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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

EVERYDAY CREATIVITY – boosting the internal creative resources of European schools with Finnish models for education for creativity

School/Coordinator: Fundatia Centrul Educational Spektrum

Topic(s) addressed

  • Focus on students’ autonomy, empowering them, improving their critical thinking 

  • Learning by doing, exploratory learning, multidisciplinary approaches, experimental learning

  • Rethinking the use of space 

  • Supporting children with learning difficulties

Target groups

  • 20 school teachers 

  • over 500 learners 

  • 447 teachers and educational stakeholders

Methodologies

  • Being “everyday creative” as a new objective set for teachers and students

  • Digital self-reflection, reading and getting inspired by positive examples, co-creating learning results and peer feedback as tools to improve schools, communities and teaching practices

  • Changing classroom settings, redefining the school’s role

  • Varied teaching methods to inspire creativity and new ways of cooperation inside and outside schools

  • Creating the Teachers’ Handbook 

The main development areas: 

  • Learning space and multi-sensory teaching 

  • Applicable skills through teaching

  • Interaction and technology in the school 

  • Linking different subjects in learning and teaching 

Environments

Developing learner-centred indoor and outdoor environments as a training module for teachers.

Re-designing the classrooms after the on-site training in Finland: 

  • creating more educational spaces in schools

  • revisiting the use of some school spaces

  • redesigning to make the learning environment more welcoming and user-friendly 

  • designing a “family school holiday” and learning laboratories

Teachers

  • Teachers as the main focus of the project–  the results co-created by practising teachers from all participating countries: 

  • They were involved in designing all learning tools (self-assessment tool, training course, follow-up projects, multiplication workshops). 

  • They were frequently asked to (self-)reflect, elaborate on current practice and future professional aspirations and find and share best practices. 

  • Their commitment was celebrated at “creativity fairs”. 

  • Teachers have gone through a complex professional development process as shown in the Teachers’ Handbook.

Impact

The local development projects presented in the follow-up reports (see the Teachers’ Handbook).  

The 20 impact activities/projects, reported from 4 countries and over 30 classes, can be put into one of these categories: 

  • Pedagogical thinking (student autonomy, role of student) 

  • Pedagogical change (student-centred pedagogy) 

  • Learning space and environments, educational spaces;

  • Pedagogical tools (apps, materials)

  • Pedagogical approach (collaboration, co-teaching, cooperation, interdisciplinarity, learning by doing) 

EVERYDAY CREATIVITY - Romania
Project category
Secondary education
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

Fundatia Centrul Educational Spektrum

Address
Romania

Scoala Gimnaziala Jozsef Attila

Address
Romania

JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO

Address
Finland

STICHTING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FRIESLAND

Address
Netherlands

M-Around Tanacsado es Szolgaltato Korlatolt Felelossegu Társaság

Address
Hungary

BORGORETE SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE

Address
Italy

Inthecity Project Development B.V.

Address
Netherlands