ENHANCING STUDENT AND TEACHER SUCCESS THROUGH STEM EDUCATION

THE MEANING OF OUR PROJECT:

Teachers from  Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, Austria, Finland and Slovakia have unified around the  aim of the present project  to identify successful strategies and techniques in the teaching process of science .In this project we will investigate opportunities to integrate and develop new learning approaches, methodologies, integrated classroom strategies in STEM education.

Early science for children is all about building their natural curiosity about the world and encouraging exploration. Discovering cause and effect, making guesses, observing, estimating and measuring are part of this exciting journey, so we have promoted STEM at our schools by constantly doing something new and reliable with our students in science classes. We understand how important the early years are to both parents and their children. This is a time of remarkable growth, when children are experiencing rapid development, learning new skills and progressing steadily towards physical, intellectual, and social-emotional milestones.

With our project we have taught our students about the importance of science-citizen interaction. Throughout this project we were particularly encouraged by our students' enthusiasm for research, science and experiments but also history and geography. We  encouraged the exploration and interpretation of natural phenomena, and inspired them to continue their studies in science disciplines. We made online meetings and practical activities - experiments, studies. During the LTTA the students and teachers   developed  their  technological skills through  workshops of programming and robotics, as well as the development of science in the classroom by studying innovative approaches and good practices. We presented  online and at the Erasmus+ project  LTTA

27 workshops. Some of them were included in our online booklet   "A few ideas for science education in primary level".

Together with the students we created stories in English language as fairy tales for different science areas. We made experiments and collected all stories  in an e-book translated in 6 languages, as well as their dramatization published on our You Tube project channel.

The eTwinning projects  with the same name were  part of our Erasmus+ project one per each year of the Erasmus+ project time.

The participants in the Erasmus+ project Enhancing Student and Teacher Success through STEM Education:

SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak , Bulgaria                                       Spojena skola Tilgnerova, Bratislava, Slovakia

- coordinator

Volksschule Oberwart, Austria                                 Oulu University Teacher Training School  , OULU, Finland

Colegiul National Gheorghe Lazar Sibiu,                             EB1/PE da Lombada Ponta do Sol, Madeira, Portugal

 Sibiu, Romania                                                                                        

Special thanks to the teachers from every partner school for their enthusiasm and successful teamwork and for the achieved magnificent project results.

  1. SU “Ekzarh Antim I”, Kazanlak, Bulgaria - Natasha Dzhurkova- project coordinator, Boyana Filipova, Mara Hadjieva, Nanka Kostadinova, Marina Ivanova;

  2. Austria, Primary School Oberwart, Oberwart - Marlene Ruiter - Gangol, Kerstin

      Kloiber, Sonja Krutzler, Eva – Maria Pieler, Eveline Guger, Bea Hechenblaicken,

      Elfriede Fabian, Christina Steszgal;

  3. Portugal, EB1/PE da Lombada - Ponta do Sol, Madeira - Rosa Luísa Gaspar, Sofia

      Freitas, Teresa Marcos, Carla Santos, Augusto Martins, Célia Miguel, Other invited

      teachers Fernando Gaspar, Rodolfo Pinto, Luis Gaspar;

  4. Slovakia, Spojená škola Tilgnerova, Bratislava - Sona Bencova, Katarina Klemanova,

      Dana Lapsanska, Adriana Hlavinkova, Ivona Kadnarova, Jana Bojkovska;

  5. Romania, Colegiul National Gheorghe Lazar Sibiu, Sibiu - Raluca Filip, Gabriela

      Sandulescu, Steliana Marginean, Delia Serb, Ramona Szasz, Daniela Bunea;

  6. Finland, Oulu University Teacher Training School, Oulu - Raija Kärkkäinen, Vuokko

      Kangas, Erkki Pekkala, Marianna Junes, Marja Koskivirta, Kerttuli Saajoranta, Anne

      Korkeakoski, Hennariikka Kangas, Eero Hietapelto, Pentti Mankinen, Outi Tiainen,    

      Janne Pellikainen, Riku Välitalo, Johanna Jarva, Mari Sääskilahti, Kirsti Karhumaa,

      Auli Halme, Mika Ruikka, Erja Pohjolainen, Anu Riippa, Jani Polvinen, Raimo Salo,

      Elina Laine-Leiviskä, Hanna Meriläinen, Sini Liimatta.

Our team in Madeira- May 2018

TO SHARE OUR ERASMUS+ EXPERIENCE WITH MORE SCHOOLS IN EUROPE WE INVITED IN OUR ETWINNING PROJECT WITH THE SAME NAME  14 MORE SCHOOLS FROM DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. THEY  ARE :

School of Zervochoria Greece
Primary School of Kalo Chorio Limassol
Atzalynas basic school in Telsiai, Lithuania
Tode Hadzi-Tefov Primary school

San Gwann Primary - Malta 

Baku European Lyceum, Azerbaijan

Spetalen, Saltnes Norway

Primary school VELIKA DOLINA,Jesenice Na Dolenjskem Slovenia

Aksaz Turgutreis İlkokulu, Muğla Turkey

Vastseliina Gümnaasium, Vastseliina Estonia

OOU "Tode Hadzi-Tefov"-Kavadarci, Kavadarci Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Agrupamento de Escolas de Aljustrel, Aljustrel Portugal
Iskitler Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Ankara, TURKEY