Conference 2011: Results of Evaluation of the project - Partnerinterview - Coffeeshop
Partnerinterview
Question 1: What has the impact and benefit due to our project been on your pupils?
- better understanding of ecology + energy ressources
- better English and English skills
- better IT-competences
- knowing foreign cultures
- pupils have learned about water and energy
- awareness about environment and friendship
- awaremess focus - the 2 keywords: 1. to be aware of and 2. to focus on
- the pupils have learned but for them to change habits the subjects of energy and water have to be discussed more often. have to be part of their everday life
- pupils have learned to work together
- coorperation and understanding
- cultural exchange (greenweek festival)
- started to think in a green way
- thinking about comsuming habits (food, water, energy, public transport)
- save electricity and water
- started biking and recycling
- enjoy friendship
Question 2: How would you describe your cooperation about the project with colleagues at home and from the other schools?
- time consuming to meet the deadline
- hard work to get the results
- branch teachers needed (for example: biology, science, etc.)
- voru: splendid
- brondby: difficult 2. year
- together: fantastic
- not enough personal relations
- coorporation has somme mas been difficult
- at home- ok - no need for great cooperation
- other schools: ok - succeeded to exchange products
- cooperation between teachers on own school
- chasnging ideas
- inspired each other
- keeping on contacts
- ups and downs with other schools
- fine in our team, difficult in the school
- physiscs, chmestry and natural science teachers
- hard to get support
- irregular in the team
Question 3: How have you evaluated the project with your students / pupils?
- not yet evaluated - maybe later
- no evaluation yet
- no final evaluation
- cz: all pupils (450) had a project day
- visited the project's homepage
- compared the results
- no evaluation with pupils
- using knowledge in the future (physics, chemistry, geography, foreign countries and friends)
- english tests
- files (copenhagen trip)
Question 4: What has the project given you as a teacher personally and professionally?
- became better teacher
- new skills of teaching
- large perseptive in understanding other culture
- exchange personal experiences and skills
- awareness increased
- new friendship with other colleagues
- learned new colleagues and other schools
- good friends
- language skills
- improving English
- better language
- awareness of environment
- learn about school systems
- seeing new places
- knowledge of all things here
- differences/similarities (not negative)
- network (please remain!)
- awareness of other schools and cultures
- importrant to go to the conferences
- personal growth and development
- modesty
- new experiences in organizing projects
- new foreign countries (France, Denmark, Turkey)
- new information about teaching our subjects
- break with a routine
- enriching experienece
- other ways to teach
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Coffeshop
Question 1: What has it given your school to join the project?
CZ:
- awareness of the environment
- international dimension: 6-not-neighbouring countries
- participation at Green Week Festival for children
- pupils conference in Nantes -> language, culture, families
- more positive points for school from educational institutions
- we could buy different things
- equipment needed at our school
- student/teachers broaded mind
- it makes school more attractive and prestigious for students and parents
- cultural exchange
- experience of involving a project
- organizing a conference
- importrance of foreign language
- international openess
- knowledgement about sustainability
- necessity/use of learning English
- higher reputation
- as a school we have an international focus
- we are a multicutural school and the project has given an alternative angle
Question 2: How did we
succeed in fulfilling the superior aims of the project: Awareness,
Knowledge and Change of habits?
CZ:
- Awarenes: successful
- Knowlege: improved
- Change: it's to early to evaluate
- They are aware but only somme of themhave changed their habits
- our students have got knowledge how things could be in Estonia
- Excursions
- Videos
- Exchange of all these with other partner students
- frequent activities
- involved personally
- habits -> long term
- Knowledge: increased
- Awareness: began
- Change: ??
- The pupils joining the project have learned a lot and have got more awareness small change of habits.
- On the long run we will try to integrate change of habits in the everday life of the schools.
Question 3: How did we
succeed in the project to communication and cooperation?
CZ:
- Cz and Dk pupils started on the spring project together
- Czech teacher are learning to cooperate more
- in some groups there weren't any problems
- Yahoo groups
- Website
- team communication -> ups and downs
- good understanding of the objectives
- Communication/cooperation: depends on personal habits
- good: only exchange of results
- we have had many challenges and have learned a lot. In the future we will try to involve pupils more.
Question 4: In what ways
has the international aspect made the project different from ordinary
schoolwork?
CZ:
- implimenting ContentLanguageIntegratedLearning (CLIL) methods
- students could compare Estonian habits, life, people etc. with other countries
- it wouldn't be so interesting
- seeing the same subject from different point of view
- international dimension
- cultures, ways of thinking
- language
- It give the pupils a change to work in a larger context.
- They see other pupils works
Question 5: What have you
done to make the project known in and outside the school?
CZ:
- school homepage
- local newspaper and magazins
- our project is an example project on the national Agency webpage
- school as an election room -> notice board
- In December: Comenius-afternoon
- we present our products on the walls
- after every project meeting we have an article in the local newspaper and the school newspaper
- our headmistress has introduced it at country council
- we introcuded the project to parents
- prepared an billboard
- a project room
- nothing outside the school
- Posters
- link on the schools website
- presentataion to families
- pupils communication
- project board
- link on the schools website
- newsletter to the colleagues
- information of the parents
- we have had exhibitions at school
- local paper
- school board
- school departement
- local government
- parents
Question 6: What aspects
of your school structure has been an advantage or a disadvantage for
the project?
CZ:
- extending language teaching (German, English, French, ...)
- internation cooperation is part of school educational programe
- no possibility for travelling for the whole class
- school leaders support projects
- many topics are included in our curriculum
- administration support
- teachers support
- parents support
- having a project room
- negativ:
- old school -> waste
- difficult to select pupils (trips)
- positive:
- rural area: -> chance
- pupils good at English
- Disadvantages:
- difficult to fit in the curriculum
- extra work
- low support from headmasters
- in our schedule we can work flexible
- the teachers know different subject. That's an advantage
Last update: 2011-04-07
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