3. Aims:
• improving intercultural dialogue through organizing
nearly forgotten traditional children’s festivals;
• learning more about cultural diversity and trying to
understand this concept;
• comparing and contrasting pre-school education
systems, exchanging and promoting effective teaching
strategies;
• showing the link between the past and the
present, stressing the role of national and regional
identity in European context;
• motivating to learn modern foreign languages and
developing innovative ICT skills;
• supporting teachers in collecting good and useful
materials.
4. Key activities:
• preparing a website about the project, its participants
and festivals organised in partner countries;
• organising meetings in all participating countries and
giving teachers a chance to exchange experience and
information connected with the project;
• participating in all festivals;
• preparing exhibitions with materials, photos and
souvenirs brought from particular countries;
• teaching children about the culture, history, art and
geography of participating countries;
• preparing a book summing up the project, presenting
participating countries and recommending good
teaching methods.
6. • reports assesing all meetings;
• reports showing actvities in particular
countries and project products;
• progress report;
• a book with activity plans;
• a photobook showing the project and its
dimension in Poland ;
• summing up the whole project during the
last meeting in June 2013;
• final report, publishing the products.
8. ADDED VALUE – KNOWLEDGE
Learning more about partner countries
• geography, culture, history, important monuments
• customs
• everyday life, differences and similarities
Information about education systems
• organization of education systems
• everyday functioning
• conditions for staff and children
Exchanging experience
• teaching methods and strategies
• activity plans
• teachers' qualifications
9. ADDED VALUE – SKILLS
Linguistic competence
•learning English
•using English as a tool for communication
•translating
IT skills
•running a website, a blog and a facebook account
•preparing presentations and films
•preparing brochures, folders and other promoting materials
•using email
Social and interpersonal skills
•developing mutual respect and promoting equality
•making friends
•raising self esteem
•developing creativity and entrepreneurial skills
11. Kindergarten
• project logo – a competition organised for
parents, teachers and graduates
• promoting materials:
brochures, posters, leaflets, folders, stickers, boo
klets
• exhibitions
• activities with children (project method)
• project’s diary - blog
• involving parents (translations, gathering
information, helping in organising interesting
classes for children, sharing knowledge as
experts)
• preparing presentations and activity plans
• exchanging experience
12.
13. Local environment
• articles in local press
• information on kindergarten’s website
• information on the website of local
authorities, including photos from meetings
• meeting local authorities while visiting
participating countries
• exchanging information and experience while
meeting local teachers and heads of other
kindergartens
• visiting other educational institutions i.e.
libraries, schools, kindergartens etc.
14. Project's promotion at national level
• project's website
• articles in a monthly magazine „Wychowanie
w Przedszkolu”
• a conference and a presentation for teachers
intending to take part in Comenius projects
Project's promotion at international level
• newspaper articles
• radio interviews
• tv coverage
19. • Learning more about other European
countries1
• Raising cultural awareness, promoting
diversity and equality2
• Exchanging experience and developing
creativity3
• Learning modern foreign languages and
developing IT skills4
• Improving and strengthening relations with
parents5
• Raising self-esteem and enhancing motivation6
The impact on kindegarten staff
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21. The impact on kindegarten
functioning
Promotion
Parents'
recognition
Kindergarten's
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