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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

Work for an Inclusive School Heritage

School/Coordinator: Sukromná stredna odborna skola Pro scholaris

Work for an Inclusive School Heritage - Slovakia

Topic(s) addressed

  • Social Inclusion of the disadvantaged students

  • 21st-century skills (e.g. creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, leadership, responsibility)

  • Problem-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning

Target groups

  • Students and teachers of the partner and pilot schools

  • Future teachers at the universities

Methodologies

  • Joint Staff Training and Short-Term Student Exchanges

  • Social Inclusion Projects operated by students in Prosocial Behavioural Clubs 

  • Visits to pilot schools and institutions working with refugees or disabled students 

  • Visits to NGOs, local and regional partnerships, presentations of project results

  • Using digital ICT tools in order to share project results

Environments

  • Introducing innovation in the teaching process by the use of 21st-century skills in project-based learning. 

  • Activities resulting from the PBL approach as part of updated university syllabuses and pilot school curricula

  • Learning environments of Vocational Education and Training fostered cooperation, critical thinking and collaboration as well as the development of ICT skills.

Teachers

Teachers’ key role in educational innovative approaches:

  • developing 21st-century skills,

  • applying project-based learning into the educational processes,

  • raising awareness about social inclusion.

Teachers shared their experiences with their colleagues in internal school training.

They also supervised the Social Inclusion projects.

Impact

  • Improvement of the different and innovative online, student-centred pedagogical methodologies e.g. Problem-Based Learning. 

  • The teachers learned how to address social inclusion. 

  • Producing outputs, also students-made, e.g. bulletin, short movie, banners, etc. 

  • Linking with local or regional authorities contributed to increased awareness about inclusion.

 

Project category
VET schools
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

Súkromná stredná odborná škola Pro scholaris

Address
Slovakia

Institut Guillem Catà, Manresa

Address
Spain

West University of Timisoara

Address
Romania

Gaziantep University

Address
Türkiye