Nowadays our educative systems are changing. The way our students learn has nothing to do with the way in which we learnt years ago, they live in a society that makes them develop certain skills that we, as teachers, must have into account to make their learning meaningful and relevant for them. “STEAM: Surfing The European Artistic Monuments” involves six different European countries with a common aim: improve their teaching-learning process with the use of modern methodological approaches.
Our project will help us to exchange good practices to enrich our children’s curriculum by developing their scientist, technological, engineering, artistic and mathematical skills.
With this project we want our students to be engaged in experimental learning by using more active teaching methodologies and techniques such as project based learning (PBL), CLIL, STEAM, use of ICT. These methodologies have been taking root over the past several years and are surging now forward as a possible model of action to truly meet the needs of a 21st century society By using different methodologies and techniques we will create a more eclectic methodology to satisfy our students’ needs, motivation and interests.
Our students will take a very active role in the project. They will take active part in different mobilities organizing the cultural visits when visiting other partners. Through the activities planned for this project we would like to offer them the possibility to learn more about the local, regional, national and European history, culture and environment from living sources. We will combine the knowledge they gained from subjects like: History, Geography, Biology, Natural Sciences, Foreign Languages, Informatics/ICT, Language and Literature, Art and Music with technological tools like: web 2.0 tools, educational platforms and educational apps, in order to provide a valuable learning environment, socially active classrooms, group work and collaborative learning activities, interactive and digital lessons.
Our students will have the possibility to meet and interact personally/face-to-face with their European colleagues, to work together in international groups, to search for more information about the tangible and intangible culture and natural heritage of the partner countries on site, through learning, teaching, training activities. In this way they can benefit more from the learning process by Experiential Learning through concrete experiences, observation and reflection or active experimentation. Thereby, we can help our students to create a linkage between virtual learning and real experiences, conducive to a more attractive learning process. By this, they would have a complete understanding of the cultural heritage, of the similarities and differences among nations and would feel more attracted to the learning process.