This document provides guidance for international collaborative project work between students. It discusses finding partner schools, developing project ideas focused on subjects or topics, and formulating problems to explore. Examples of project types include studying French songs of the 20th century or how to reduce waste. The document also provides tips for setting goals and evaluating projects, integrating them into school curricula, creating a project plan and quality standards, and communication best practices between international partner schools.

1. COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL PROJECT WORK Brussels, November 2011 Cees Brederveld The Netherlands

2. Who’s who? Partner finding moment Speedtwinning Others Groups of 4 to 6 potential partners

3. Getting ideas

4. Project types Type of projects Subject related projects Topical projects Problem based cross curricula projects Starting point Subject Topic Problem Purpose Increased subject related knowledge Increased topic knowledge Increased knowledge as a basis for the students’ ability to act and develop solution models as a result of the findings in the project Results Description of the chosen subject Description of the interdisciplinary topic Increased action competence Example French ‘chansons’ in the 20 th Century Africa W(hat a w)aste (about how to deal with the growing amount of waste in the world)

5. Problem formulation https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tF3NqiLms2ulbcd_IyoU8uQ#gid=0

6. Goals and evaluation What do you want to achieve? SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely How do you make the students into the project ‘owners’? What kind of activities? How to evaluate?

7. Goals and evaluation 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK_Zh4diJkrcxZsVDyjxIXXw1DeannbHmzx1xJ-nBUE/edit?hl=en_US# https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak48lni8s7UNdEhsYnRVbE1fa3U0Rk9mRkpVb3BLRVE&hl=en_US#gid=0

8. Embedding How much time do you have for this project? How many subjects fit in? On which competences do you emphasize? How can you be sure that the project will have enough quality? How could this project be implemented in normal school work?

9. Mind Starting event Ownership – involving students Involving head of school, colleagues and parents Dissiminate the results

10. Project plan

11. Project plan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_Hfd9GWgORCDmUOIvkzDS3xim25E6JyFybZr3VbcSE/edit?hl=en_US#

12. Quality Star Status Goals/aims Evaluation Project Plan Quality Criteria

13. 8 Golden Rules Exchange as many addresses as possible Always reply on inquiries!!! Be aware of cultural differences Netiquette Set deadlines and keep to them Make arrangements on the tools used. Invest time and energy to understand eachother Don’t be afraid to ask!

14. KISS K eep I t S mall and S imple. from Cees Brederveld [email_address]