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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

Promoting wellbeing in pre-school through healthier lifestyles

School/Coordinator: Istituto Comprensivo Ettore Guatelli

Promoting wellbeing in pre-school through healthier lifestyles - Italy

Topic(s) addressed

  • the holistic and multi-sensorial idea of well-being 

  • creativity- self-expression 

  • healthy food and relationships, living together

  • the school environment- the "setting" as an essential element to feel good at school 

  • structured path of Mindfulness

Target groups

Kindergarten teachers: 

  • 5-8 from Italy 

  • 3-5 from Sweden 

  • 2-3 from Portugal 

  • 2 from Greece

Methodologies

  • Every T&L activity meeting focused on a different topic. 

  • "Live" presentations of the hosting country’s system, tools and strategies (or by recordings, in the online meetings) 

  • Discussions, exchanging materials and ideas. 

  • At every meeting, we planned the next one.

  • Using ITC– for communications 

  • Updating the website for keeping up documentation and dissemination

  • Close progress monitoring

Environments

  • The learning environments support innovative teaching and learning activities– all the partners ensured functional “settings” 

  • Enabling the children to stay all the time together

  • Facilitating outdoor activities “in natural surroundings” 

  • The use of self-made tools to foster creativity and relationships

Teachers

  • Teachers responsible for involving their colleagues and the pupils’ parents in the project

  • Exchanging methods with European partners to try out new practices

Impact

  • The activities resulted in reaching the project’s objectives.

  • The outcomes were then disseminated through meetings with teachers and parents.

  • Each partner organised an academic lecture during the initial meetings, e.g. an Italian academic teacher about dealing with creativity in childhood.

Project category
Early childhood education and care
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

IC Guatelli Collecchio

Address
Italy

2nd Experimental Kindergarten School AUTH

Address
Greece

Colégio do Sardão, Oliveira do Douro Porto

Address
Portugal

Armbandet and KäVsäVers förskola

Address
Sweden