Objectives
- Collaborative working across both schools in the fields of Mathematics and Life Sciences (STEM) Motivate students within STEM careers and languages.
- Cross cultural learning by both sets of students
- Use of technology to experience 'real life' scientific and mathematical theorems
- Opportunity for the UK students to learn the history of many Mathematical concepts by visiting Italy
- Improve foreign language uptake and understanding
- Improve students' problem solving capacity, creativity and critical thinking
- Promote European dimension at schools
- Improve students' key competences
- Improve Students foreign language skills
- Improve students' skills for employability
- Allow for students who would not normally have the opportunity to travel or involve themselves in International cultures.
- Concrete results:
- European Dimension of the learning/teaching process
- Interest of studying foreign languages
- Interest in science, mathematics and ICT
- Transversal skills
- Awareness of lifelong learning
- Possibility for a mobility
- Future employability of young students
- To achieve these goals we will:
- Compare teaching methods to develop the best practices for a common path to improve the learning/teaching process through practical and virtual experiences in the partnership laboratories.
- Converse using technology .
- The mobility’s will encourage students' intrigue and enthusiasm for foreign languages.
- UK students will learn essential basic Italian, improve their interest for this language and to understand the importance of multilingualism;
- IT students, will appreciate that learning English will develop their ability to communicate with the rest of the world, for their future social and economical development
- Take a scientific approach based on fundamental scientific concepts, principles and methods, technology and technological products and processes of essential oils.
- The transnational cooperation will enable students to develop common skills and technological competencies through shared and practical experimental activities.
- We will utilise specific software for virtual experiments and content, to be shared using the school’s virtual learning platform. Results of the experiments will be analysed and processed using statistical methods, allowing pupils to appreciate the use of maths in a real science context.
- Give pupils the opportunity to gain the ability to organise their own learning, including the effective management of time and information, to identify opportunities and overcome obstacles in order to develop and assimilate new skills.
- Students will build on life experiences in order to use and apply a variety of skills and knowledge in different contexts. This will give them motivation and confidence so they will persist and persevere in learning to learn.
- Teachers will not work independently in their own subject but in a cross-curricular way.
- Collaborative learning through use of new technology (eg Virtual Reality)