Our student of 1st batxillerat, Ismael Aawil, has created a fantastic video of the mobility in Sicily. Enjoy!
Students: Cristina Rodríguez, Awa Coulibaly, Paula Martínez, Ismael Aawil
Teachers: Nati Castillo and Carme García.
It's the blog of the Erasmus + project 2016 - 2018, which is about finding out ways to motivate the students and reduce anxiety in classes.
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Meeting with the Erasmus students: distributions of tasks
We met at break time to decide who was going to do what. See the full page here.
Now everyone's happy because the tasks have been equally distributed. Team work!
Now everyone's happy because the tasks have been equally distributed. Team work!
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Tasks to be done in Finland
Activity No. C4: Finland, February 2018
An investigation into how to motivate students in the EFL classroom. Emphasis will be placed on ICT
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Activities
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Outcomes of the meeting
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Workshop: Presentation of the results of the interviews on the teaching/ strategies which students perceive as increasing their motivation in the EFL classroom - follow up discussion
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Presentation / video of the presentations uploaded onto the webpage
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Posters on teaching strategies which increase student motivation in the Science / Maths classroom (prepared between meetings) are displayed for dissemination.
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Photographs of the posters will be uploaded onto the webpage and produced to go into Science / Maths classrooms.
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Workshop for teachers and students: How ICT can be integrated into EFL teaching. Brain storming of ideas by both students and teachers.
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Results (list of ideas produced) will be upload in the webpage by the Finnish hosts. (Key outcome of the project)
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Focus group discussion for students: how students feel about ICT in EFL learning and how they would like to see it used in the classroom / for autonomous learning. The students prepare a wish list (in groups).
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The wish lists - directed to EFL teachers – are combined to produce one more complete list which is uploaded onto the webpage
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Trip to local schools – questionnaires will be administered to an EFL class in each
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Additional data related to the teaching strategies, classroom motivation and classroom anxiety from other local schools (this will (1) increase our sample size (2) increase reliability of results as our data will be more representative (3) generate the inclusion of further schools within the community therefore widening the impact of our project).
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Workshop: results from the data collected on the use of teaching strategies and motivation in the EFL classroom
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Upload the results on the use of teaching strategies and motivation in the EFL classroom onto web page
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Brief workshop: The newly collected data, on EFL motivation, will be compared with that of the partner school collected in November, 2016.
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Similarities and contrasts will be made in textual form (a paragraph or two) and uploaded to the central web page.
(Key outcome for the whole project)
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Local excursion
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Create a “Tree of learning”- Theme Motivation in EFL
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Tree of learning is permanently displayed in the Finnish school
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Sports morning or afternoon – team sports which encourage collaboration
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Video of the event – to be uploaded onto the webpage
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Workshop: evaluation of the results of the meeting and suggestions for the next meeting
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Minutes of the meeting to be uploaded onto the webpage (project diary section)
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In their mixed groups, students prepare 2 minute films demonstrating how student motivation can be improved using teaching strategies (‘role play’) from each school – these will be presented on the final day.
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Upload the video onto youtube, the schools’ Erasmus webpage and the project webpage.
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Friday, 27 October 2017
Information meeting on anxiety and motivation in the English and Science classes
We had a meeting with the Heads of Department of our school, together with members of the Directive board to tell them about the combined result of the surveys (500) and interviews (150) that all the partner countries had carried out in their schools. The results were very similar and teachers at INS Marina showed an interest in the outcome.
After the mobility in Sicily
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES A5
Following the mobility to Italy, October 2017- April 2018
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Activities by the students / teachers
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Outcomes conducted by the students/ teachers
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Poster: students design a poster showing teaching strategies which increase motivation in the Science classroom
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The best poster from each school, is brought to the next meeting to be entered into a central competition.
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Post-meeting videos of the visit to be made and posted on the webpage
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Webpage videos
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Organize a lesson on Cornell’s method or “ 6R” (how to take notes)
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Webpage slides on “ 6R”
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Teachers explain to students the “Flipped classroom” learning process and assess if it increases their motivation in the Science and EFL classrooms.
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Webpage video
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“Lella Arcadia competition”
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Photos in the “Erasmus Corner”
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School based presentations of results – in local schools.
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(Dissemination of results)
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Our Finnish partners organize and plan all activities related to Activity C4
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Webinar organized by our Finnish partners on their plans and expectations for C2
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Each partner school prepares a presentation of the results of the interviews on the teaching strategies / behaviours which students perceive as increasing their motivation in the EFL classroom
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PowerPoint
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The Cypriot partners continue working on the intellectual output O2 based on the data collected by all students
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Dissemination by all schools of the results of activity C3 as described in the section on dissemination.
Each partner school must document on the webpage how they have done this
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Each school informs the project webpages (school, main etc) on how they have disseminated the results and to whom.
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Students are split into mixed groups and given a subtheme/branch for the “Tree of learning” that will be constructed during C4. They then work through on line cooperation in order to share and develop ideas.
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The groups bring their collective ideas to C4 where they will work together in creating the Tree of learning.
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Thursday, 7 September 2017
Friday, 30 June 2017
Teachers' meeting: results on Science Motivation surveys + info about the evaluation results of the mobility in Barcelona
I had a meeting with the departments of Science and Mathematics to tell them about the results of the 100 surveys that students of 3 ESO and 1 BATX answered. We must say the results were not very good, but now the teachers are aware of what needs to be improved.
I also had a meeting with all the teachers, together with the directive board, and told them about what the ideal science and maths class is for them. These ideas were taken from the open-ended questions at the end of the questionnaire, as well from the interviews.
(b) the 10 most common responses to the open question (final question on the questionnaires) and interviews (combined)
(c) the 5 most demotivating strategies & behaviours (data from the interviews).
I also informed the teachers about the evaluation that both teachers and students made of the mobility in Barcelona:
You can read the results here (in Catalan).
I also had a meeting with all the teachers, together with the directive board, and told them about what the ideal science and maths class is for them. These ideas were taken from the open-ended questions at the end of the questionnaire, as well from the interviews.
Here's the list (in Catalan) of the three columns that we were asked to produce:
(a) the 10 most commonly used teaching strategies & behaviours.(b) the 10 most common responses to the open question (final question on the questionnaires) and interviews (combined)
(c) the 5 most demotivating strategies & behaviours (data from the interviews).
Presentation of the ideal Science and Mathematics class (Catalan)
I also informed the teachers about the evaluation that both teachers and students made of the mobility in Barcelona:
You can read the results here (in Catalan).
Monday, 26 June 2017
Monday, 22 May 2017
The digital survey on Science motivation has been created
The Erasmus students Pepe and Pedro have created the digital version of the survey on science motivation and there're already some answers. Ismael was in charge of translating the test into Catalan. Sergio and Paula P have added posters to the mural and soon there will be words regarding the mobility in La Llagosta on the branches. This is good team work :)
Saturday, 20 May 2017
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Phase 2 of the project: The research part :How to motivate our students
Instead of statistical presentations like the ones presented in Lithuania (and in Spain), students will present something simpler and instantly usable for dissemination.
They will produce lists of
(a) the 10 most commonly used teaching strategies & behaviours
(b) the 10 most common responses to the open question (final question on the questionnaires) and interviews (combined)
(c) the 5 most demotivating strategies & behaviours (data from the interviews).
They will then compare and contrast (and present as a summary in any way they like) the teachers’ perceived use of strategies & behaviours with student beliefs about which strategies & behaviours motivate them. Eg: The results may show that teachers never / rarely use humour as a strategy / behaviour in their lessons … but students feel this motivates them. OR Experiments are commonly conducted and these motivate. Based on, of course, YOUR population’s results.
The above mentioned summary can be used to make suggestions to teachers in our schools.
Below are a few practical notes which may help our students to understand better where to find the information they need for these tasks.
1) The questionnaire data for Science and EFL will be used to make the lists of:
- The ten most commonly used strategies / behaviours by teachers (according to student perceptions) in Science / Mathematics lessons
- The ten most commonly used strategies / behaviours by teachers (according to student perceptions) in EFL lessons.
1st = most used… 10th = 10th most used. *see example below
2) The open questions (Q. 24 in the EFL and Q. 21 in the Science questionnaires) will allow us to make a list of strategies and behaviours students find motivational.
3) We all already have the interview comments on motivation for both the Science and EFL settings. The students will be able to combine the interview comments with the students’ responses from the final question on the questionnaires to create one list for Science and one for EFL.
4) We already have the interview comments on Demotivation in the Science and EFL classrooms so nothing needs doing here.
VOLUNTARY EXTRA PART
I am only mentioning this because we have decided to do this at Lykeio Polemidion. No one else needs to do it if they do not want to. It was not a part of our project proposal. IF any of you DO want to do it, it might be interesting to compare our centralised school system with a more autonomous school system.
The students will conduct short interviews with volunteer teachers. The list of strategies which students find motivational will be shown to these teachers (see number 3 above). The aim is to learn from teachers how much the curriculum and syllabus affects their choice of strategies used in lessons. Is there sufficient time available to conscientiously try to include some of the possible strategies? Would the strategies be appropriate? If not, which are not (in general or for a particular age group / group of students).
* EXAMPLE: The rank order of perceived Motivational Strategies and Behaviours use
Show that they respect, accept and care about each of their students
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Give clear instructions
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Make sure grades reflect not only your achievement but also the effort you put into in the task.
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Establish a good relationship with the students
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Create a supportive and pleasant classroom climate where students are free from embarrassment and ridicule
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Notice students’ contributions and progress, and provide them with positive feedback
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Motivate you by increasing the amount of English they use in class.
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Show their enthusiasm for teaching English by being committed.
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Familiarize the learners with the cultural background of the English language
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Try to be themselves in front of the class without putting on an artificial ‘mask’, and sharing with you their hobbies, likes and dislikes
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Monday, 8 May 2017
Tasks to be done after the mobility in La Llagosta
- Surveys on motivation. Interviews on motivation (before the course ends).
- Post-meeting videos of the visit to be made and posted on the webpage
- Our Italian partners will organize and plan all activities related to Activity C3. Webinar organized by the Italian school related to their plans and expectations for C2 (the mobility in Sicily)
- Each school prepares a presentation based on the results of the interviews regarding the teaching strategies which students perceive as increasing their motivation in the Science classroom, in preparation for the mobility to Italy.
- Posters to be designed by students as a way of discussing findings from C2 and disseminating their results with fellow students in their school. Theme: anxiety reducing teaching strategies in the EFL classroom. Photographs of the posters will be uploaded onto the webpage and produced to go into science / mathematics classrooms within their schools and local schools. (Dissemination). Photographs of the posters will be uploaded onto the webpage and produced to go into science / mathematics classrooms within their schools and local schools. (Dissemination)
- Dissemination by all schools of the results of activity C2 as described in the section on dissemination. Each partner school must document on our web page how they have done this. Each school informs the project webpages (school, main etc) on how they have disseminated the results and to whom
- Students are split into mixed groups and given a subtheme/branch for the “Tree of learning” that will be constructed during C3. They then work through on line cooperation in order to share and develop ideas.
- Webinar on how to reduce student anxiety in the Science & EFL classrooms. Perhaps a joint venture by our Spanish and Lithuanian partners, who hosted mobilities centred on this strand of the project.
- Articles in schools magazine on the Erasmus project, activities and experiences during the first year of the project with a focus on classroom anxiety.
Friday, 5 May 2017
FAREWELL DINNER.
ERASMUS PARENTS, STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WERE ALL INVITED TO THE LAST DINNER TOGETHER. THE FAMILIES BROUGHT THE FOOD AND THE SCHOOL PROVIDED THE DRINKS.
BARCELONA'S SCAVENGER HUNT
THE TEACHER OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND NATI ORGANIZED A SCAVENGER HUNT WHICH STARTED IN EL CLOT AND FINISHED IN THE BARCELONETA.
Both teachers and students think that this activity should have been done on the first or second day.
Both teachers and students think that this activity should have been done on the first or second day.
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Workshop on Mindfulness in the school and Montjuïc in Barcelona
The teacehrs of the Department of Educational Physchology organised a workshop on Mindfulness. Marta and Mercedes did a great job :) Thanks for helping!
After school, the mayor of La Llagosta received us and made the group and guided tour in La Llagosta
After school, the mayor of La Llagosta received us and made the group and guided tour in La Llagosta
Students and teachers took the train to go to Barcelona, but we went separate ways, since young people prefer to go on their own, and there're good guides among them. They sent me a "Boomerang" picture to prove they'd been up the mountain.
The teachers visited the Musuem of Catalan Art and the Miró Museum. Later on, many of them maet at the free Magic Show with colours and music of the Magic Fountain in PLaça d'Espanya.
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Workshop on teachers and students' anxiety run by Mireia Cabero
Mireia Cabero run this morning workshop to both teachers and students. She is a psychotherapist, coach, and expert in emotional well-being training sessions, with formation in the University of Barcelona and Pennsylvania.
She had a very positive feedback from teachers. Students think it should have been shorter.
Some groups (of teachers and students) had to make human sculptures to give solutions to anxiety
Another group made a collage to find things that helped them get rid of anxiety.
Some groups (of teachers and students) had to make human sculptures to give solutions to anxiety
Another group made a collage to find things that helped them get rid of anxiety.
After school, all of us took the train and got off at Passeig de Gràcia to see the main modernist's buildings.
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Welcome Dance
2 ESO LEVEL STUDENTS PLAYED THE DRUMS and MAX PEDROLA made an amazing jump.
3 ESO LEVEL STUDENTS PREPARED A DANCE ON THEIR OWN
TO FINISH, ERASMUS SPANISH STUDENTS TAUGHT THEIR PARTNERS SOME FUN SONGS
3 ESO LEVEL STUDENTS PREPARED A DANCE ON THEIR OWN
TO FINISH, ERASMUS SPANISH STUDENTS TAUGHT THEIR PARTNERS SOME FUN SONGS
Welcome Day
All the groups arrive at school at 8 am. After visiting the school, the headmistress greeted them, and we went on to the school yard to do an activity to get to know each other. It was "Find someone who"
Later on, we proceed with the presentantions on anxiety, and after the break, we had the drums and the dances. In the evening, we went to Barcelona for a guided tour of La Sagrada Familia. Mariela and Nati were the two Catalan teachers who accompanied the ghroup to the famous cathedral.
Later on, we proceed with the presentantions on anxiety, and after the break, we had the drums and the dances. In the evening, we went to Barcelona for a guided tour of La Sagrada Familia. Mariela and Nati were the two Catalan teachers who accompanied the ghroup to the famous cathedral.
Monday, 1 May 2017
Park Güell and Turó de la Rovira - beautiful sights
All of us met at the train station of La Llagosta to go to Park Güell. Our plan was to have our packed lunch there. Unfortunately, the Llagotel's cook overslept, and the packed lunches weren't ready. However, they brought the teachers' food to the Park Güell. Nice of them!
After the park, we took a bus and went to a hill to eat there and see the sights.
The teachers went to the modernist Catalan Palace of Music to see the building and show too, which they loved.
The teachers went to the modernist Catalan Palace of Music to see the building and show too, which they loved.
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Arrivals day
Carlos welcomed the Cypriots.
I picked up the Italians. I practised a bit of Italian with them. I started learning their language in September!
The Lithuanians were the last to land in Barcelona. Carmen picked them up.
I picked up the Italians. I practised a bit of Italian with them. I started learning their language in September!
The Lithuanians were the last to land in Barcelona. Carmen picked them up.
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