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NEWSLETTER #3 - DROP’IN

Who is involved in the project?

• 12 teachers per country of first and second level secondary schools.
  
• More than 3,200 students between 12 and 18 years old in the 5 countries involved.
  

Activities

• DROP INSIGHT
  
• EDUC'ACTION: THE EDUCATION IN ACTION!
  
• DROP'INVOLVE: Teachers' training
  
• DROP'IN ACTION: EXPERIMENTATION & VALORISATION  
• POLICY PAPER: DROP' INSPIRATION

What's the status of the DROP'IN project?

DROP'IN project started its implementation, in going directly into schools. Between January and February all the schools involved implemented the Peer to Peer Trainings, i.e. some day of training sessions organized by teachers who had participated in the Drop'involve in Dax ( France).

 

The aim of the peer training was to give teachers the opportunity to experiment with non-formal methodologies by training and involving their colleagues. These training days were held with the support of experts in non-formal education to test the activities developed in the catalogue EDUCATION: THE EDUCATION IN ACTION! and to highlight strengths and weaknesses so as to complete it in its final version to disseminate.

 

After February the next steps were shortly interrupted by the COVID19 emergency that affected the whole of Europe.  Between March and November 2020, the project was scheduled to start an important step:

 

DROP'IN ACTION: EXPERIMENTATION & VALORISATION

An online and multilingual portfolio with the aim of transmitting and describing the experimentation of non-formal techniques and above all making visible the results and impact of the methods tested.

 

The partnership, despite the emergency, has decided to continue its work and also to tackle a health-related issue. The world of education is in these days wondering how to deal with this emergency without damaging the right to study of students.  Distance learning has begun in in many of the European cities and it going in the day life of teachers, students and families.

 

DROP'IN project questions how distance learning can be useful trying not to leave anyone behind. 

 

What's happening in our partner countries?

IN FRANCE

In order to allow the immediate availability of online pedagogical sessions, the academies, regional representative of the Ministry of National Education in France, can rely on the CNED's (Centre National d’education a Distance) dedicated platform, ‘Ma classe à la maison’ (My Classroom at Home) in order to facilitate the access of the different scholar establishment to the learning by distance. Each session is dedicated to a discipline and is built around a specific topic and objectives. Each session contains self-correcting activities that they carry out directly online. Students can access each work session as many times as they wish and can pick up where they left off during their previous consultation. The estimated time to complete a session is one hour. Summaries of the essential notions to remember close the sessions or groups of sessions. 

 

 

IN ITALY

Italian Government decided to close school on the 5th of March 2020, as part of the measures to limit contact between people and to slow down the spread of the virus. At the beginning schools provided digital support to teachers by suggesting the use of various e-learning platforms enabling us and our students to work and interact together: after several attempts a single platform, Google suite, was adopted. Now teachers are trying to vary their lessons to suit the new conditions but several problems have emerged. First of all, we have found out that: a great number of students use mobiles to follow everyday lessons; most of them haven’t a PC or when they have, it has to be shared with siblings; only a few of them have their own room, therefore when there are two or more children, it’s very difficult for them to get a good learning environment; in some cases parents leave house to go work and children miss lessons simply because they wake up too late; The internet connection doesn’t always work properly .

 

IN BULGARIA

A pedagogical continuity has been put in place to maintain regular contact between students and their teachers. In the current situation of the COVID-19 schools in Bulgaria are closed and training is provided online. Schools will remain closed until the end of the school year, requiring all learning activities to be adapted to the online environment. The Ministry of Education in Bulgaria and the Regional Inspectorate of Education provided various educational platforms and materials to the schools. Each school has the opportunity to choose the most appropriate learning platform for it to facilitate access to distance learning. 119 SU has been working with the school's electronic journal for two years and uses a common Google platform. All students, teachers and parents have their own accounts and passwords, making it easy to go online. The platform offers: Google Classroom, Google Meet - for conducting online meetings, the opportunity for online activities, series of lessons, study sessions, recording exercises, presentations, direct contact with teachers. A timetable has been set up for the various subjects, which creates a good organization of work and a smoother transition to online learning. The logbook gives you the opportunity to evaluate the results, give assignments and contact parents in real time.

 

IN LATVIA

On March 13, 2020, an emergency situation was declared in Latvia, which means that public events were being restricted, as well as schools’ lessons was being stopped. The state of emergency was maintained until 12 May 2020. What this state of emergency meant to teachers. This mainly meant a radical change in the learning process. From face-to-face contact to work from distance using the Internet and modern technologies offer. For teachers, this time is also their own learning time, as they have to learn how to work from distance using Zoom, YouTube, Facebook and other platforms. Of course, each teacher uses their own approaches, some use web tools to assign tasks to students, others use video conferencing to conduct lessons remotely, others create YouTube videos.  We all believe that together we can overcome the crisis and we all get new skills and also new opportunities to spend time with our families.

 

Next steps

The DROP’IN project will continue the experimentation also through distance learning channels so as to implement the activities developed and develop an online portfolio that will be an integral part of the Policy Paper DROP’IN-spiration : A policy document with recommendations addressed to policy makers. The document will be distributed on a European scale, giving each partner the opportunity to disseminate the activities at national and local level.

 

 

 8 partners, 5 countries involved: 

 

1. PISTES SOLIDAIRES (Coordinator, France)
2. COLLEGE ROSA PARKS (France)
3. GULBENS NOVADA DOME (Latvia)
4. CENTRO PER LO SVILUPPO CREATIVO DANILO DOLCI (Italy)
5. ISTITUTO SUPERIORE “DUCA ABRUZZI” LIBERO GRASSI (Italy)
6. KNOW AND CAN ASSOCIATION (Bulgaria)
7. 119 SECONDARY SCHOOL “ACADEMICIAN MIHAIL ARNAUDOV” (Bulgaria)
8. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LEUVEN (Belgium)

Project duration

 

01/09/2018 - 28/02/2021

 

For further information:

 

federica.lamantia@danilodolci.org

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