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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 09:15 administrator


COMENIUS PROJECT

REPORT OF THE THIRD MEETING

Everybody fits in

Date: from 5th to 12th June 2010.

Place: PRYWATNE GIMNAZJUM I LICEUM W PIASECZNIE, “SZKOŁA MARZEŃ”, PIASECZNO, POLAND.

Participants:

From Poland:

Mr. Piotr Podemski (Coordinator).

Mr. Maciej Michalski (Teacher).

Mr. Marek Szymański (Teacher).

Mrs. Kamila Gadek (Teacher). 
Mrs.Grazyna Mogielnicka (Teacher). 
Mrs.Sylwia Popis (Teacher). 
Mrs.Joanna Jankowska (Teacher). 
Mrs.Dorota Michasik-Stepniak (Teacher). 
Mrs.Katarzyna Niedzwiedz (Teacher). 
Mrs.Karolina Kucharska (Teacher). 
Mrs.Ela Horodyska (Teacher). 
Mrs.Malgorzata Sudziak (Teacher). 
Mrs.Aleksandra Kowalczyk (Teacher).

Mr. Rafal Mikolaj Derentowicz (Student).

Mr.Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (Student).

Mr. Marek Skrzyniarz (Student).

Mss. Aleksandra Gara (Student).

Mss. Ewa Gierszewska (Student).

Mss. Natalia Gogoliński (Student).

Mss. Ewelina Kęciek (Student).

Mss. Ola Łaszyn (Student).

Mss. Aleksandra Lipska (Student).

Mss. Klaudia Pietryk (Student).

Mss. Ula Pociejewska (Student).

Mss. Iga Powałka (Student).

Mss. Magdalena Przybyłek (Student).

Mss. Karolina Ratajczyk (Student).

Mss. Zosia Kreczmańska (Student).

Mss. Marysia Derentowicz (Student).

Mr. Maciej Domaradzki (Student).

Mr. Oskar Głomski (Student).

Mr. Maciej Kubrak (Student).

Mr. Jan Patryk Mroziński (Student).

Mr. Julian Przybylski (Student).

Mr. Maciej Zalasa (Student).

From Bulgaria:

Mrs. Polina Petkova (Teacher).

Mrs. Teodora Tasheva (Teacher).

Mr. Stanimir Miladinov (Teacher).

Mrs. Galya Kostadinova (Teacher).

Mr. Kosta Kyuchukov (Student).

Mr. Todor Aivazov (Student).

Mr. Strashimir Rashev (Student).

Mss. Diliana Nanova (Student).


From Lithuania:

Mrs. Loreta Jusiene (Coordinator).

Mrs. Lina Paužuolienė (Teacher).

Mrs. Jūratė Jakubaitienė (Teacher).

Mr. Gintaras Grigas (Teacher).

Mr. Dominykas Kizys (Student).

Mss. Vidmantė Visockaitė (Student).

Mss. Jolita Sasnauskaitė (Student).

Mr. Vinauskas Jonas (Student).


From Romania:

Mrs. Corina Roberta Pavel (Coordinator).

Mrs. Silvia Petrescu (Teacher).

Mr. Cristian Toncea (Teacher).

Mr. Alexandru David (Teacher).

Mss. Alexandra Cristina Balan (Student).

Mss.. Denisse Minura Epifanov (Student).

Mrs. Andrea Cristina Tudorache (Student).

Mss. Ana María Sora (Student).


From France:

Mrs. Sophie Bernier (Coordinator).

Mrs. Isabelle De Rozario (Teacher).

Mss. Johanna Torre (Student).

Mss. Marine Bourely (Student).

Mss. Claire Fouilloux (Student).

Mss. Prescillia Roman (Student).


From Spain:

Mrs Mª del Carmen Martínez Arroyo (Coordinator).

Mrs Brígida Martínez Vicente (Teacher).

Mr. Juan Manuel Ibáñez González (Teacher).

Mr. Nicanor Parra Frutos (Teacher).

Mss. Miriam González Ramírez. (Student).

Mr. Victor Francisco Belchi Martínez (Student).

Mr Juan Soler Navarro (Student).

Mr Jesús Vilar Cánovas (Student).



Real Situation of the partnership of the project:

Associated schools:

  • PROFESIONAL HIGH SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, PROFESSOR TZVETAN LAZAROV

    Address: 71 A Bratia Bukson str

    Postcode: 4004

    City: Plovdiv

    Region: Plovdiv

    Country: Bulgaria

    Fax: 0035 932671143

    Telephone:  0035 932639435  0035 932639435

  • PANEVEZYS JUOZAS BALCIKONIS GYMNASIUM

    Address: RESPUBLIKOS 47

    Postcode: LT35170

    City: Panevezys

    Region: Panevezys (Apskritis)

    Country: Lithuania

    Fax: 0037 045461421

    Telephone:  0037 045461421  0037 045461421

  • COLEGIUL NATIONAL "NICOLAE BALCESCU"

    Address: B-dul Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Nr 182

    Postcode: 810125

    City: Braila

    Region: Braila

    Country: Romania

    Fax: 0040 239615333

    Telephone:  0040 339105943  0040 339105943

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  • 2 PRYWATNE GIMNAZJUM I LICEUM

    Address: Zielona 14

    Postcode: 05-500

    City: Piaseczno

    Region: Mazowieckie

    Country: Poland

    Fax: 0048 227572899

    Telephone:  0048 227572899  0048 227572899

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  • LYCÉE DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE

    Address: Avenue de la Méditerranée

    Postcode: 13600

    City: La Ciotat

    Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

    Country: France

    Fax: 0033 0442830255

    Telephone:  0033 0490531120  0033 0490531120

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Coordinator school:

  • IES “El Bohío”

    Address: Barriada de San Cristóbal s/n

    Postcode: 30310

    City: Cartagena

    Region: Murcia

    Country: Spain

    Fax: 0034 968314770

    Telephone:  0034 968519753  0034 968519753

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Operational objectives of the Comenius Program:

  1. To improve the quality and to increase the volume of mobility involving pupils and educational staff in different Member States (COM-OpObj-1).
  2. To improve the quality and to increase the volume of partnerships between schools in different Member States, so as to involve at least 3 million pupils in joint educational activities during the period of the programme (COM-OpObj-2).
  3. To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice in lifelong learning (COM-OpObj-4).


Concrete aims of the Partnership:

  • Motivate towards the learning of other languages through the implementation and display of joint projects and living with foreign families.
  • Foster the use of new technologies both individually and in the classroom through its use as main communication system in the development of the project.
  • Increase the feeling of European Citizenship.
  • Break down topics, stereotypes and prejudices by the direct contact with the reality of each of the participant countries.
  • Improve the teaching practice through the exchange of experiences.
  • Promote equality between sexes and cultures with sports, literary, artistic and leisure activities performed together.


REPORT:

The activities and their temporal distribution appear in the programmes of the meeting for students and teachers. You can check them on our Web Page inside “Program”. In this report we are only going to detail the topics that we have talked about and the agreements that we have reached.

In this third meeting we have reviewed the agreements from our second meeting, we have done our common works, we have checked the results of the second meeting evaluation and the annual evaluation, we have taken new agreements to go on with our Project and finally, we have evaluated this meeting.

MONDAY 7/6/2010

  • TEACHERS’ MEETING:


We started to check the daily planning that the general coordinator proposed to know if there was something we wanted to change or add. The planning was accepted by all teachers and these are all the points we worked about in our work sessions:

  1. Organize students in smaller groups and state the teacher’s timetable for helping them with their work.
  2. Talk about compulsory things we need to send to our National Agencies after this first year of our Project.
  3. Check if all our agreements from last meeting have been done.
  4. Check our webpage and remind how we can upload information. As far as photos are concerned, we will decide which features (size, quality, small informative text….) they will have and how many of them a country can upload to our web.
  5. We will divide in two groups. The first one is going to work on the second meeting evaluation. The other one is going to compare the results of the annual evaluation in all our schools. Both groups will take out the significant information from the results and will write the conclusions to share them with the other group. Finally, we will analyze how we can improve those aspects which have not had good enough results.
  6. The Romanian coordinator will present the draft of the program for next meeting. We will take all the agreements needed for that meeting.
  7. Analyze the characteristics of the following common work and agree how we are going to develop it.
  8. Suggestions about common activities which involve all school next year.
  9. Set the deadline for: reports, result of the evaluation of this meeting, number of photos to upload and their format, individual works and so on.
  10. Summarize the agreements from this third meeting.


We started with the first point and students were split up into three groups to do their common work: “Our environment. Comparing our resources”. Two teachers were assigned to each group for each work session to help them with the computer (computing teacher) and with the topic (science teacher) and students started their work. Coordinators didn’t participate in this task to be able to go on with the other points of our work.

About the second point, compulsory things we need to send to our National Agencies after this first year of our Project, the coordinator of the Project informed that we all have to do a report online, print it and send a copy to our National Agencies and also to our Ministry of Education before the 30th June, together with all the products that we have made in this first year. As all our products are shown in our Webpage, we have to update it quickly after this meeting to use a copy of the Webpage as the final product of this year. In order to be successful with the dates, we took the following agreements:

  • Spanish coordinator will send the report of the meeting before 15th June and all the countries have to send the translated document before 18th June.
  • On 18th June, Spanish team will copy the Webpage.
  • On 19th June, Spanish coordinator will post the CD with the copy of our Webpage to all the countries participating in the project.

Third point: We checked the agreements from last meeting in Bulgaria. Most of them are fulfilled:

    • We already have the global certificates for the first two meetings, which is important to coordinators because it has the names of all the people participating in the meetings.
    • The PowerPoint presentation that Spanish team offered to do explaining the process of the selection of our logo is not done because there is still one missing. An email from Romania was sent but never received by Spain. Now there is not time to do it at the end of the course.
    • Translations of all Questionnaires of evaluation were done.
    • All of us have done the annual evaluation at each school.
    • The document for the evaluation of students’ presentations of common work is also ready.
    • We have not brought water samples because the proposal was cancelled.
    • Our Romanian partners have prepared a draft of the program of the next meeting.
    • Bulgarian partners sent the results of the post meeting evaluation in their country but the preliminary questionnaires were missing.
    • Common works in Bulgaria were finished as well.


We went on checking our Webpage, fourth point, the first meeting is completed now. The Polish report of the second meeting is missing, they needed a delay because they were too busy preparing this third meeting. We took note of some mistakes in the names of two students participating in this meeting. As far as photos are concerned, Spanish coordinator asked that photos were sent with a small title and 600 pixels wide.

WEDNESDAY 9/6/2010

Students and some teachers went on working in international teams preparing their presentations.

  • TEACHERS’ MEETING:


This work session started with the fifth point and teachers were divided in two groups to analyze the results of our second meeting evaluation and compare the results of our annual evaluations at each school. Conclusions from both groups were written and shared with all partners, now you can check them on our Webpage, inside the section “Evaluation in the second and third meeting”. The results in most aspects are quite good and others could be improved with more information at each school. We want to emphasize that students don’t find attractive our Webpage, so that one partner proposed to create “The students’ corner” and we have to think about it.

The Rumanian coordinator gave us some important information of our trip and stays and talked about the draft of the program for next meeting in Braila which will take place from 16th to 23rd October. This is the information:

  • It takes around 4 hours to travel from Bucharest airport to Braila, so the Romanian coordinator suggested organizing transport by minibuses. It should cost around 50 € to pay for the buses.
  • Hotels: 60 € is a medium price for a double room, 30 € if it is an individual one.
  • Each country can take 4 or 5 students , the number of teachers should be 4 or at least 3.
  • The rate of Rumanian currency is approximately 1€ ≈ 4 Leu. We shouldn’t change at the airport.
  • Taxis are cheap.
  • Sunday 17/10: trip to a salt mine.
  • Monday 18/10: A short meeting with the headmaster of the school, the local authorities and a visit around the school. Lunch. First work session in the afternoon ( 2h). A short walk in Braila. Dinner.
  • Tuesday19/10: There are two possibilities suggested: a visit to the mountains or to Bucharest. Both are quite long away, so she will decide.
  • Wednesday 20/10: Second work sessions in the morning (2h). Lunch. Visit of the region of Braila in the afternoon. Antiquities, aquarium,…
  • Thursday 21/10: Third work session in the morning (2h). Lunch. Visit a salt lake and then free time.
  • Friday 22/10: Church (attend a service). Students´ presentations. After lunch: Visit of another city. Farewell Dinner.
  • Saturday 23/10: departure.


We started with the seventh point, trying to analyze the characteristics of the following common work: How to be successful in the labor market?. We agreed to present three contemporary careers from each country, with the title:

“The Key to a successful career in …..?

We postponed this point till next work session.

THURSDAY 10/6/2010:

Students’ rehearsals for presentations on Friday and teachers continued with the seventh point of our tasks: How to be successful in the labor market?.

After talking about the main points of this work we decided that students, split up in three international groups, should prepare posters or/and a Power Point presentation as a final product of the work, which should be ready after three work sessions organized in this way:

  • First session (1h): Students and all teachers in these three groups will make a list of words for successful careers, in order to know which the needed skills are.
  • Second session (3h): Analyze the educational steps to get a specific job. During the first hour all teachers will stay with students but the other 2 hours coordinator and some teachers will work on their own tasks.
  • Third session (2h): Students will prepare their posters. They can bring with them magazines and the Romanian school will prepare some materials as well. They can also take photos or materials from the internet. During the second hour the coordinator and some teachers will work on their own.


As Romanian team is in charge of this common work, the Romanian coordinator will send all information about this work and a guide to help students with their task at the end of June.

We went on with point eighth: suggestions about common activities which involve all school next year. We found very interesting to have our own song, so that the Polish coordinator offered to find the music that could be suitable for our song, and the Lithuanian coordinator offered her help to organize the process to follow with the elaboration of the lyrics of the song, which could be similar to the process of voting our logo, a first competition at each school and a final international competition through our Webpage. The whole process should be finished before the fifth meeting in France.

As the time for this work session was over, we decided to finish the last two points by email and allowed the computing Spanish teacher to show us how to upload all materials to our Webpage.

FRIDAY 11/6/2010:

TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ MEETING.

The three international groups of students presented the results of their researches. After that, students and teachers joined in national groups and evaluated the presentations with the support of the document that had been prepared in advance. We chose the winner international group, group number two, although all of them did a great work!!.

We all completed the post meeting questionnaires to evaluate our meeting. The Polish team has to take out the results of the preliminary and post meeting evaluation and send the results to the coordinator of the Project. We will analyze these results in our next meeting in Romania and their conclusions will be written.

Summary of Agreements

  • To prepare a general certificate with the names and nationality of all people attending the meeting for each coordinator.
  • We all have to do a final report online, print it and send a copy to our National Agencies and also to our Ministry of Education before the 30th June, together with all products that we have made in this first year.
  • The Spanish coordinator will send the report of the meeting before 15th June and all the countries have to send the translated document before 18th June.
  • On 18th June, Spanish team will copy the Webpage.
  • On 19th June, Spanish coordinator will post the CD with the copy of our Webpage to all the countries participating in the project.
  • The Spanish coordinator asks the photos to be sent with a small title and 600 pixels wide.
  • We have to study in our next meeting what to do to have a  more attractive Webpage for students
  • Poland will finish the translation of the second meeting report as soon as possible, because it should be done by now.
  • For the following meetings and as our Polish and Romanian teams have done in the last two meetings, a draft of the programme will be presented in the previous meeting by the French team.
  • The Polish team will take out the results of the preliminary and post meeting questionnaires of this third meeting; we will check them in Romania.
  • For next meeting, all of us have to present three contemporary careers from each country, with the title: “The Key to a successful career in …..?
  • We will analyze the results of third meeting evaluations in our next meeting in Romania and their conclusions will be written.
  • The Romanian team is in charge of the next common work, so they will send the whole information to all coordinators at the end of June.
  • Each country should try to upload their material directly to our Webpage.



Meeting each other again has been a marvellous experience. Thank you very much to everybody for your interest, enthusiasm, effort and work.

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY!!!!

Sign:

Mº  del Carmen Martínez Arroyo

Coordinator of the Project

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 10:19