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CONTEXT
Salesianos San Juan Bosco School of Valencia promotes the integral formation of students; it is a popular school, free and open to all social classes and it gives preference to people in need, giving priority to the promotion of all the students rather than the selection of the best. With 1615 students, in levels from preschool to baccalaureate (3 to 18 years old), the majority of the students start and finish their school life in this center; therefore the school is responsible for not only academic training but all aspects of their person.
The school is located in one of the districts with the lowest income in Valencia (last academic year 87% of students who were admitted got the points for low income, according to criteria from "Conselleria Educación Valencia", regional government). In addition, this school is among the first centers of the region that receive a grant from its regional government for the amount of students who need Compensatory Education Programmes. In this context, the Erasmus + project "EmotiON: Educating and MOTIvating for new Opportunities and Needs" was born.
OBJECTIVES
-Inclusion
-Development of innovative methodologies for the promotion of emotional intelligence
-Use of new technologies to meet the needs of diversity
-Promoting multilingualism
PARTICIPANTS
7 teachers are directly involved in the project. The teachers who have been selected are committed to the improvement and implementation of innovative methodologies; they are also members of teams or coordinators of key programs for the school's new strategic plan; they have good communication skills, to ensure that everything learned will be transmitted to the rest of the teaching staff; their language skills are enough to be able to take advantage of the experience, but they still have an interest in improving their language skills in order to adjust to the new demands of multilingual policies. They are open-minded and have participated in other European experiences.
ACTIVITIES
5 job shadowing periods and 2 structured courses are proposed. All activities aim to satisfy the needs of multilingualism, as well as an specific objective.
Objective "INCLUSION": 3 job shadowing experiences and 1 structured course.
Two job shadowing experiences at Gimnazija Bernardina Frankopana Ogulin school, Croatia. Our foreign language teacher in Secondary Education and PMAR (Programme for the attention to diversity) will share a week with an English teacher, inclusive education expert and coordinator of the eTwinning group "Inclusive Education". In addition, our school's counselor in Secondary Education will be with the counselor of this center in Croatia who is a specialist in inclusion and cognitive-behavioral therapies, and has taught several webinars in the same eTwinning group.
An English and French teacher, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages will undergo a job shadowing experience at Lycée Eugénie Cotton, Montreuil, Paris.
Finally, a Primary Education teacher, mentor and English specialist will take the course "Every pupil is important, special education in Finland and in Europe".
Objective "INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE": 2 job shadowing periods and 1 structured course.
The idea is to organise 2 job shadowing experiences in a school that has implemented the subject of "Mindfulness". Our coordinator of Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness Programme (Secondary Ed. teacher) and the Pedagogical Director in Primary Ed. will participate. Finally, this 2 job shadowing experiences took place in Portugal, with experts in the "Quiet Time Programme based on Transcendental Meditation" (https://europe-project.org).
Finally, our Primary Ed. teacher and ICT expert will take the course "Interactive teaching - using educational games and new technology in order to enhance learners motivation", in Konstanz, Germany, in order to use digital competence and gamification to meet diversity.
RESULTS AND BENEFITS
The expected results are the acquisition of new knowledge and skills by the participants regarding methodologies for inclusion, emotional intelligence and use of ICT to meet diversity, as well as the reinforcement of multilingualism in our school with an European perspective. Then, the design of strategic educational actions, their transmission to the teaching staff and the development of activities to benefit students. Finally, collaboration projects with other European schools and future Erasmus + partnership projects.
In the long term, we expect our students to benefit from the activities that we will design to promote inclusion, the development of emotional intelligence to enhance students' maturity process, conscious education and digital competence to address diversity.
By having an European development plan, families and other school's staff will also experience the feeling of belonging to a globally connected citizenship, and they will better understand the opportunities that Europe provides. Finally, other schools and entities will be able to benefit from our experience, with our participation and diffusion in specific courses and seminars.
By having an European development plan, families and other school's staff will also experience the feeling of belonging to a globally connected citizenship, and they will better understand the opportunities that Europe provides. Finally, other schools and entities will be able to benefit from our experience, with our participation and diffusion in specific courses and seminars.
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