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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Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Tasks to be done in Finland
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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Motivation in the Science and maths class
By Ismael and Laia
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