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Comenius 1.3 School Development Project. Evaluation: an important step to quality improvement in education.
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Comenius 1.3SchoolDevelopment Project Evaluation: an important step to quality improvement in education
The project lasts –potentially – 3 years, according to the old Socrates scheme,concluded in 2006: every year a new application must be presented to the various European Agencies for evaluation... In this way, last year, we acquired the cooperation of 2 new partner schools: I.E.S. Los Cardones,Tenerife, and Forave, Portugal: together with Veikkola we have applied for the renewal for 2007/08.
2° year: 2006/2007 ITCG “Mattei”, Italia, Coordinator Partner Schools • VeikkolanKoulu, Finland • I.E.S. Los Cardones ,Tenerife, Spain • (new partner) • Escola Profissional e Tecnologica Vale Do Ave, Portugal (new partner)
Last year, 2005/06, we had a British partner, The Bradbourne School , that has worked little on the program: they missed a reference teacher and decided to leave. • We also have two associated partners: • Comune di Decimomannu • Comune di Assemini
We want: • To understand strengths and weaknesses of our schools; enhance the former and find a solution to the latter; so as • to raise language, computer, geography, cultural competences in all participants, for a school more autonomous and European.
Activities carried out in two years: A) A school survey on sample groups of students B) Project meetings: visitsofteachers – and students • to monitor lessons • compare each other • socialize • evaluate the previous work and plan the future
with questionnaires,observation, comments, discussions; The survey: environment, competences, methods of work ,organization, reputation. … on the areas: The data: processed, commented and disseminated with ICT.
A) Results: information in a period of….. For Mattei, Italy : 4 years Finland : 3 yearsNew partner: 1 year • How much do you trust teachers? They reply “A lot/enough” -in %%%%%%: Processed/exchanged/printed/ commented/…. An example??
A bit surprising the negative 6% in the IT family Confirmed by a sense of identity in the groups –generally much weaker than the other schools
What’s the general attitude towards school?? Positive enough – in fact only a minority replies “No” …. And also positive is the reaction to:
Sometimes the replies are very similar…… But they can also differ significantly
They express a sense of discomfort- familiar to us- both in“50” and in“51”, even if they are aware of their laziness in (52)
Open tocomments …. Expected, the differences in PC and the use of the Net…..
To see our project products, two e-journals: • “Being Young in Europe” http://www.ejournal.fi/mattei1/ • “Our Fantasy Workshop” http://www.ejournal.fi/mattei2/
B) Travels, visits, meetings, exchanges… • 2005/06 1.Mattei visits Veikkola - 12/‘05 2. Mattei and Veikkola visit UK, March 06 3. Finland meets Sardinia, final meeting year 1 • 2006/07 4 Tenerife (end Nov.06) 5 March 07, all in Finland, also two Spanish students: to see a different reality and to plan the renewal 6 April 07: Mattei visits FORAVE, Portugal 7.Final meeting in Decimomannu, May ‘07
An now???? In a few days 20/27 May Final Meeting N° 6 In Decimomannu!!!
Italy: Laura / Bernarda / Roberta / Giovanna / Carmela / Graziano / Tiziana etc……. Tenerife: José / Felipe / Ana Finland: Kati / Aino / Hannu with Elisa e Rina Portugal: Teresa e Carlos, withCatarina and Joao
Timetable for the week: Welcome • Monitoring of lessons • Evaluation of previous work for joint final report • Trips to Barumini/Nora/Chia/Is Zuddas.. • Dinner together