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The project 'SEA: Schools of Europe Ateliers' is part of the internationalization strategy that Marco Polo has begun starting from the 2015/2016 school year. Capitalizing on the experience accumulated over the years in the organization of short-term mobility, study trips and exchanges for students, the School has shown a progressive orientation towards 'life-long learning' training also for teachers who through a bottom-up collaborative process have contributed to the final project proposal by expressing needs, providing ideas, identifying objectives and planning activities, sharing contacts with potential partners. The general purpose of the Project was to strengthen the internationalization process of the School and to improve the educational approach through the learning of innovative methodologies already tested in other European countries, to observe the application of new technologies in the pedagogical context, as well as to find new stimuli in terms of the students' skills assessment, with particular reference to extracurricular courses.Of the 33 planned mobilities (31 teachers and 2 administrative staff) - despite having obtained an extension of 12 months - due to Covid-19 it was possible to carry out only 27 mobilities (25 professors and 2 administrative staff) for a total of 21 women and 6 men, belonging to various disciplinary departments (Italian and History, English, Spanish, German, Economics, Motor Sciences, Special Needs Teachers). Regarding the 25 teachers, they experienced a Job shadowing activity carried out in 8 schools in France, Spain, Norway, Germany, Finland, while the short training course for technical-administrative staff was developed in Belgium at the organization BLX Europe. The staff followed a training offer dedicated to the topics of European planning, the organization of international travel and the planning and management of PCTOs. Professors in Job shadowing participated at the teaching activities in the partner schools by attending classroom lectures, as well as extra-curricular activities carried out by the students. They also had the opportunity to participate in coordination meetings, with Principal, professors and administrative staff, as well as the teaching Board Committee in the different institutes. In terms of dissemination, the Project saw the creation of a 'Bazaar' for Marco Polo teachers and a territorial Workshop for the community of external stakeholders (regional, national and international), both carried out in September 2019. At the same time it was developed and continuously updated the page dedicated to the SEA project published on the School's website, which constituted the 'virtual square' for sharing storytelling articles, experiences and methodologies developed by each of the participating teachers. Due to Covid-19 it was not possible to organize the second round of planned dissemination events, replaced instead with the creation by the students of the Marco Polo of multimedia materials based on the stories of the teachers' experiences. After a careful analysis of the main issues that emerged from the teachers' stories, the students created a sort of 'booklet of postcards from Erasmus' and mini video interviews disseminated both on the social channels of the Marco Polo students, and among the teaching staff and also visible from the outside.The main result that emerged is concerning the improvement of personal and social relationships within the school, the increase of teachers' awareness regarding the importance of confronting what is 'other' and often distant from one's own 'comfort zone ', the introduction of new teaching approaches inside and outside the classroom, and the attempt to apply new ways of assessing students' skills. On an operational level, one of the most concrete result was the participation of a group of teachers in the training course for European planning which subsequently led to the establishment of the Erasmus Working Group, formally born in September 2020. This group worked constantly also during the lockdown, coming to elaborate both the proposal for the Schools' Erasmus Accreditation (unfortunately not approved), and a new project proposal for the mobility of the School Staff presented in May 2021 (under assessment). Without forgetting that the strengthening of the network of relationships with other European Institutes has given rise to new collaborations and strategic partnerships. Last but not least, the Institute welcomed some of the ideas reported by the teachers' experiences regarding the experimentation of spaces, especially in the Scandinavian context and today the School has a new multipurpose library, areas for sharing and informal socialization both indoor and outdoor.
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