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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

Our children, our world, our future

School: Przedszkole Nr 60 im. Jana Brzechwy w Gdańsku

Our children, our world, our future - Poland

Topic(s) addressed

  • Education for sustainable development
  • Outdoor education
  • Informal education
  • Learning from each other
  • Promoting creativity
  • Using activating and problem-solving methods
  • Development of key competencies for children and teachers

Target groups

  • 12 Teachers 
  • 100 children 
  • 15 with special education needs 
  • 200 parents

Methodologies

  • Teachers individualized the educational process.
  • They used the Dalton plan that introduces children to self-sufficiency, responsibility, cooperation and reflection.
  • Informal education– activities outside of the classroom and projects 
  • Natural science education as the basis for building integrated knowledge about the world, 
  • Combining different branches of education: linguistic, social, mathematical, technical, artistic, musical and physical. 
  • Carrying out an international project Amazing children, Amazing nature on eTwinning.

Environments

  • Expanding the educational space of the kindergarten outside of the kindergarten room– creative play corners 
  • Organising activities outside of the kindergarten (outdoors) 
  • The natural environment becomes a teaching aid. 
  • Undertaking activities involving children with special educational needs
  • Teachers share their knowledge and experience to learn from each other.

Teachers

  • Teachers developed their skills and competencies (the ability to make contact, teamwork, negotiation skills, conflict management, assertive behaviour, empathy, patience, understanding, work planning, anticipation and dealing with stress).
  • They cooperated by sharing good practices, exchanging experiences and teaching materials, joint organization and carrying out various activities. 
  • Together they planned, organised, implemented and modified educational processes. 
  • They worked with each other using the Scrum method.

Impact

The project affected:

  • Sending organization– modification of the concept of work, enrichment of the kindergarten base
  • Children– learning through action, research and discovery (in teams and groups), making hypotheses and testing, the possibility of making mistakes and drawing conclusions from them. 
  • Teachers– teamwork, using activating and problem-based methods and informal methods, creating conditions for independent actions and decision making. 
  • Parents– increasing awareness of key competencies 
  • Local community– through a series of events, consultations for teachers of other institutions related to writing Erasmus + projects, sharing good practices with the directors of Gdańsk-based educational institutions, implementation of eTwinning projects.
Project category
Early childhood education and care
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

Executive Training Institute

Address
Malta

JUMP Association International Teachers Training Academy

Address
Italy