Motiváció, kulcs a sikerhez

The Dr. Mező Ferenc Primary School has participated in the Erasmus mobility.  The topics of our project have been connected to each other and have been reflected in the school’s aim. This project's topic was the motivation of the teachers and students. We choose this theme because of the change of the education’ environment and the challenge of the 21th century’s society. We assume that it is more and more hard to keep the motivation of the students. We face in every semester the teacher’s burnout symptoms and the fluctuation of the staff. Our students in primary school are overwhelmed and under-motivated in learning. These phenomena overall have moved us to choose teacher training in the field of motivation’ methods. Being part of an international environment and taking part in an inspirational teacher community leads us to do our work with higher motivation and higher standards.

In this year, our Erasmus project has focused on the new theoretical and practical courses in the field of motivation. We hoped for personal growth as well as professional improvement. As we finished our project, we gained multiple results. Our school has a wide range of different students. They are different by nationalities, disabilities, talents, personalities and motivation. If we focus on their motivation to learn, we offer them equal opportunities. We focused on our colleagues' motivation as well. If the teachers can get an impact from experts all over Europe and get new methods, approaches, connections,  they are able to make their lessons more enjoyable. The students get motivated by the new experiences, by the positive learning environment. The English language skills of the participants have also improved: four of them were on language training and except one course, the others were in English. We use the learnt methods in our daily teaching life and make an impact on the school’s life.

During the project, we managed 16 mobilities. 4 of them was aimed at language training, mainly with the conception that as many employees as possible in the institution should be able to use English communication at a higher level, since 10 percent of our students learn Hungarian as a foreign language and in the early days the common language with students and their parents is English. 12 mobilities directed professional trainings. The participants of these mobilities already have had training experiences from previous years, and the language skills of the colleagues according to their first time Erasmus program were adequate to participate in English-language training. When choosing the courses, we took into account the institutional needs, the short- and long-term institutional strategies that we presented in the European Development Plan, and the personal needs that served the high-level professional development of the participants.

During the project, compared to the original application, there were many changes due to the unforeseen events of the past two years, as well as the fluctuation of the institutional workforce. Altough, we kept the goals set in the project in mind despite all changes and modifications. We have managed the planned 16 mobilities, with 13 participants, although the courses and participants partially changed, the new training courses and the new employees entering the project were able to identify with the training goals outlined in the project's Action Plan. 

The English language competences of the participants in the language training, especially in communication, improved significantly. Institutional needs  justify this, so that as many as possible can communicate with non-Hungarian speaking students. The competences acquired by the participants in the professional-methodological training improve student-teacher motivation. The participants reported that, as a result of their training, they got to know and mastered a number of methodological elements that can be effective in motivating students, and that their own intellectual resources were significantly increased by their intercultural relationships and personal experiences.