What will you do when the project is finished?

When your project is finished, how will you evaluate?

Often evaluation is not carried out. Many times evaluation is skipped, due to lack of time, or because people are already busy doing other projects.

Plan the way you want to evaluate in advance.

Make sure that the pupils know beforehand that the project will be evaluated and in what way; then it is clear for everyone.

Main ideas – key words:

project - evaluation - pupils - parents / caretakers – presentation evening

Conclusion – summary

Enjoy your exchanges, before, during but certainly also after this trip. Enjoy it together!

Sources 

The Internet site of comprehensive school Canisius, Almelo offers a wide range of examples of exchanges. 

[http://www.canisius.nl>onderwijs>internationalisering 

Do's and Dont's

• Do take initiative
• Do contact foreign schools
• Do search on e-twinning.com
• Do cooperate with your colleagues and students
• Don't underestimate the time involved
• Don't limit your possibilities
• Don't underestimate the joy you share in Internationalisation
• Don't lose any time, hurry up in finding a partner for international projects

Digital project

• Did you work with your students on a project, by e-mail or WIKI? Then you have to do something with the results.
• You could make a presentation on the website of your school. 
• Students could present their project by computer/beamer/smartboard to peer-students. 
• You could also organise a parents evening and let the students present the project. 
• How about an article in the schoolpaper? 
• Colour posters have great attraction and could be shown around school.
  
• What about a booklet as a nice reminder? 
• If you have finished your project together...do something with it! Celebrate it together. 

During the exchange you can send text and pictures to the school’s webmaster; he will put all the information on the school’s website. Parents/guardians and other pupils/people interested can keep up with the trip.

After the exchange you could do the following:

• You can exchange experiences with everyone involved. 
• You can put a questionnaire in an electronical learning environment and let the students fill it in.
• You can organise a parents meeting where parents can look at the pupils’ presentations. The presentations will of course be about the project. You can also talk about how the parents have experienced the exchange. Share the experience together; all parties will greatly appreciate this. 
• It is important to celebrate a successful exchange together; effectuate the success of experiences.

If a project is done, how will you evaluate it?

Very often evaluating a project is left out due to lack of time, or one forgets it completely, or people are already busy doing other things.

Evaluation is important because you want to discuss the experiences. Students can talk about points they are not happy about and can share their successexperiences with each other and teachers.

During the evaluation you can also make the project visual to make other teachers and pupils enthusiastic for international projects.

Make plans in advance about how you will evaluate your project with your pupils. Plan you evaluation.

Enjoy your exchanges, before, during but certainly also after this trip. Enjoy it together!