TTI pilot workshop: 17h May 2016, Brussels

Session 3: TTI Pilot Models Alexandra Tosi (IT NSS)

N. of students trained and hours of training in Italy

6 TTI Primary & Pre-Primary:1298 students - 280 hours

2 Upper and lower Secondary230 students - 7 hours

1 Other (CLIL in service training)143 teachers – 10 hours

TOT• 1.662 students trained• 297 hours at university• 85 students involved in pilot projects

Italy Pilot 2015-16

How?Only bottom up approach: when ambassador was also a Tutor at university or volunteered to liase with ProfessorsWe asked for a manifestation of interest by a Professor and replied with a standard letter with rules and access to further information. Flexible approach.Sustainable approach: Students’ training must be mainly Universities’ responsibility, with few agreed exceptions. We can provide training to hosting schools and trainers, if agreed ahead with the Regional School AuthoritySome online training was provided by NSS for all (2 webinars)Coordination, support and monitoring by NSS

At national level:Different entries for eTwinning in the curriculum:

Part of the indirect traineeship and/or regular classes (64°Y, 35°Y, 22°and 3°Y - PA/CA,11° Y - PA)

Laboratories/subjects: General Didactic (MI-CA), English Language (MI-FG-VR), Children’s Literature (PA-CA), Experimental Pedagogy (FI), Media and ICT (GE)Generally compulsory + on demand counsellingFormal recognition: hours, credits, points in the vote of the exam or final thesis…Use of training platform or direct registration in case of smaller numbers, or both (total n. of registered students: 58)

Very positive feedback from studentsCurricular integrationUniversities seem interested in improving and widen the experience in the next yearsSome thesis by students, articles and posters by professorsGreat workload on Ambassadors, some for free

At national level:Feedback and comment

At European level – 6 student/student projects

Level Title Partners

P-PPlet's learn and disseminate an amazing eTwinning IT (MI-FI-GE) + ES (RJC Madrid) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/20528/

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- LEARNING WITH SPREADSHEET APPLICATION- Flipped learning model - Culture of our country

IT (PA) + SL (Presov) + Croazia (Osijek) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/20707/

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P-PPChildren’s Literature in Action (eTwinTTPilot15/16) IT (CA) + POL (Elblag) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/18489/

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P-PP The reflective future teacher- eTwinnerIT (FI-GE) + DK (Copenhagen) + ES (Castilla La Mancha) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/18409/

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P-PP Young Teachers for Young Learners (YT for YL)IT (MI) + PL (Warsaw) + Estonia (Tartu) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/19282/

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CLIL-Sec Speak up

IT (RM) + SL (Zilina) + ES (RJC Madrid) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/18543/

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At European levelFeedback and comments

Student-student Projects, difficulties:Finding compatible European partnersPlanning at distance (usually one took the lead and if they were lucky the other followed)Different calendar, priorities, n. of students, subjects etc.Very late start for all project activities, most are still in their initial phaseBUT universities are very interested in estabilishing these partnerships!

4 «regular» eTwinning projects linked to stud/stud proj. (Firenze)2 «regular» eTwinning projects (Genova)6 «regular» eTwinning projects (Milano Cattolica)– Flowers in a child 's hand https://twinspace.etwinning.net/15881/home

– The Adventures of Bot Crock and Page https://twinspace.etwinning.net/17788/home – The great word factory (stud. Francesca Zago) https://twinspace.etwinning.net/19525/home

– The snail and the whale https://twinspace.etwinning.net/12042/home

– Europe Day & e-Twinning Celebration https://twinspace.etwinning.net/20302/home

– Creating tomorrows‘ schools today https://twinspace.etwinning.net/5644/home

At European level – 12 projects with pupils

At European levelFeedback and comments

Projects with pupils, together with tutor:Full and very positive experience, personal satisfaction/motivationGreat load of extra work for students with very small formal credit, if anyOn voluntary basis, only a minorityDifficuties in finding eTwinning Tutors at hosting school

Future steps and possible improvements in Italy

Increase the n. of eTwinning teachers at hosting school (training) <–> send trainees to eTw Schools increase «regular» eTw. proj.

Lobby for better recognition both for ambassadors’ work and students’ participation in project work and more trainers’ training (If we scale, we cannot count only on ambassadors)Offer standard and regular eTwinning online modules for students and/or tutors/trainers (certified)

Involved universities could try to bring in their E+ partners or other

THANK YOU!Alexandra Tosi NSS Italy

a.tosi@indire.it