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United in Diversity

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-UK01-KA229-048304
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 68,902.3 EUR

United in Diversity

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"This project aims to explore via MFL, Spanish, German, French and British heritage and how we can conjugate our unique identity with being part of a larger entity: Europe, by learning how Europe's heritage is made up of the diversity of all its nations, which is a key element to understand and explore in today's context, especially after Brexit. At the same time, from a Teaching and Learning point of view, the project also aims to measure the impact of innovative ICT practices and transnational collaboration in increasing motivation and language uptake in all students, while developing innovative ways to ensure sustainable investment in learning.The teaching of MFL in the UK is becoming increasingly difficult and in other countries is perceived as a necessary subject but frequently too academically orientated. This project, by making cross curricular links with other themes and putting transnational collaboration in the core; allows teachers to add a unique practical element to the teaching of languages (use of Project Based Learning) which, we believe, will be the future of language teaching and learning in the future. The project will allow us to assess such practices and disseminate these with other countries while embedding them in the curriculum. The project has 7 clear objectives: 1. Raising awareness of the importance of Europe’s cultural heritage and its diversity within a common project. 2. Supporting social inclusion and tolerance, developing critical thinking and youth engagement in the community and beyond. 3. Development of linguistic skills in the TL within the curriculum. 4. In the case of the British school: increase/ positive impact in numbers of students wanting to study their chosen TL to GCSE and/or Alevel. 5. Use of innovative practices via technology to enhance collaboration and language acquisition. 6. Development of advanced digital skills within an educational context. 7.Motivation of disengaged students via the use of digital technologies. Objectives 5, 6 and 7 clearly develop our main priority of : ""Open education and innovative practices in a digital era"". Objectives 1 to 4 are linked to the development of relevant and high quality skills and competences. We believe all the 7 objectives, also,promote the acquisition of key skills and competences, not only from a language point of view but also culturally and politically as the project develops tolerance, critical thinking and understanding of different cultures and traditions, long term benefits. There will be 82 participants from four different countries. Organisations will select students due to their own background context and educational priorities as schools. All participants will be invited to join the programme taking into account: disaffection in the learnign of MFL, being gifted and talented students or disadvantaged students. The project is divided in two distinctive parts: Part one will focus on specific collaborative teaching and learning tasks which will be done by all participants in their own schools and which will not involve mobility but will set up a key foundation for the second part of the project (mobility). During this first part, the role of the teachers involved in the project will be to lead discussion in TL about key elements such as stereotypes, heritage, diversity, tolerance, which will also foster linguistic skills as well as critical thinking in all participants. Outcomes from these activities will be shared via etwinning and will require the use of new technologies as a way to develop innovative ways to ensure learning and enhance motivation to learn MFL in our students. The collaborative factor and the fact that participants' outcomes will have a real audience will contribute to increasing motivation too. Part two of the project will consist of 4 different activities, which will require mobility and will allow participants to meet the students they worked collaboratively with throughout part one. The core of the project lies in the fact that it is rich and ambitious and supports three parallel visits after 6 months in the project: Mobility of UK students to Spain, Germany and La Reunion. This mobility is key to continue understanding each other's heritage, develop analytical skills while developing linguistic acquisition with a clear task in mind after this visit: joint videos where heritages elements of the both countries in contact are present. Finally, within part two, activity 4 will be the absolute climax of the project, when all participants from all different countries will meet in the UK and will work towards two clear outcomes: the creation of a multilingual promotional video about Europe's Heritage and a physical mural illustrating all participant countries’ heritage."

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