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Best Practices- National Activities
The document discusses strategies for engaging and sustaining schools in eTwinning, an online community for schools in Europe. It outlines the UK National Support Service's 2016-17 campaign, which involved workshops to introduce eTwinning and provide ready-made online projects. Schools received free project materials linked to the UK curriculum as well as online tools and resources. The campaign aimed to show eTwinning has a positive impact on student progress. Individual support from ambassadors included in-school sessions to establish curriculum projects and partnerships with ongoing follow-up. Lessons learned stressed the importance of turning enthusiasm into sustainability through curriculum embedding, involving colleagues, and showing student impacts.
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Best Practices- National Activities
- 1. National Activities in eTwinning JohnWarwick UK Ambassador jgwarwick@gmail.com How the UK tries to engage and sustain schools in Etwinning
- 2. My personal experience •Enthusiasm • Experience • My School • Contacts in other schools • Workshops • Individual support • Webinars So what BEST engages and helps sustain ETW in schools
- 3. Lessons learnt • TurningETW enthusiasm into sustainability • Embedding ETW in to school Curriculum • Involving school colleagues • Showing impact on pupils (and teachers) • School leadership involvement 1. Ambassador strategies 2. UK NSS 2016-17 Campaign /Strategy
- 4. UK Ambassador Strategies •Proposals to NSS ………. Agreement to trial • Initial workshop/presentation-Twilight ? • Offer 4 –in school sessions – providing : a. Agreement – Signed Headteacher b. Teacher release c. Establish curriculum project d. Establish partnership e. On-going support /follow up = BETTER SUCCESS (EMBEDDED)
- 5. UK NSS Campaign2016 /17
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- 8. NSS Campaign Strategy 2016•Invite schools to FREE ETW workshop • ETW Overview plus Impact of ETW - registration • ready made twinspace for teachers first project. • FREE project kit with activities linked to UK National Curriculum objectives. • FREE resources in the twinspace plus allows input for baseline information on the pupils current attainment (updated mid /end of project) • twinspace web tools ie padlet, answergarden and google forms, as examples of the web tools used Cont….
- 9. NSS Strategy 2016cont • AMBASSADOR SUPPORT & FOLLOW UP ! • Aim – Evidence to show Etwinning has a positive impact on pupil progress
- 10. More Information NSS CampaignStrategy 2016-17 :- (UK Ambassador) Kate Kierney kojk30@gmail.com UK NSS – Liz Ariens liz.Ariens@britishcouncil.org Ambassador Strategies John Warwick (UK Ambassador) jgwarwick@gmail.com
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- #6 eTwinning is a free and secure online network, where teachers from more than 40 countries can find partners, work on projects and enable pupil collaboration across any subject area. as well as offering free resources, professional development, competitions and awards, eTwinning can be the first step towards the international school award and Erasmus+ funding. •If you are interested in applying for Erasmus+ funding, you can search and find partners using the platform OR if you are already beneficiaries of Erasmus+ funding, KA1: you could find teachers to job shadow or for KA2 use the secure online space to support and manage your project work. •Both teachers and students can store and share their work online in this space and pages can be made public or private. •You can use the tools that already there in the twinspace, like chat rooms, Adobe Live webinar conferencing, blogs to support your project work and meet up with your partner teachers and classes. •You could invite other teachers in your school to join eTwinning to help widen the international work in your school. •It’s really easy and very flexible -projects can be as long or as short as you like. Teachers meet peers from over 40 countries and can dip their toes in international projects. •National projects are also an option –work with someone in another school in the UK.
- #7 EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET AND CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH STATS THE IMPACT OF ETWINNING PROJECTS Students: Increased motivation, as students have an audience for their work. Literacy and communication skills increase as students collaborate with students from other countries. Teachers: Professional development opportunities are vast – they can take place online or on 2-3 workshops in a different country. Teachers up-skill, using new tools and learning from their colleagues in over 40 countries across Europe and further afield. Schools: Lots of accreditation opportunities, including a foundation level International School Award as soon as you register an eTwinning project. You can use the platform to find partners interested in starting a funded Erasmus+ project.
- #8 eTwinning Plus: Countries in green: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Tunisia and Ukraine (extends beyond the 33 countries of Erasmus+). Free resources and support Sign up to www.etwinning.net to receive 30 homework and passport resources, eSafety iPatches and a large map for your class. We’ll also email you details of the webinars and face-to-face workshops which have been developed to complement the free map resources. We very much encourage you to sign up to this training so that you can get started straight away on a ready-made project with existing European partners. Taking part will secure the foundation level of the International School Award for your school. Short tasks specific to key stages one to five are embedded within the training, which is delivered by teachers who have lots of experience using eTwinning as a pedagogically supportive tool to deliver the curricula of each UK region. Sign up: www.eTwinning.net Find out more: www.britishcouncil.org/eTwinning Contact us: [email_address] Follow us: @eTwinningUK