EU Project Socrates Grundtvig 1 VisuaLearning QUALIFICATION CONCEPT

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EU Project Socrates Grundtvig 1
VisuaLearningQUALIFICATION CONCEPT 
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Project Socrates Grundtvig 1 VisuaLearning

• 3 qualification workshops carried out in Poland
• 1st workshops 24.05.2007, 7 participants Total
  
• 2nd workshops 20.06.2007, 4 participants 18
• 3rd (additional) workshops 21.06.2007,
• 7 participants
• Target Group teachers, tutors, lecturers and
  instructors
• of foreign languages

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Project Socrates Grundtvig 1 VisuaLearning

• What did you change in comparison to the
  qualification workshops in Bonn? Why?
• shorter theoretical part - more practical aspects
  instead of a very long theoretical part.
• focusing on exercises, practical aspects of
  visual methods concerning needs of our target
  group.
• more material which could be used by teachers
  with their students (examples to all of presented
  visual methods to be used in the classroom
  worked out and handed out in a paper form to all
  participants)

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• Changes after the first workshop? New content?
• New methods? Why?
• All of the three qualification workshops were
  carried out in the
• same way with no changes after the first one.
• The only one difference was the duration which we
  were forced to
• adopt dependently on the organizational
  conditions and
• agreements between ITeE and the hosting
  institutions.

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• Choice of methods which ones? why? Which were
  very successful?
• The most popular and effective methods (according
  to the
• national report)
• Mind mapping
• Clustering
• Mnemotechniques (practical examples of different
  techniques)
• Visualization

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Project Socrates Grundtvig 1 VisuaLearning

• Workshops were organized in 2 sessions including
  some main subjects
• 1. Theoretical part
• introduction into Socrates Grundtvig
  VisuaLearning project
• role and importance of visual thinking (last
  findings concerning the subject, scientifically
  proved knowledge, specialist terminology)
• 2. Practical part
• - visual methods (examples of selected methods
  and practical exercises how to use these methods
  in the classroom in general and particularly when
  teaching of foreign languages) mind mapping,
  clustering, mnemotechniques, visualization
• - power of images
• - learning styles (test for participants)
• - support of new media (slightly)
• - final discussion at the end of workshops -
  feedback, opinions, reflections, useful links and
  literature.
• During the sessions there were three short
  relaxing exercises with a relaxing music (2-3
  min.) based on the educational material approved
  by The National Ministry of Health.

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• How did the participants evaluate the methods?
  What did they
• say or what do you mean concerning the
  possibility of transfer
• in the classroom?
• Workshops were assessed positively according to
  evaluation
• questionnaires. Participants found all methods as
  a very
• interesting and useful activity worthy to
  disseminate and continue.
• Teachers declared to transfer selected methods to
  the classroom.

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• Results What kind of support do the trainers
  need? What are
• the core findings and recommendations regarding
  the common
• concept?
• Teachers wish to have a kind of compendium on
  visual methods and
• their practical use.
• Our guidebook very welcome!

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• What can we do to get further materials from the
  trainers for the project (for the
  gallery/website/guide) good practice examples,
  reports, pictures?
• Some suggestions and proposals
• to use the most interesting photoes from the
  national workshops from each partner country
• To use the examples of good practices placed in
  the national reports or gathered in partner
  countries
• To select some images from the free source given
  by Dirk in the last Newsletter
• To ask the national network for the contribution
  to our guide

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• Recommendations for the final concept
• Some elements which were used during the
  workshops in POLAND
• the relaxation music between sessions
• presentation with examples of selected methods
  e.g. mnemotechniques, mind mapping, clustering,
  visualization (not only the theory but first of
  all practical presentation)
• learning styles test
• Remark practical exercises are a good method to
  mobilize and establish a contact with
  participants (e.g. we used the exercise with
  selecting pictures carried out during the
  workshops in Bonn).

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Project Socrates Grundtvig 1 VisuaLearning

• Thank you for attention
• Malgorzata Kacprzak
• Institute for Sustainable Technologies National
  Research Institute
• ITeE PIB, Radom
• malgorzata.kacprzak_at_itee.radom.pl
• www.itee.radom.pl