RECORD: Bulgaria transnational meeting

1st SESSION: Monday, 19th September 2016

CLIL LESSONS

The aspects to be considered in next evaluations are the following ones:

1. Host country of every meeting should send to the evaluation coordinator the email addresses of students and teachers from the host country attending these CLIL lesson presentations.  The rest of the email addresses are obtained from the ‘host families’ spreadsheet, which contains the visitors’ personal details.
2. Considering the reduced number of students who completed the evaluation form in the first meetings, it is essential to reserve a period of time (half an hour or an hour) for students to complete the CLIL lesson evaluation sheet on the last day of the meeting.  This way we make sure that most students will complete this form.
3. According to the instructions at the beginning of the questionnaires, students should be reminded not to complete the evaluation questions about their own country: they are just evaluating other countries’ CLIL lessons, not their own.

Apart from these remarks, CLIL lessons are being evaluated positively in every aspect.

One of the aspects which need improvement is timing, for this reason, countries commit to have presentations no longer than fifty minutes, avoiding this way problems with schedule to the host country.

After revising the questionnaire, it is suggested that we should add an item to the questionnaire about the use of ICT in CLIL lessons, since this is one of the main targets of the project.

As we have time left, we proceed to the distribution of CLIL lesson topics about NATURAL RESOURCES:

• Bulgaria: forestry
• Poland: fossil fuels
• Lithuania: agriculture
• Romania: mineral water
• Greece: solar power
• Spain: wind power

The deadline for the meeting in Poland (27th-31st March) are also stated:

Friday, 10th March 2017 →  Deadline to upload CLIL lessons in Twinspace.

Monday, 27th February 2017 → Deadline to send labour market research to host country students.

Monday, 20th February → Deadline to send pupils’ coordinators’ names.

MONTHLY REPORTS and MOBILITIES’ EVALUATION

The main change introduced in monthly reports was regarding the publication of the final outcome of every activity.  In the first reports, we were asked to specify the date and place of publication.  Due to the difficulties to find the activities published in different websites (the school’s, Facebook, YouTube,...), the publication should always be made on Twinspace, even if we publish it somewhere else.

No additional changes are suggested for the questionnaires, so they remain the same.

Bearing in mind the comments on difficulties to complete the task in June (CVs, cover letters and video-curriculums), this topic will be dealt with later at the meeting.

Mobility evaluation questionnaires should be elaborated for the visits to Poland, Lithuania and Spain. Poland and Lithuania will prepare their own questionnaire and publish their results.

A final aspect to be considered regarding evaluation and which is not mentioned in schedule is the evaluation of students’ progress: in the first transnational meeting, we elaborated a ‘pre-evaluation’ questionnaire which the students were meant to complete during the first three months of the projects, also other evaluation procedures were used like personal interviews to evaluate language competence in English.  These results should be contrasted with the ones obtained after the last meeting (Spain) so that we prove the progress made by students who effectively took part in the project.  A final questionnaire will be used for such a purpose and other tools that each country chooses to use, so that we are able to elaborate a final report showing in percentages the progress made by students in the four initial aspects we considered in our preevaluation:

• Language competence
• Digital competence
• Knowledge of labour market
• Knowledge of European countries

Polish coordinator (Arthur Baranowsky) comments that they have carried out an intermediate evaluation of students’ progress and that no relevant improvement has been made in their knowledge about the labour market.  It is suggested that the rest of countries should also carry out this sort of intermediate evaluation and check if students are making progress in all aspects or the rest of the countries also detect difficulties.  This issue will be dealt with in Lithuania.

LABOUR MARKET RESEARCH: IMPROVEMENT PROPOSALS

Bulgaria (Ludmila) suggests that every country focus on their own labour market because it is difficult to find out about other countries, since information is not always available in English.  She shows the rest of the group the spreadsheet she has prepared with her students and all the information compiled about different countries.

- Coordinator (Fernando Maestre) suggests a similar activity to the one presented by Ludmilla in order to find out about labour markets, but only in the countries participating in the project.  Ludmilla will share this document with the rest of countries to be considered as an example.

Fernando reminds the Romanian team that they are the ones in charge of coordinating labour market research, as well as the distribution of responsibilities of the different aspects considered in the project.

PENDING ACTIVITIES: A14, A19 and A20

ACTIVITY 14: Explore resources offered by Internet to find a job: Linkedin, Monsterjobs,...

One difficulty we encounter when doing this activity is that students are not allowed to register at these sites since they are under 16.  Proposals are made to carry out this activity:

• Poland suggests a sort of game to register by getting a copy of the online registration form so that students can fill it in and know how to do it in the future.
• Greece proposal is to find out about other resources to find jobs like newspapers, newspapers online, additional websites.
• Bulgaria suggests that students find information about the country they are interested in, not just their own.
• Poland proposes to share a document to be completed by all students and which could include information about salaries, qualifications, …
• Coordinator suggests that every country could adapt the activities to their own students’ interests and then create a spreadsheet where they all share their findings.

ACTIVITY 19: Students perform a profile of the most easily ‘employable’ people.

Coordinator Fernando suggests that students could create a decalogue for every country.   Then, an online meeting (video-conference) could be held so that students get all the activities and create a ‘European decalogue’ compiling all ideas.  This conference could take place in November.

ACTIVITY 20: Curriculum vitae (Europass), letters of application and video-curriculums.

This activity was too long and set in June, for that reason, some countries have not completed it.  Some countries have not elaborated video- curriculums yet, those who have show their partners examples of their work.

Another aspect which is hard to deal with is privacy.  Some students don’t want their personal details to be published in videos.  Coordinator suggest that they only share their YouTube video-curriculums with teachers, instead of making it public for everyone.

The above are all the topics dealt with during this first session.

2ND SESSION: Tuesday, 20th September 2016

E-BOOKS: IMPROVEMENT PROPOSALS AND FINAL AGREEMENTS

The following aspects are essential to be born in mind so that the e-book can be properly elaborated:

1. The CLIL lesson should be included in only one file which will have doc format (that is .doc or .docx extension).
2. Images and texts which go together should be inserted in tables so that the layout is not changed later and they all stay in same place as initially presented.  This does not apply to long texts and big images.
3. Images should include hyperlinks outside the image in text format.
4. It was suggested by some participants and agreed in meeting in Romania that all CLIL lessons will include the key at the end but no one has sent the document with the solutions for the previous units.  For the next three books, CLIL lessons will include a final page with the key.  
5. Deadlines to upload and send CLIL lessons should be respected not to delay the elaboration of ebooks.  
6. The format of images should be .jpg, otherwise the size of these images is too big and changes in format are needed.
7. No changes should be introduced in CLIL lessons after publication deadline.  Everyone is asked to check and make necessary corrections before deadline.

Bearing in mind that some of these specifications have not been taken into account in the last CLIL lesson: Natural and Cultural Heritage, partners are given an extra week (deadline: 27th September) to check that their lessons are following the above directions, as well as to insert the key at the end of this CLIL lesson.

Greece comments on the difficulty to read the book in pdf format due to contrast with printed bottom. Coordinating team is aware of such a problem, but such difficulty does not exist when book is in doc format or when printed, that is why it has remained in such colours.

These e-books will have Creative Commons license and it is being considered and explored the possibility of getting an ISBN for such publications.

EUROPASS DOCUMENTATION

Europass mobility documents for all students should be saved and published in electronic format in Twinspace under the tab created for such a purpose: Europass mobilities.  In case, we have these documents only in paper version, they should be scanned and then uploaded.

Europass mobilities can also be inserted in Europass curriculum vitae.

FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS

Videoconference for activity 19 is agreed to be held in HangOut (Live event), since this way it can be recorded and seen in YouTube.  All partners check that they know how it works.

Deadlines A19: decalogue of most easily employable people in Europe:

• Deadline: national decalogue most easily employable people:

Students share the decalogue and send the name and gmail of the students in charge to arrange the videoconference.  The decalogue should include abilities, skills, personality features, qualifications, experience, ...

Wednesday, 16th November

• Date of the videoconference to create the European decalogue:

One or two students per country arrange the videoconference and agree to create the final European decalogue.

Wednesday, 30th November

18:00 PM (Spanish and Poland time: one hour later for the rest of the countries)

The above are all the topics dealt with during the second session of this transnational meeting.

3RD SESSION: Wednesday, 21st September 2016

DISSEMINATION PLAN AND FINAL CONCLUSIONS

The following aspects have been the ones dealt with at this final session:

Greek team is the one in charge of dissemination plan and a report should be sent after every meeting left (Lithuania, Poland and Spain).  The points to be taken into account are the following ones:

• Students from every country should have a blog which is updated after every meeting, Greek team should make sure that this is effectively done by all the teams.
• Opening conferences with parents and local skateholders: pictures of such meetings, videos, press releases or some proof of it should be published, so these should be sent to the coordinator so that he can publish them.  Arthur suggests inserting an additional tab for dissemination plan where all these can be compiled, this tab is created at the moment.
• The report should also include the periodic press releases done by every country.  Partners have done lots of dissemination activities but they must be registered somehow.
• Dissemination activities in Teacher Training Centres, Career Development Centres, Inspector Board, universities or other institutions will be carried out by every partner.  They are taking part in courses or conferences to share and widespread their Erasmus+ experience in this project.

Greek team should write such reports about dissemination plan and make sure that this is being done by every country.  They will decide on the method to do this and let the other countries know if they have to send any information.

Fernando reminds the distribution of responsibilities: what part of the project every country is responsible for.

The impact of the project is to be monitored by the Bulgarian partner.  Coordinator remarks the main points to be considered in the impact section of our project.  A report on this issue will have to be included in our final report at the end of the project.

Romania is in charge of coordinating labour market research and are the ones to control that these are carried out by every country. They should write reports about this aspect.

Lithuania team will receive the information about CLIL lessons by email.  This is the part they are responsible for.

The use of “mobility tool” is revised, since here it is where the final report should be inserted. Project management issues are commented on and how this aspect is considered by different national agencies.

By signing this record all partners accept the agreements reached in this transnational meeting:

Velingrad, 21st September 2016

SIGNED BY:

FROM GREECE:                                         FROM         LITHUANIA:        

Evangelos Kapetis        Maria Ntantami        Laima Baltutienè        Valentina Kinderienè

FROM POLAND:                FROM ROMANIA:

Artur Baranowski                Gabriela Tatuc                Cecilia Oana Craciun        

FROM BULGARIA:                                FROM SPAIN:

 Ivanka Pukneva        Liudmyla Ryzhuk        Fernando Maestre        Reme Vázquez