Local activities at Tartu Tamme Gümnaasium
2019
September. Introducing the project within our school; publishing an article on the school’s homepage; attending the opening seminar offered by the Estonian NA
October. Building an Erasmus+ display wall in school; attending a film literacy training; familiarizing ourselves with relevant literature on CLIL and blanded learning
November. Preparing for the first short term teacher training event in Tartu: designing the programme, selecting the external texts, preparing teacher-compiled texts; engaging colleagues; selecting students
December. Hosting the first teacher training event; disseminating the event by creating an attractive Erasmus+ display stand on all partner schools at Tartu Tamme Gümnaasium.
2020
January. Preparing for Episode II by running an elective project course titled “Human Dignity & Freedom; studying film literacy, learning English, watching the film (Wonder) and writing film reviews
February. Continuing with before Episode II activities; focusing on the topic of human dignity in the light of European refugee crisis; studying the basics of (classroom) debate; learning to create effective debate speeches; assisting C.E. Rivas Luna with preparations for the upcoming transnational event
March. Disseminating the outcomes of Episode II; implementing classroom debate activities in language instruction.
April. Writing an article to the Open magazine of the EATE; adding content to the project website; updating the Erasmus+display wall at TTG
May. Developing the project’s website; preparing for the upcoming video-conference in June (researching, analyzing, evaluating, summarizing and generating)
June. Working on the first reusable pedagogical resource of our project; creating new content; consolidating and editing
July. Creating content for the project’s website
August. Working on teacher e-portfolios
September. Participating in a webinar on Erasmus+ strategic partnerships in the context of Covid-19 pandemic; sharing information with partners; holding a Microsoft Teams meeting
October. A presentation on this project made at EATE autumn seminars “Teaching Makes a Difference” in Tallinn and Tartu made by the coordinator Triin Lingiene; the first reusable pedagogical resource “Human Dignity and Freedom” being adapted for a Moodle course
November. Starting the second Erasmus+ project course (CLIL and blended learning) for year 11 students; adding content to the project’s website
December. Generating content for the reusable pedagogical resource “The Rule of Law and Human Rights”
2021
January. Generating content for the reusable pedagogical resource “The Rule of Law and Human Rights”; running the second elective Erasmus+ project course on human rights and the rule of law
February. Supervising a student project on intrcultural communication; students presenting their reviews of Blinded by the Light; carrying out a mini project on gender equality among three groups of year 11 students at our school; preparing for a video conference with project partners
March. Supervising a student school project on intercultural communicative competence; developing the project website; starting the third Erasmus+ elective course
April. Publishing a student project “Intercultural learning activities” . Developing the reusable pedagogical resources of this project
May. Generating new content for the reusable pedagogical resources of this project; celebrating the Europe Day with a multilingual display
June. Completing the third elective project course; generating new content for the reusable pedagogical resources; participating in a web seminar organised by the Estonian NA
July. Developing the reusable pedagogical resources
August. Dissemination activities: presenting our blended learning materials to teachers of English at a summer seminar in Pärnu. The slides open here.
September. Preparing for the second teacher training event in Belgium
October. Dissemination activities after the teacher training event
November. Working on the reusable resources; applying some of the activities in general English lessons
December. Dissemination activities
2022
January. Generating new web content
February. Generating new web content
March. Preparing for Episode V
April. Dissemination; preparing for Episode IV
May. Dissemination final evaluation
