Collage your learning – Mind Map

Topic

The Importance of Education and Motivation to Learn

Age

10-13; 14-15; 16-18

Subject

Foreign language; Mathematics; Natural sciences

Country

Bulgaria; Latvia

General objective

  • To help students to understand their motivation for learning by identifying their passions and strengths, building on these ones for planning future learning.

Learning objective

  • To provide tools to support students to give a structure to their thoughts and to their learning experience.

Results, hints and inspirations from the experimentation

Click on the following boxes, each one will show you the results of project experimentation in each country (and useful suggestions for your implementation).

Bulgaria
Age:

11-16 years old

Subject:

Mathematics, English

Local adaptation:

The activity was carried out according to the guidelines of the manual.

How did the teachers implement the activity?

As explained above, the teacher implemented the activity according to the steps foreseen by the main description.

How did students react to the activity?

Students increased their motivation to learn, developed their communication skills, learned to work in a team and make decisions. Moreover, some of them – according to the evaluation – learned how to provide a structure to their thoughts.

Other comments:

This activity is not suitable for students who are 11 years old.

Latvia
Age:

11-12 years old

Subject:

Natural Science

Local adaptation:

The activity was carried out according to the guidelines of the manual.

How did the teachers implement the activity?

As explained above, the teacher implemented the activity according to the steps foreseen by the main description.

How did students react to the activity?

Despite the young age, this activity was really appreciated by the students: in fact, they really liked the creativity and the possibility to draw their learning process.

Other comments:

N/A

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