Comenius Scholarship 14th-20th August 2011 PRAGUE Camelia Pop English teacher

1. Comenius Scholarship 14th-20th August 2011 PRAGUE Camelia Pop English teacher “Ion Creanga” School, Cluj-Napoca

2. Information about the course: • Where: PRAGUE • Organising institution ITC-International TEFL Certificate • Date: 14–20.08.2011 • The title of the course “Your City as A Project for Teaching English in Schools“ • Short description: general course within LLP - Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 • Number of hours: 40 • Participants: 3 teachers from The UK, 1 from Spain and 1 from Romania • Project Manager: prof. Lukas Vacek • Trainer: prof. Tony Cox • Funding: • Fonduri LLP - Programul Sectorial Comenius – Mobilităţi individuale de formare continuă, runda 14 ianuarie 2011 • Fonduri FSE – POSDRU prin “Schema de susţinere complementară a mobilităţii europene a cadrelor didactice din învăţământul preuniversitar beneficiare ale Programului de Învăţare pe Tot Parcursul Vieţii (Lifelong Learning)”.

3. MAIN TOPICS DURING THE COURSE • 1. Project-Based Learning • 2. Your City as a Resource for Teaching English in Schools. • 9. Bloom’s Taxonomy • 10. Hard Skills and soft skills • 11. Closed and open questions • 12. High Order Thinking Skills • 13. How to become an active listener • 14. Constructivism • 15. Human ecology • 16. How to become an innovator instead of an adopter • 17. Inquiry Based Learning • 18. Problem Solving • 19. Behaviourism/Cognitivism/Constructivism

4. Change “We must be the change we want to see in the world.” -- Mahatma Gandhi

5. Project-Based LearningIntegrating 21st Century Skills

7. What is Project-Based Learning? • PBL is curriculum fueled and standards based. • PBL asks a question or poses a problem that ALL students can answer. Concrete, hands-on experiences come together during project-based learning. • PBL allows students to investigate issues and topics in real-world problems. • PBL fosters abstract, intellectual tasks to explore complex issues.

8. How Does Project-Based Learning Work? • Question • Plan • Schedule • Monitor • Assess • Evaluate

9. Question • Start with the Essential question. • Take a real-world topic and begin an in-depth investigation. • Make sure it is relevant for your students

10. Plan • Plan which content standards will be addressed while answering the question. • Involve students in the questioning, planning, and project-building process. • Teacher and students brainstorm activities that support the inquiry

11. Schedule • Teacher and students design a timeline for project components. • Set benchmarks. • Keep it simple and age-appropriate.

12. Monitor • Facilitate the process. • Mentor the process. • Utilize rubrics.

13. Assess • Make the assessment authentic. • Know authentic assessment will require more time and effort from the teacher. • Vary the type of assessment used.

14. Evaluate • Take time to reflect, individually and as a group. • Share feelings and experiences. • Discuss what worked well. • Discuss what needs change. • Share ideas that will lead to new inquiries, thus new projects.

15. Which are the main advantages after the course • Professional growth because I have learnt a lot of innovative teaching methods regarding students’creativity and autonomy. • Advertising“Ion Creanga” School Cluj-Napoca,the city Cluj-Napoca and my achievements as a teacher of English. • Sharing experiences with my colleagues from The UK and Spain, promoting tolerance towards cultural differences, linguistic diversity and multiculturalism as European educational values • I had direct access to the history and culture of the Czech Republic. • I have enriched the knowledge of English.

16. Photos taken during the course

17. Working together and sharing experiences

18. Exploring Prague together

19. Proud of our certificates

20. Prague-an open air museum

21. The Old City

22. Prague-”the golden city”

23. Thank you!

24. Etapele obţinerii unei finanţări Pentru Programul Sectorial Comenius – Mobilitati individuale de formare continuă • Accesarea site-ului: http://www.anpcdefp.ro/programe/llp/comenius/comenius.html pentru citirea informaţiilor cu privire la programul sectorial Comenius; • Pentru a afla care sunt documentele care compun dosarul de candidatură, criteriile de eligibilitate, selecţie, excludere si criteriile de acordare a finanţării, vă rog să consultaţi: • Apelul European General pentru Propuneri de Proiecte 2011 si Apelul Naţional pentru Propuneri de proiecte 2011 la adresa: http://www.anpcdefp.ro/programe/llp/referinta/Apel_2011/Apel_national_2011.pdf • Selectarea din catalogul de cursuri Comenius a celor care prezintă interes pentru candidat: http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/search.cfm • Trimiterea unui mail persoanei de contact pentru cursul ales (pot fi trimise pentru mai multe cursuri, alegerea cursului putând fi făcută ulterior) pentru a primi un preaccept de la organizator. • Descărcarea formularelor de candidatură de pe adresa: http://www.anpcdefp.ro/programe/llp/comenius/formulare.html • Pregătirea dosarului de candidatură, după precizările făcute în Apelul European General pentru Propuneri de Proiecte 2011 şi Apelul Naţional pentru Propuneri de proiecte 2011 • Trimiterea dosarului on-line şi prin poştă, cu confirmare de primire, la adresa: Agenţia Naţională pentru Programe Comunitare în Domeniul Educaţiei şi Formării Profesionale, Bucureşti, Calea Şerban Vodă nr. 133, etaj 3, sector 4, cod postal 040205 • Afişarea rezultatelor se publică pe adresa: http://www.anpcdefp.ro/programe/llp/comenius/rezultate

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