Project title: “Building Bridges through Games“.
Participants:
- Coordinating school: Lyseo comprehensive school of Joensuu
- Partner school: IES Miguel de Cervantes – a secondary school of 290 students (aged 12-17) and 32 teachers in a rural area in Fuenteálamo, Albacete, in the southeast of Spain
Duration:
- 2-year-project: autumn 2015 – spring 2017
Project plan and activities
The goal of the project is to explore, create, learn, teach and compare different kinds of games in the participating countries. The main focus is on games other than digital, i.e. traditional and popular board games, card games, outdoor games and party games of the participating countries.
Each school will first carry out some research, prepare materials and presentations on the topic of games in various different subjects. The products and results will then be shared through various channels online with the partner school and finally, the games will be taught, played and compared during a face-to-face student encounter at mobility events.
In the course of the two-year project, through teacher and student mobilities, we also expect to learn about the other country’s educational system and culture in general.
In the Finnish school, the participating subjects are: English, history, physical education, technical work, art, mathematics and IT.
In the Spanish school, the participating subjects are: English, Spanish language, Classical language (Latin and Greek) and mathematics.
Objectives
- to promote the international dimension of education
- to invent and establish new sustainable cross-curricular methods in the regular school curriculum
- to share good pedagogical practices between the partners
- to provide teachers and students opportunities for face-to-face multicultural interaction
- to affect and activate as large number of students as possible in each school
- to increase the motivation of many different kinds of learners in many different subjects by promoting the use of student-centered pedagogical practices
- to improve the digital competence of both students and teachers by enhancing the use of information and communication technologies
- to promote students’ awareness and appreciation of their own cultural heritage
- to promote students’ awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity
- to encourage team work amongst students as well as teachers
- to have a positive and motivating effect on attitudes towards learning and using English by using it as a tool in various subjects and as means of authentic communication
Teacher and student mobilities:
- Autumn 2015 /Spanish teachers visit Lyseo comprehensive school (5 days)
- Spring 2016 /Finnish teachers visit Fuenteálamo, Spain (5 days)
- Autumn 2016/ Spanish students and teachers visit Lyseo comprehensive school (5 days)
- Spring 2017/ Finnish students and teachers visit Fuenteálamo, Spain (5 days)
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