Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme Project

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Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning
ProgrammeProject
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Material development on ISUS

• German material

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What did we achieve until now?

• team building
• revision of former syllabus and material
• creation of new syllabus for level 1 to 3
• development of new units 1.01 to 3.20

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Challenges in phase 1

• to build a reliable team
• to become acquainted with the ISUS platform
• to deal with the original German syllabus and the
  material

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Challenges in phase 2

• to recruit new developers
• to create a new syllabus on level 2 and 3
• to keep the developers up to date
• to be in time with the documentation (for the
  developers and for the project)

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Team Building

• Phase 1 (November December 2011)
• the coordinator had to get experience in the
  development work as well
• an experienced trainer left the team
• coordinator and a trainer with less experience
• had to develop the 10 units
• final dead line could not be met

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Team Building

• Phase 2 (January to March 2011)
• 2 new developers from the beginning of February
• one trainer always met the dead lines
• one trainer did not meet the dead lines, but did
  very good work
• final dead line could not be met
• coordination has to be more effective

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Acquaintance with the platform

• Phase 1
• introduction through our English trainers
• trial lessons with ISUS (coordinator)
• login (coordinator)
• Phase 2
• introduction through coordinator
• trial lessons with ISUS (did not work out)
• login

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Revision of the Original Material

• grammar progression, vocabulary and speaking
  activities are not related to German as a Foreign
  language
• grammar and vocabulary do not fit together

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Revision of the Syllabus

• Phase 1 Time consuming work on the syllabus
• not possible to work over the whole syllabus
  (time frame teamwork)
• decision changes for level 1

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Creation of the Syllabus

• Phase 2 (level 2 and 3)
• decision development of our own syllabus with
  CEF as framework
• Level 1 and 2 A 1
• Level 3 and 4 A 2
• Level 5 and 6 B 1
• Level 7, 8 and 9 B 2
• Level 10 C 1

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Creation of the Syllabus

• Coordinator delivers the grammar progression and
  a list of vocabulary and speaking issues for the
  next level
• developers only stick to the grammar progression
• cooperation with our developers concerning the
  vocabulary, speaking and writing activities

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Creation and Development

• syllabus is kept up to date by the coordinator
• new version is sent out to developers before they
  are going to start with new lessons

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Revision of the Material

• Original German units
• no grammar progression
• grammar explanations not adequate for the level
• most of the activities far to difficult for the
  level
• most of the activities were not authentic and
  not interesting for the learner

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Outstanding Challenges

• to deal with the feedback from the university of
  Ulster
• changing and uploading the units of level 1
• to get an overview of all the words and
  structures covered until present

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Outstanding Challenges

• to check all the new lessons according to the
  evaluation criteria
• feedback conversation with our devolopers
• to set up the grammar progression and subjects
  for level 4
• audio files team of speakers and time schedule

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Summary and Outlook

• Team
• Schedule
• Content
• Costs
• We look forward using the German ISUS material in
  the future
• and we are eager to learn about the material of
  our partners as well!