Workshop 2014
Welcome to our 2014 Study Visit in Bilbao. In this page you will find the links to the work you are preparing for the workshop where you will be able to work together discussing successful practices and strategies to improve quality in education.
Information about European countries’ educational systems are available through our home page and also here, for you to have a general idea of the topic before coming to the Basque Country.
Improving Quality in the Teaching & Learning Processes. How do our countries deal with this issue?: Questionnaires and tables
To make it easier for you, we will gather also here the documents you have sent to us (table + questionnaire). We recommend you to have a look at them before your arrival, so that, all along the week, you can clarify any doubt that can arise related to the way things are done in other countries.
1. Basic Documents:
Table_all countries (you can only view the doc through this link. To work on it, you should have a gmail account and have been invited as collaborator)
2. Participants' questionnaires (used for those who wanted to elaborate more their answers)
Finland (RANINEN, Ilkka)
Wednesday workshop: successful practices to improve quality in teaching-learning processes
On Wednesday, we will hold a workshop to share ideas about how to improve quality in education by improving teaching and learning processes. We expect to produce a kind of "Decalogue" of successful practices and strategies to improve quality in education at different levels, but focusing specially on what we can do at school.
Methodology:
1.- We will use an adaptation of the "Interactive Teams" format, an activity that belongs to the methodological approach used in Learning Communities (one of the school networks that work in the Basque Country with the motto "success for all".
2.- 3 groups of 6-7 people and three activities. Each group will have to deal with one activity, providing as many strategies as they can based on their own successful experiences or on their countries' proven successful policies. Then, we will organise 4 different groups to discuss a second issue (out of three), sharing, again, their contributions in big group.
3.- We will rotate through the activities every half hour.
4.- All groups will contribute to previous groups' work (only the first group in the activity will start from scratch)
5.- A moderator in each group
6.- Feedback: 30 minutes
Topics for discussion: Providing strategies to improve quality at school through...
Classroom management: students' participation, classroom organisation, methodological approaches, dealing with mixed-ability classes...
School management: education policies, students' participation, school organisation, timetables, school community involvement...
Assessing teaching and learning processes
Our bank of successful practices: