TWAY
TWAY
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Students are usually passive participants at all the educational levels in our traditional learning systems. Their creativeness is not encouraged, nor are they challenged to think critically and originally. On completing the process of formal education, they are capable of more or less successfully reproducing the information they learned in the course of their schooling.
The project’s objective is to foster teachers’ ability to actively involve students in the education process by offering different (extra) curricular activities that can be performed out of school, such as home schooling, after school activities and other activities based on non-formal education methods
OBJECTIVES
The Teachers Way consortium will:
- Identify and analyse different forms of out-of-school education that can be performed by teachers at school outside the normal class – hours.
- Develop a guideline and training module with tips and recommendation to help teachers to organize different types of the out-off-school learning activities for their pupils.
- Prepare a learning platform for trainers and teachers used as a depository for the Teachers’ way products and results.
- Promote the use of out-of-school education offered by teachers in the participating schools.
RESULTS
The partnership undertakes to produce the following results, based on research and analysis activities conducted in each countries partners:
- The Toolkit for Teachers will consist of analysis of legal forms of out-of-school education , description of different forms and practices of out-of-school education, guide and tips (recommendations) for teachers on how to organize different types of the out-of-school learning activities for their pupils including the good practices in organizing the out-of-school activities from partner countries and from outside. The Toolkit could be used by the teachers and parents of children of different age, going to primary or secondary schools not only in the partner countries, but also other EU states, after adaptation to the country’s legal requirements.
- The Learning Platform will comprise of two parts. The first part will be the training modules for trainers, which they could use for designing their own training for teachers. The training modules will cover the following topics:
- Diagnosis of the needs of the child in the area of out-of-school education.
- Self-analysis as a patent and identifying own skills.
- Skills of active listening needed to enable the child obtain the skills of solving problems independently.
- Skills of effective communication with the child and better mutual understanding in different situations.
The second part of the Learning Platform will comprise of different materials concerning non-formal learning activities. They could be used by the trainers of teachers and the teachers themselves.