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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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