LTE- DISSEMINATION LTE- DISSEMINATION IES Josep VallverdúIES Josep VallverdúGemma Llovera & Francesc Solans
LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008
What’s dissemination?What’s dissemination?“the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate” .
(www.thefreedictionary.com)
For us dissemination must For us dissemination must answer these 4 questionsanswer these 4 questions
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WHAT: LTE NETWORK.WHOM:
◦Educational Department of Catalonia.HOW:
◦Personal meeting: Educational staff School headmistress Teachers involved
WHY: ◦Get to know the project.◦Inform that a Catalan school is involved
in a Comenius 3 network.
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WHAT: STRESS REDUCED LEARNINGWHOM:
◦English Department of Education in Catalonia.
◦Schools and teachers of languageHOW:
◦Being invited to explain SRL to the responsible of Foreign Languages Department, partner of a project called “Neues lernen” . (Neues Lernen Lingua 2 project, 72097-CP-2-2001)
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WHAT: STRESS REDUCED LEARNINGWHY:
◦To improve learning and teaching◦To reduce stress to teachers and
students◦To test a new methodology which aims
to: Enable students to become self-confident,
autonomous
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How to get teachers involved in SRL◦Summary of SRL methodology upload to
the net and mailing invitation to join the group in order to: Get more information Share ideas, doubts Put into practice
◦Mailing list of language teachers involved in projects by the Department.
◦Personal contact with colleagues and friends
LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008c
How to get teachers involved in SRL◦Summary of SRL methodology upload to
the net and mailing invitation to join the group in order to: Get more information Share ideas, doubts Put into practice
◦Mailing list of language teachers involved in projects by the Department.
◦Personal contact with colleagues and friends
LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008c
How to keep teachers involved with the survey◦ Sending e-mails with updated tests◦ Creating material to carry out some specific
tests Quiz PWP with images Glossaries Translation vocabulary lists Explanatory texts Clarifying the content
◦ Summarising the main ideas on each test◦ Suggesting ways for a better practice
LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008c
WHAT: MULTIMEDIAWHOM:
◦ Language Teachers and schoolsHOW:
◦ Seminars.
HOW COULD IT BE DISSEMINATED?◦ Choosing activities to exemplify the way of working◦ Using the mailing lists to spread this methodology◦ Inviting teachers to:
get in depth practice with the activities generate more activities get feedback
LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008c
WHAT: INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD METHODOLOGY
WHOM: ◦Educational Department of Catalonia.◦Local Inspector.◦Local community.
HOW: ◦Barcelona
Personal meeting with the local inspector and the department. (They provided us with 2 IWB)
◦Design a pattern unit using IWB Languages (English, Catalan, Spanish, French) Biology, history, Industrial technology.
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◦Our local educational department invited us to disseminate this methodology: Doing some lectures
On provincial level On local level.
Training courses: 2007/08:
IES Josep Vallverdú (20 teachers/60) 2008/09:
IES Josep Vallverdú (19 teachers/60) IES La serra (17 teachers/50)
Preparing materials ready to use.
LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008c
◦Workshops: Local:
IES Lladonosa (30 teachers/45)
Palermo Estenfeld (GER)
◦ Including this methodology in LTE-subprojects Summary of LESET
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WHY: ◦To get to know the project.◦To promote the potentiality of IWBs in
educational field.◦To become a pionner school on this
technology.◦To help improve learning and teaching
process by: Giving extra multimedia tools to learn Ensuring a better motivation, Helping critical thinking and creativity Emphasizing interactivity (teacher/student and
student/student)