Wellbeing, Internationality and Co-Teaching in Our School

Topic(s) addressed

• Learning together: co-teaching and cooperation between teachers from different grades.

• Creativity: teachers gained new ideas on how to use art therapy, outdoor learning and mindfulness.

Target groups

• Teachers

• Pupils

Methodologies

Teachers learned and applied:

• new techniques on how to use art therapy for the benefit of pupils with special needs. 

• mindfulness techniques that can be used with pupils 

• strengthened their language skills and enhanced their cultural competences

• learned about outdoor learning

• created a common blog to share experiences, materials and info

• facilitated peer-learning activities

Environments

• Cooperation between different grades and teachers at school.

• The teachers extensively used outdoor learning, art therapy, cultural approaches and mindfulness. 

• Discussions in class and meetings as a way to share experience and observations with students and teachers.

• After completion of the project, teachers continued using various outdoor learning spaces in a more creative way.

• A common blog as an innovative knowledge-sharing platform.

Teachers

• Teachers created a common blog to get more publicity and to share experiences, knowledge and information about this project.

• The project fostered cooperation and peer learning between teachers involved as it was carried out together with the KA1 team. 

Impact

Thanks to the project:

• new skills and ideas were gained and implemented in the school's teaching programme, sharing knowledge and experiences and cooperation between grades and teachers was facilitated.

• art therapy, mindfulness and outdoor learning became a more common part of a school day in all grades

• new ways of teaching cultural approaches were developed and new language skills were gained 

• teachers involved in the project delivered lessons about the topics of their course to pupils of all grades.

• teachers involved in the project gave presentations to the other teachers to share knowledge, skills and ideas about their courses and KA1.

• all materials, travel info and experiences were shared with the other schools and local communities via blog, Facebook and YouTube