etwinning: 50.000 teachers finding partners

50.000 European teachers finding partners

Jornades Pedagògiques de l’Anglès del MontsiàNúria de Salvador

Finding solutionsto improve teaching

Structure andOrganizationPhilosophy behind The action

Portales

Filosofía

eTwinning: Virual partnerships in Europe

Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

HungaryIrelandItaly

LatviaLithuaniaLuxemburg MaltaPolandPortugalSlovakiaSlovèniaSpainSwedenThe NetherlandsUnited kingdomBulgariaRomaniaIcelandNorway

Culturally and cognitively homogeneous groups

Greater cultural variety, mixed ability and learning styles

• Perceive diversity as something positive and enriching

• Experiment how space and time barriers can disappear

• Improve their social abilities• Learn in a more global and inclusive way • Get to know and value themselves better• Develop their ICT competences

Learn from peers, in a practical and plural way

As they can count on the help ofcoordinators, pedagogical advisors and external evaluators

Because it creates a sense of connectiveness with other teachers with similar interests

Imply pupils◦ exploring◦ discovering◦ Sharing and debating◦ Building, connecting,

relating concepts

respond to issues of their own interest

Based on the curriculum

with others that are not physically or synchronously there,

Comunicativa, lingüística

i audiovisualSocial i ciutadana

Tractament de la informació i

competència Digital

Autonomia iIniciativapersonals

Aprendre

a aprendre

Central Support Service (CSS) European Schoolnet is the el CSS of the eTwinning

action • A partnership of European Ministries of Education• Provides coherence to the action at an European

level• It is responsible for the multilingual portal• Helps schools and creates pedagogical materials• Designs ICT tools to provide the necessary

technological infrastructure • is responsible for keeping the action going

They are the national reference of the action at national level and– Aprove partnerships– Keep an eye on registers– Advise and inform their teachers– Design and implement courses and training actions– Act as external evaluators – Organize awards and other competitions

In Spain the NSS is the ISFTIC (former CNICE)– Each Autonomous Community has its own

eTwinning representatives

1 European Commission1 CSS - 29 NSSs5000 partnerships50000 registered teachers

A RELIABLE EUROPEAN NETWORK

CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICE

NATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICE

1. Register2. Find a partner3. Create a project

And your future partner will receive the following message

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Calendar Forum Mailbox Chat Bulletin board My team Settings

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A user-friendly virtual learning environment provided for free to all schools registered in eTwinning

It is safe - only open to the project community It is multilingual Teachers and pupils can communicate and

share documents You can give visibility to your project (public

TwinSpace)

Useful tools A safe environment to find partners and

work together in collaboration Flexible approach to teacher’s aims Awards and recognition Visibility

To find partners - Desktop To work together-

TwinSpace Pedagogical help

(on demand) - Twinblog

NSSs Keep an eye on registrations

Only the people the partners invite have access to the TwinSpace, and there are

parts of it that always remain private

No prescriptions. eTwinning asks for nothing and imposes nothing

It adapts to the needs of teachers and pupils

The duration of projects and the teacher’s level of implication is up to them

External evualuation–Quality labels

◦ Spanish◦ European◦ Catalan way to promote

quality – Innovation certificates

National awards European awards

Quality labels awarded in Spain since 2005 up to August 2008– 84

Catalan quality labels– 18 (21,4%) Total number of quality labels awarded in

year 2007-08– 38 Total of quality labels awarded in year

2007-08 in Catalonia – 12 (31,6%)

2006 – Playing and Learning (Astúries) winner and Values in School Life and School celebrations (Andalusia) runner up for the category 5-12

2007 – EuroFilm Factory (Andalusia) winner for the category 12-15

2008 - My town, your town. Our lives in a calendar winner i Kids H@nd in H@nd (Galicia) runner up category 4-10

2009 – Mind the gap (Catalunya) and No Frontiers (Andalusia) category 12-15

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