TEKSL žákovskýprojekt - evaluation of the lesson and description of the team preparatory work

1. European Values:
FAIRTRADE
Teaching: An effective key to self-learning
This project is funded by European Union.
PRESENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE LESSON

2. Part 1 – Why Fairtrade?
• In the beginning of this project,
pupils from grade 9 came with
the idea to learn more about
Fair-trade and tell the other pupils about it.
• So they invited guests from NGO Fer-OVA and
the three most active girls helped to prepare a
presentation of the topic and products for
pupils from grade 9 and 8.
in September 2015.
• At the end they decided
to start a Fair-trade club.

3. What happened next?
• In October, this club organized a Fair-trade project in
English lessons and pupils from the Fairtrade club
prepared presentations about this topic.
• These presentations later became part of our lesson for
Teaching: An effective key to self learning project.
• Pupils from grade 8 and 9 then worked on their own
presentations and posters.
• They worked in small teams.
• Finally they presented their results to
their classmates.

4. Growing interest in Fairtrade
• Most pupils involved in this project worked also
in the Fairtrade club. They really liked the topic
and worked hard to learn more about it.
• For example, they held a Skype conference with
a young lady who opened a clothes shop with
Fairtrade products, visited a shopping centre and
made a survey on FT products. They made
interviews with the shop assistant to learn what
they know about this topic.
• They even took part in another
etwinning project to share better
their ideas with a Slovak school.

5. Chosing the topic for our lesson
• In December 2014, members of the Erasmus+
team made the decision to prepare a Fair-
trade lesson for the January international
study visit of Erasmus+ students in Ostrava.
• A January Open Door Day for parents was
used for spreading the information about the
project and our topic.
• Our pupils talked to parents
and made a survey which
became part of our lesson.

6. Part 2 – OUTCOME for MANUAL
• Title: FAIR-TRADE
• Subject: European Values Target age: 14 – 16 Time: 2 lessons
• Goal: Introduce European values and Fairtrade
• Objectives:
• To explain the meaning of logo, “Fair-trade” and „fair-trade
• To inform about the “Fair-trade” a Fair trade school movements
• To inform about coffee, tea bags and chocolate production
• To compare living conditions in Europe and the developing country
with focus on the quality of life, especially children´s life
• To promote Fair trade products by their display and tasting them
• To make a poster informing about the main ideas of fair-trade and
Fair-trade
• To collect data for a statistical poster and get feedback of the
lesson impact

7. Lesson plan - FAIRTRADE
1) Introduction of the team, topic and first survey 5´
2) Fair-trade movement, logo, meaning of “Fair-trade”
and “fair trade”, criteria for a Fair-trade school 10´
3) Presentations of coffee, tea and chocolate production,
comparing living conditions in Europe and the developing
countries with focus on the quality of children´ life 15´
5) Survey about the impact of the lesson 5´
6) Fair trade products display and tasting 10´
7) Making a poster informing about the main ideas
of fair-trade and Fair-trade 40´
8) Presentation of pupils´ posters 10´

8. Who took part in the lesson?
• 7 Czech student „teachers“:
14 – 15 years old
• Nikol Bystroňová, Michaela
Škrabálková, Veronika
Polcrová, Michaela Hladká,
Tereza Pražáková, Karolína
Hosová, Michaela Kozelská
• 32 students from 5 countries
15 - 17 years old
• 12 teachers from 7 countries
BG, BE, IR, IT, SP, CZ + English
teacher Chuck Rice from USA

9. When and where
• Place: Media classroom
• School: Primary school Kosmonautů 15, Ostrava
• Date: 26 January 2015, Monday
• Lesson 1 (survey, presentations): 14:00 – 14:40
• Lesson 2 (poster making): 14:50 – 15:30
• Poster presentation was organized on Thursday
29 January with all international participants and
some Czech students in the media classroom

10. Which means are necessary?
• Power-point presentations, lesson worksheets,
• Handouts with survey before and after lesson
• Fair-trade products (chocolate, tea, juice)
• Data projector, colour markers, large paper

11. 1) BEGINNINNG of the lesson
• The first activity in the lesson was introduction
of our team because it was the first day of our
first project international learning visit.
• After this our team shortly introduced the topic
of the lesson and asked participants to answer
their survey about Fairtrade
• Then handouts with the survey were
distributed and after a while collected back
1) Do you know what Fair-trade is? Yes / No
2) Which Fair trade products are sold best?
3) Where are most of the Fair-trade products sold?
4) Would you like to learn more about it? Yes / No

12. 2) FAIRTRADE FACTS
presentation, worksheet
• Students introduced criteria for a Fair-trade
school which can be found in English:
http://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/
• The criteria are transleted into Czech language
http://www.fairtradoveskoly.cz/ft_skoly
• Students introduced various Fairtrade logos:

14. What else did we teach?
• Next students talked about the Fair-trade
movement and the meaning of the word “Fair-
trade”. The seat of Fair-trade is in Bonn. One half
of the elected board are representatives of the
Fair trade cooperative producers mainly from the
developing countries. Students used power-point
presentations.
• For Czech students we also use this presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/1-
prezentace-pro-ochutnvku-web

15. Fair-trade goals and purposes:
• Fair-trade is organization which main goal is:
– To set the Fair-trade certification standards,
– To give the minimum price for the Fair-trade goods,
– To promote Fair-trade logo,
– To organize campaigns for support of the fair trading.
• The Fair-trade organization has two main
purposes:
• To eliminate child labour
• To make sure that a farmer gets fair price for his
product.

16. Beginning of Fairtrade movement
• Name “Fair-trade” was first used in the
Netherlands in the 80s in the last century.
• Max Havelaar Foundation introduced the first
product fulfilling the Fair trade criteria, coffee
from Mexico, in 1988.
• The first Fair trade organization was founded
in Great Britain in 1992 and its first products
with Fair trade logo were produced in 1994.
• The first Fair-trade products were connected
with handmade goods, nowadays the most
traded Fair-trade goods are coffee, cocoa,
sugar, and tea.

17. Fair-trade or fair trade?
Living conditions
• Fair-trade also means fair selling and buying
products.
• It gives people from Africa, Asia, and Latin
America a chance to make living with their work.
• Its goal is to guarantee that people work
conditions respect human rights and that
farmers are paid for their hard work a fair wage.
• Only farmers who respect living environment can
get the right to use the Fair-trade logo.
• The children whose parents work for Fair-trade
cooperatives can go to school.

18. 3) Fairtrade improves living conditions
• Students presented procedures for making coffee,
tea and chocolate in order to make clear that this is
hard tedious work which is paid badly in the
developing countries and the living and working
conditions are demeaning for the workers and their
children who are often forced to work instead of
going to school. Students used their power-point
presentations:
• fair-trade tea
http://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/presentation
-fairtrade-tea,
• fair-trade products
http://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/presentation
-of-fairtrade-products

19. 4) Survey on the impact of the lesson
• Pupils were asked to answer the same questions
about Fair-trade and some new questions.
• These answers were checked together before
Czech pupils collected them back so that the
international students had better feedback.
• The Czech students compared the results of the
survey done before the lesson with the results of
the survey done after the lesson to see the
impact of the lesson on their pupils.

20. 5) Fair trade products: display and tasting
• The Czech students prepared Fair-trade products such
as chocolate, cookies, tea or juice.
• After the lecture they encouraged their international
pupils to taste them.
• Fair trade products are often more expensive and
shop assistants claim that it is due to their higher
quality and higher expenditures caused by higher ratio
of hand work.
• This is something what the consumer cannot check so
at least it is good to know whether he or she likes the
particular product.
• Students also showed the logo on the products.

21. 6) Making a poster about the main
ideas of fair-trade and Fair-trade
• International students were asked to make a
poster about fair trade and Fair-trade.
• First they had some time for discussing their ideas.

22. 7) Poster presentation
• International students presented their posters
• Students also said the main idea of their poster and
in their language.
• At the end the Czech pupils collected the posters.
• Later they prepared a poster display.
• Finally, the posters were taken to secondary school
in Hlučín where the Czech pupils taught another
Fairtrade lesson in April.

23. • We prepared qualitative
and quantitave evaluation
questions about the
lesson.
• These questions were part
of the final evaluation form
of the meeting in Ostrava.
• You can find the form here:
• https://docs.google.com/fo
rms/d/1_XYtf3LWioA8AME
kSiFnmt6sGZfWKS6bz2__7
gHPn3E/viewform
Part 3 - EVALUATION

24. Czech student „teachers“ wrote:
• Student 1: I think, to do the presentation about
Fair-trade was the most challenging part of the
project for me.
• Student 2: The most inspiring moment for me
during the meeting was when we had a
presentation about how Fair-trade is involved in
helping people.
• Student 3: During the meeting I learnt to teach
others and I can use it in our project.

25. International pupils wrote:
• Bulgarian pupil 1: The most inspiring moment of the
meeting was when we did the posters because it
was cool to work with my team mates.
• Bulgarian pupil 2: learned about Fair Trade. I believe
this knowledge is really valuable.
• Irish pupil: The new thing which I have learnt during
the meeting was that fair trade is very common in
the southern hemisphere especially in Africa.
• Belgium pupil: What new did I learned during the
meeting? I learned more about fair trade and I
learned speaking better English.

26. Teachers wrote:
• Czech teacher: It was great to see pupils working
hard on the topic which they have chosen and
doing all the research. They were afraid to speak
to older students who they did not know and do
the lesson in English but they overcame their
worries and did a great job.
• Bulgarian teacher 1: The Fair Trade activity was
interesting.
• Bulgarian teacher 2: Presentation of posters by
students was the most inspiring moment for me
during the meeting.

27. Part 4 – DISSEMINATION
1) Display of the Fairtrade posters at our school.
2) Teaching 13 apprentices in vocational school OU
Hlučín in April in 2015.
3) We used data collected during the survey and made
a statistics poster for a national poster competition
in February 2015 and put the poster on a Fairtrade
notice-board.
4) Teaching 17 pupils in class 8. A in our primary school
in June 2016.
5) Pupils from class 8. A used the information and the
poster to make Math tasks for another lesson.
6) Placing our presentations for the lesson an of the
lesson with Erasmus+ logo on project web sites.

28. Feedback for the last lesson:
What do you think about the lesson?
• Did you like the lesson?
• Did you learn something? What was it?
• What was the best part?
• Did you understand your „teacher“?
• Did you have a task? How did you feel about it?
• Did your group worked as a team?
• Did you feel well in your group?
• Do you have other comments or recommendations?

29. Answers from class 8. A in June 2016
• On 10 June 2016 our team who is now about to leave
school prepared Fairtrade lesson for class 8. A
• 17 pupils listened to the presentations and worked
with new worksheets in two lessons.
• Then they drank Fairtrade tea and worked on
posters.
• In the end of the third lesson we asked previous
questions.
• Most pupils enjoy the lesson and could understand
their peer teachers well. They were happy to work in
groups.

30. o
Presentation about Fairtrade tea – Michaeala Š. and Nikol who took part in Italy meeting 2016.

31. 17 pupils from class 8. A after Fairtrade tea refreshment worked on their posters on 10 June.

32. We taught this lesson:
class pupils town country language date
8. and 9. 15 + 14 Ostrava Czech Republic English,
Czech
October
2014
International
students
32 Ostrava Czech Republic English 27. 01. 2015
29. 01. 2015
Vocational
school, form 2
12 Ostrava Czech Republic English,
Czech
22. 04. 2015
8. A 17 Ostrava Czech Republic English 10. 06. 2016