ASSEN
MOBILITY DIARY 1 ERASMUS+ PROJECT KA1
"2020 CHALLENGE"
CEIP MAX AUB
Structured
course in Assen (Netherlands) from 13th to 19th October 2019
Course title:
Creativity in the teaching and learning process and how to use music,
art, ICT, activities in and out of the classroom, games, teamwork,
peer teaching and the project based learning methodology to reduce
dropout rates, improve motivation and behaviour in pupils and to
improve the integration of pupils from different social and cultural
backgrounds.
Topics
of the course:
1.- Creativity
in the process of teaching and learning through activities inside and
outside the classroom.
2.- Creative
teaching and learning methods to reduce dropout rates and improve
student motivation.
3.- How to use
music, art, ICT and activities outside the classroom in a creative
way.
4.- How to use
games, teamwork, peer learning and project based learning methodology
in education.
5.- How to apply
non-formal teaching methods in formal education.
6.-Creative
teaching methods to improve the integration of pupils from different
cultural and social backgrounds and the inclusion of immigrant
pupils.
7.- Creativity
in teaching and learning to improve motivation and coexistence in
class.
Journal
of Activities
1st
day: Sunday 13th
October 2019
- Arrival of the
participants in Assen and accommodation at 'Hotel de Jonge' in the
afternoon.
-
At 17 h presentation of the course in the Conference Room of the same
hotel where they explained to us the basic guidelines of the course
to be developed throughout the week. They also gave us a presentation
about the country and the region of Assen city with a car tour and
its most important areas, although the most entertaining area is the
nearby city of Groningen where the University is located.
- 'European
Fair'
Participants
were asked to bring a typical gastronomic product of their countries
to share later in another room and so we did. It was a very nice
activity for "breaking the ice” that made possible the first
contact and communication between the participants.
2nd
day: Monday 14th
October 2019
(Workshop
topics 1,2,3,4,6 and 7 were carried out)
-
Morning: Meeting in the Conference Room where the presentations of
each participating school were done. These were 12 schools from 7
European countries: Italy, France, Estonia, Iceland, Romania, Hungary
and Spain.
The course
speakers then gave a presentation on the Dutch education system.
- Afternoon: Visit to the History Archive of the Drents region in Assen where they have an extensive programme of educational activities for students of all levels. There we did some of these activities:
-Team quest of a treasure that was in a room using Dutch-language clues that they read in a computer application. It was very fun and motivating.
-Interactive screen with different activities like joining images of objects of the past with the current equivalents: cars, furniture...
-Viewing of a video about the School in the past.
-We ended up doing a kind of gymkhana of finding statues and places on the outside of the building where clues were to be followed on a mobile phone.
3rd
day: Tuesday 15th
October 2019
(Workshop
topics 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 were carried out)
- Morning:
Visit
to the “Drents Museum”. It was a theatrical visit to a museum
(which is an old manor house) dealing with the story of famous
characters of Assen, who were inhabitants of the house in the
eighteenth century. It is an activity that includes dramatization and
tells the story in a playful and motivating way.
Workshop
of "Lego listening": It is a communication activity in
couples in which one of the two people gives the instructions to make
a figure with pieces of Lego that must be identical to the one given
as a model. In this activity the greatest handicap was linguistic as
they communicated in English, which was not the mother tongue of any
of the participants.
7th
day: Saturday 19th
October 2019
- Afternoon:
Workshop
of music, painting and creativity: Collective elaboration of a mural
with colours related to a specific theme following music. At each
music change you have to change place and/ or colour.
4th
day: Wednesday 16th
October 2019
(Workshop
topics 2,4,6 and 7 were carried out)
-Morning:
Visit to the
windmill and "De Watcher" museum in Zuidlaren.
Typical
Dutch windmill where the guide, who was a former mill worker, has
explained to us aspects such as the function and the operation and
history of the mills in the Netherlands. It is a place where students
see in first person the process of producing flour, thread and flax
oil.
Students learn
about history in an interdisciplinary way, mathematical concepts
relating to the operation of the mill blades and others such as the
real use of renewable energy sources. Finally they make their own
bread, which is a very important product in the Netherlands.
Visit to the Mill Museum: There were a lot of tradition street organ, pianos and objects as curious as a miniature typewriter in which the principles of computers and the new technologies of today were intuited.al objects donated by private individuals such as a street organ, pianos and objects as curious as a miniature typewriter in which the principles of computers and the new technologies of today were intuited. as a pianos and objects as curious as a miniature typewriter in which the principles of computers and the new technologies of today were intuited.
- Afternoon
Preparation
of a photo-reportage summary of the activities of the week made with
"Movie maker" with the team of 4 teachers from Spain.
-
5th day: Thursday 17th
October 2019
(Items
3, 4, 6 and 7 were carried out)
-Morning:
Explanation
of a concept map method «Mind mapping method and chain of thoughts»
-This is a
method for developing concept maps in groups.
-
Students are divided into groups of 5.
-
There were some restrictions for each group such as using single
words, using only images of magazine clippings, using only drawings
...
- Each team
member was assigned a disability role (blind, injured in one hand,
mute, mental).
-
Afternoon:
Treasure hunting
workshop
- Divide
participants into groups
-
Search the grounds to identify some places of interest such as
buildings, statues, paintings and churches drawn on a document.
-Use
a map where they must mark all places found.
- Organize an
exit to identify the places drawn.
-
Each group must identify the real drawings and take selfies sent to
the Facebook group.
- 6th day: Friday 18th October 2019
(Items 3 and 4 were carried out)
-Morning:
Talk “ICT in Education”
- Promotes interactive learning.
- Helps the student also after class.
- To individualize learning.
-Incorporate ICT in “sweaty class”, a change of conception in class where it is not about giving information but how to access it.
- Creativity is the key and games apps like Socrative, Quizz or Kahoot can be included. This gamification means that students are more motivated to learn.
Storytelling workshop as a didactic strategy for experimental learning»
With the help of a material called "Storycubes", the class is divided into teams that have to create a story based on characters and given actions. Once the story is written, each group is asked to represent it without words, with mimicry, and the audience has to guess what the story is about. It is a very creative, motivating and fun activity.
-
Afternoon:
Visit to Drenthe
College.
Interesting
and exciting visit to a VET Centre in Assen with Business, Economy,
Cooking, Tourism, Sport and Health programmes. It has received
several Quality Awards for modern and prepared facilities as well as
for the quality of its education.
-Morning:
Evaluation
of the assimilation of the topics of the course by the participants
through an online questionnaire.
Presentations of
FTO-reports from each country.
Delivery of
certificates and closing of the course.
