the past school year? Which of these are 'joint' project results and which have been produced separately by the participating institutions? How have these products been disseminated and to whom, both within and outside the partnership? How were they received? ? Common products i. Web site of the project ? Products in each school i. Descriptions, drawings, photos about Ice Age. ii. Teaching material for CLIL iii. Games, puzzle, about Ice Age iv. Questionnaires to test pupils comprehension and achievements v. Exchanging letters between pupils from Czech and Slovak schools vi. Exchanging letters between pupils from Czech and Italian schools ? Dissemination of products i. Mainly using the web site that is known among different teachers web communities. SECTION C: BALANCED PARTNERSHIP / COMMUNICATION & COOPERATION How effective was the collaboration between the participating institutions? How was the distribution of tasks agreed and progress monitored? How was the communication organised? What communication language(s) has/have been used? Were there any major obstacles to a satisfactory cooperation? How have these obstacles been overcome, if at all? How important were the staff mobility activities? How important were the pupil mobility activities? For our communication we use English language and mainly e-mails. Some problems were caused by different degrees of familiarity with some sort of media, we are bettering it SECTION D: EVALUATION Has the partnership undertaken any joint evaluation of project activities and progress made? If so, what are the main methods, conclusions and consequences of this evaluation? Were expectations met? Does the partnership wish to continue its cooperation, within a Comenius project or otherwise? Through project activities pupils in the schools improved their motivation in foreign languages activities and in European knowledge. With the planned activities we could actively involved special needs children. The web site is established as a common tool of work which can be used by teachers, students and families. We are going to improve the objective about special needs because we don't feel prepared to write a complete programme for special needs pupils. We are going to ask for help to special schools and/or support teachers for language teaching. We also evaluate as positive aspects in our schools policy about languages the following established activities: " integration of a Comenius language assistant into school-life " resources provided by the school for teaching/learning of languages (compared to other subjects)