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Learning, Teaching and Training Activities

Meeting Number
C1

Activity Type
Short-term joint staff training events

Meeting Title
Creative Learning about Regional Education

Start Date
27/09/2021

End Date
01/10/2021

Receiving Organisation
Technikum Nr15 im. Tomasza Klenczara

Receiving Country
Poland

Receiving City
Katowice
Description of the meeting

The Polish school hosted 13 teachers from 5 partner schools.

In the integration part, a meeting at the school was held: presentation of the project group, staff and educational offer T15, visiting the school, presentation of the project and activities in the field of regional education at school, as well as the effects of students' work on the project. The partners presented their schools, their educational offer and the city.

The coordinator presented the "Katowice Regional Education Program" implemented in secondary schools in Katowice for 3 years. It was created thanks to the involvement of the employees of the Department of Education and Sport and the Mayor of Katowice.

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Activities aimed at discovering the region included: thematic trips, talks with guides, meetings with experts.

We visited:
the center of Katowice, the Culture Zone with the Silesian Museum, the historic mining district of Nikiszowiec, the historic adit "Królowa Luiza" in Zabrze, the palace park with a bison farm and the market square in Pszczyna, Kapias Gardens in Goczałkowice, Szyndzielnia in the Beskids.
The Polish team also showed our guests the National Park in Ojców with visiting the Pieskowa Skała Castle.

As part of learning about the customs of Silesia, we participated in a typical Silesian dinner.

A meeting organized by the Department of Education and Sport of Katowice took place at the Katowice City Hall in Willa Goldsteinów. The head of the Department of Education presented the regional education program "Heart of the Metropolis. Katowice - my place on Earth", the most important aspects of teaching this subject in Katowice schools, the characteristics of the city of Katowice as a place of modernization and transformation.

The 5-day training was attended by: staff and students of T15, parents of students, representatives of the "Południe" Municipal Cultural Center, educational authorities in Katowice.

During the project meeting of teachers, we established the rules for the next mobility in Croatia as the exchange of students and teachers, schedule and division of tasks in the coming months, we evaluated the meeting and planned the next results of the project. The students presented the initial chapter of the eBook "Interesting places in the region of Silesia".

The training in Poland was to integrate the project group, strengthen the partnership of schools, and exchange good practices in the field of regional education.

Methodology: tours, talks with experts, presentations, survey, discussion.

Results: thematic

materials: project presentation, presentation on regional education in T15, lesson plans on regional education, exhibitions,

The classes were correlated with the following subjects: regional education, culture, Polish, English, ecology, art, geography, history.

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How did the participation in this activity benefit the involved participants?

Benefits for TEACHERS

  • establishing international cooperation of 6 schools
  • exchange of good practices
  • learning about the regional education program in Katowice
  • learning about the city of Katowice and the culture of the region, incl. Silesian dialect, Silesian cuisine, mining heritage, revitalized objects in Katowice;
  • visiting places characteristic for the region of Silesia: the Silesian Museum, Culture Zone, the center of Katowice, Adit "Królowa Luiza" in Zabrze, Market Square and Bison Farm in Pszczyna, Kapias Gardens in Goczałkowice, Szyndzielnia in the Beskids and Ojców National Park with a castle in Pieskowa Skała
  • comparison of education systems in 6 partner countries
  • preparing lesson plans for e-Book "REG"
  • working together on the results of the project
  • getting to know the technical school in Katowice: staff, equipment, educational offer
  • exchange of teaching techniques in the field of regional education
  • improving communication in English
  • establishing new contacts
HOST SCHOOL
  • establishing international cooperation of 6 schools
  • increase in managerial, personal and organizational competences
  • strengthening cooperation with local institutions and authorities in Katowice
  • promoting the idea of learning
  • creating a positive image of the school in the community
  • making education part of the European dimension

STUDENTS

  • visiting places characteristic for Silesia, - getting to know the city's modernization initiatives
  • developing competences:
    • creative: creating works, organizing an event
    • social: working together with teachers, working in a group, organizing a local event, participating in workshops, participating in a large event promoting tolerance, diversity, equality; active participation in local life
    • communicative: communication in English and native languages
    • digital: creating films, presentations - improving personal skills, such as self-presentation, group work, searching and selecting information

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