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Living in a Rural Area

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-ES01-KA229-082829
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 121,484 EUR

Living in a Rural Area

Description

This project started with the willingness of motivating our pupils to value the rural area where they live, to defend environmental sustainability and promote their local products. For this reason, four schools from France, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain with a similar background decided to start a partnership. Our schools are placed in a rural area, where agriculture and livestock are the main sources of income, and rural-urban migration is gradually growing. After analysing the results of a survey done to our students through an eTwinning project, we realized that most of them share the same opinion: they want to leave from their villages and towns and demand the defense and promotion of their territories and environmental preservation. There are about 200/250 students involved directly in this project (96 in mobilities) and it is addressed to young learners aged 13-14, some of them with social and financial problems, who receive financial support, and others with learning difficulties. Our objectives are very clear: we want our students to be aware of the richness of their rural areas, encourage them to have healthy, environmental and sustainable habits, respect and protect nature and also value their local products. We also want to help pupils to improve their digital skills while carrying out the tasks of the project, using English as the language of communication. We also want to promote cooperation, solidarity, and teamwork as a way of improving pupils' motivation and engagement and support their development of key competences.The activities will include:-visiting local businesses, for example, olive oil mills, fruit processing plants, and farms to learn all the processes of elaboration, production, and distribution;-learning to cook traditional dishes with local products following some recipes;-going on some field trips to explore the countryside around to learn about biodiversity and its preservation;-doing some outdoor sports activities;-exchanging emails, videos, presentations and creating some ebooks with all the information, using ICT tools such as Twinspace to develop strategic skills;-creating posters online to promote the protection of the environment.The results of their work will be spread through social media such as Twinspace and other platforms.Cross-curricular teaching using the English language in more than one subject area will help pupils relate the knowledge from different school subjects. It will improve the digital and language skills necessary for collaboration and further professional development.There will be an Erasmus+ project team in each school formed by several coordinators each one with different roles: learning- teaching materials creators, economic managers, communication-cooperation coordinators, and dissemination-evaluation coordinators. For a better organization, we will create a shared folder in Google Drive where each coordinator will keep their documents. In the activities and teaching-learning materials folder there will be a schedule of all the activities planned and a set of organised and available ready-to-use worksheets. In the economic and management folder, spreadsheets documents will be used to control the expenses of the partners. In the communication and cooperation folder, there will be a Google Sites document used as a global web page created to upload all the documentation produced during the project and also documents of the meetings and agreements between the partners. Twinspace and other platforms will be used to make our project known to the rest of the world. Finally, the dissemination and cooperation coordinator will have a folder with baseline and endline surveys to evaluate if we have achieved our objectives and also to know the opinions of everybody involved in the project.The impact will be measured at two levels: quantitative and qualitative. The first one will be checked through surveys and assessment questionnaires. The latter will be focused on the change in students’ motivation level and self-confidence to become active citizens in the promotion and defense of their environment. The system of checking and measuring results will be present on every stage of the project. The effects of the project will be profitable for the whole school community and local institutions. On the one hand, both teachers and students will have a better command of the English language, they will improve ICT skills and teamwork. As teachers, we will have the opportunity to know other school systems and so, develop the pedagogical and didactic level of our schools by exchanging new teaching methods and techniques. By carrying out project-based work, we want our students to be more creative, autonomous and critical. It will increase student self-confidence and responsibility. They will have the opportunity of having new international friends and will be more conscious of the different cultures, geographical and situations.

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