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We strongly believe, that whatever you want to do in life, what career path you choose, knowing foreign languages will greatly contribute to your success: your career prospects, more opportunities for employment and leisure activities. However, our students have limited opportunities to make use of it beyond school and their progress can be seen only at school reports. We share The Council of Europe’s aims to build a greater Europe based on shared values, including tolerance and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity. It promotes the use of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) as a practical means of helping people of all ages and backgrounds to learn more languages and engage with other cultures.The aim of this project is to improve student’s motivation for learning foreign languages, especially English, through encouraging their inner curiosity for novelty and obtaining new information about partners’ countries from their own point of view. The project will be ideal for fostering key competences in a lot of areas because of the wide range of subjects in the work plan, e.g. Maths and Sciences, Humanities, ICT, Languages, Music and Arts. In order to reach our goals teachers will cooperate to create and share innovative ways of teaching and try the new methods they will find out. First, working on the project our staffs will improve the quality of teaching by gathering fresh teaching ideas and approaches. It will be possible to motivate students who are harder and harder to engage in traditional school activities and consequently their academic results will be better. They will work on using innovative student-centered pedagogical approaches, new kinds of tasks for students to solve which can make teaching and learning more effective. As students will work in international groups, this new learning environment can help them develop a more positive attitude towards learning English language. It is a key point in this project which will be a motivating experience both for students and the staff. We can observe that it is essential for the teachers of our age to know and use English no matter what subjects they teach. Our hope is that a greater understanding and enjoyment of English can enrich people’s lives and enable them to make more of the exceptional cultural and communications phenomenon which English has become. In our project, we will try to present ideas about English in intelligent, entertaining, inclusive and interactive way. We will prepare and use a variety of media-online platform, exhibitions, books, web sites, blogs, videos, discussion, contests, theatre plays, street games and even computer games to bring the teaching English to life. Each of us carries our own version of the English Language, so it means that each of us gives it a personal flavour, adding vocabulary and modifying the usage. We will provide students with authentic English practice, so they will be able to check the relevance of the real world of what they are learning. We will also provide both the students and teachers with a huge variety of materials and views, especially ideas to get out of the classroom and get into the environment. We will integrate the four main skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, relevant to teaching English in a natural way, as it happens in the real life. All student and teacher will have a chance to create their own European Linguistic Portfolio and design their career path. The participating schools will carry out their “The best of… “which will be unique and designed to address all our aims. Moreover, the cross-curricular approaches we will conceive and put into practice will gather the knowledge of teachers from different countries, so we expect to be able to find new, innovative solutions, which couldn’t be found unless conceived within trans-nationally. What is more, we will promote the learners’ autonomy and cooperation by offering them European Club extra classes. Finally, we will make use of the bridges between language and culture, both the real and methaphorical ones. In this context, we will build new bridges, renovate those existing and design many new ones to be built during our project. This project is a chance for us to create a common sense of what European construction should be, in its inhabitants’ everyday life. Properly teaching tradition, language, health, arts, crafts, gastronomy is the solution for our pupils to feel more like European citizens, who can freely cross the borders.This project is absolutely necessary:
-for the different schools to have partnership, to compare and enrich our teaching
-for the pupils to practice one of the many European languages
-for the teachers to participate and benefit from international cooperation
-for European Union to be understood on a local scale, in different countries.
In the course of the project through cooperation both students and teachers will learn how to teach, learn and live in multicultural Europe.