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Sustainability

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on September 25, 2008 at 6:10:21 pm
 

 

Sustainability 

 

 

Introduction

 

Your project is finished and now? It would be a pity if your project will be forgotten or in the worst case be unknown to others. Therefore, it is very important to consolidate your work, which can be done in various ways. In this project we will going to sum up the different ways of how you can consolidate and imbed your project. So, in what ways can we embed our project in the school?

 

Consolidation

 

As told before it would be a shame if your project would be forgotten. To be sure that your project will not be forgotten you can use some of the guidelines listed below.

 

1.)     Provision of sufficient information

a.       Before starting

b.       During the project

c.       After the project

Before starting your project I would recommend you to inform your colleagues

a.       what your project is about,

b.       when it will start and

c.       who will participate

This information can be provided to your colleagues by e-mail or the school paper. Of course there are more ways to inform your school about your work.

 

2.)     Extended evaluation

In the end it is very important that you evaluate your project properly and be sure of the fact that other colleagues have access to this report. It is relevant that your recommendations are clear to everyone. Furthermore make notes of flaws in the organisation and find solutions to improve them.

 

3.)     Transparant communication 

a.       Towards the school board:

To complete the embedding of your work, you have to be sure that the school leaders are being well-informed. Without the support of the board you might find many problems, for example financially.

b.       Towards the other personel:

It has already been said that information towards other colleagues is highly relevant.

 

4.)     Maintaining interest

Main problems

a.       How do we keep our colleagues interested in medium and long-term projects, especially when colleagues often change schools from year-to-year?

b.       How can we encourage staff to take an interest in and or take part in projects? eg.) It takes a huge amount of time to plan, organise, research, prepare the content of the projects. Teachers have to do this in their own time.

 

Possible solutions

 

  1. In order to persuade colleagues, intend to explain them that working on any project would be of significant importance for the students no matter the subject. The projects are not made at random. They have different purposes in the process of education. It has been evidenced in the schools of our partners in Europe.
  2. Provide finance for teachers.
  3. Reduce classroom hours (depending on the type of the project).
  4. Propose different ways of participating in projects. Full participation is not necessary.
  5. Provide more trainning. Offer the possibility to have teacher exchanges between different countries, so that we can benefit from other experiences.

 

Summary

 

To make sure your project will be continued in future, it is advisable to take the following points into account:

1.)     Provide the school with sufficient information.

2.)     Evaluate the project extensively and if necessary make alterations.

3.)     Be sure of an open communication.

4.)     Keep colleageaus and schoolleaders interested in the project.

 

Sources

 

 www.canisius.nl>leerlingen > internationalisering

 

Do's and Don'ts

 

Many of the following points are the same as or comparable to the module before, but nevertheless it is important to mention these, because they belong to sustainability as well.

 

Do’s

 

ICT

·         Take into account the fact that you use computers so you need to know how to work with them.

·         Make sure that the computers work and are available. 

·         Make sure that you have technical back-up.

·         In advance think of which ICT-tool you want to use during the project (e.g. website, wiki, video conference etc.) and what the extra value is for pupils and teachers.

The basis

·         Make sure you have the backup of the schoolboard and the principal.

·         Tell about the project at you school, advertise.

·         Set individual and joint aims.

·         Make sure teachers are involved/ Get teachers involved.

·         Put a programmebooklet in the staffroom / advertise on the school website

·         Find out if there is a need for an international project within the different departments of the school.

·         Ask the ICT-group for ideas.

Scenario

·         Start planning on time.

·         When will it take place?

·         Make a programme booklet.

·         Apply for Financial aid on time.

·         Regular meetings at own school.

·         Regularly contact partnerschools.

·         Information in advance for parents, pupils and colleagues.

·         Make a website for information during the exchange.

·         Evaluate the project.

·         Find participating teachers.

Selfcontemplation 

·         What are (your own) strenghts and weaknesses and improve these.

Organisation 

·         Make clear appointments on communication, tasks, responsibilities.

·         Mention targetgroups of the project, educational level, communication language.

·         Facilitate participating teachers of the project

·         Listen and look at what your colleagues do.

Project content

·         Show the content and programme at school..

Cultural differences

·         Respect the school culture (give each other enough space, time and possibilities)

·         Take into account the cultural differences and educational systems. 

Financially

·         Apply for the Financial aid for the exchange a year in advance at the European Platform; under the name BIOS

·         Be open to the school how much the project costed.

 

Dont's:

 

·         Don’t just think that all the information you wrote will be read.

·         Make sure that you get things done

·         Don’t let the same teachers go on each exchange.

·         If you don’t have ict experience, do not start working on a big ict-project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

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