DIGI-SCHOOL PROJECT

MODULES AND APPLICATIONS FOR INCREASING SCHOOL SUCCESS OF STUDENTS WITH THE INNOVATIVE DIGITAL SCHOOL MODEL

NA Support Number:

2020-1-TR01-KA226-SCH-097822

Context

The partners

• Necmettin Erbakan University (Coordinator)
• Düzce University Turkey
• Dezavantajli Gruplari Anlama ve Sosyal Destek Dernegi
• (DEGDER) Turkey
• Mecidiye İlkokulu Turkey
• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU Slovenia
• ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL (3AS) LTD United Kingdom
• Spolupracou pre lepsiu buducnost - Velky Meder Slovakia

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Introduction

• The world has accelerated, information cannot be observed, everything is automatized when the child finalises the school, the profession he studies stop to exist, borders between countries are slowly wipe away and a large global society is resulting where we need to find existence mainly employment.

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Introduction

• Added to these facts was the biggest challenge of 2020 - the corona crisis. Its effects are difficult to model and estimate, but a strategy focused on the future is needed that takes into account direct operational effects, including secondary and tertiary ones.

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Introduction

• The corona crisis also highlighted the importance of lifelong learning for teachers, who had to respond flexibly to the created conditions and find appropriate solutions in the teaching process for the benefit of pupils (e.g. online teaching).

Introduction

• According to Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 Conceptual Framework, even though teachers are participating in in-service/further training, they still feel like they need more training in the field of those skills and competencies for education required for 21st century, such as teaching of cross-curricular skills, using of ICT teaching and teaching in multicultural environment or multilingual settings.

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Introduction

• In each partner country, teachers use online teaching tools to different degrees and at different levels. In addition to the lack of digital competences of teachers, the partnership identified the most common problems:

1. different access to the Internet,

2. different ability to manage online communication,

Introduction

3. different technical and human barriers to using computer and online space at a specific time,

4. different motivation,

5. different family background (sense of security), family climate,

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Introduction

6. age-appropriate communication, missing or harmful interaction of children in peer groups,

7. school as a space for children to escape from problems in the family,

8. underestimation of home education by parents.

Main objectives:�

• 1. Support and development of cross-sectoral international cooperation among universities, schools and counseling and educational services for adults, creation of virtual partner networks
• 2. Developing teachers' digital competencies in accordance with the requirements of today's constantly changing period

Main objectives:

• 3. Increase the use of digital technology in primary schools with adequate teaching and learning materials to be able to improve students' learning potentials.
• 4. Support lifelong learning of teachers

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In order to reach the objectives above, partners will;

• 1. exchange of good practices and experiences from partner countries and from EU
• 2. organize 6 DIGI-SCHOOL workshops in partner countries with relevant stakeholders in order to share collected good experiences from the international environment
• 3. organize 6 DIGI-SCHOOL trainings to increase digital skills of teachers

In order to reach the objectives above, partners will;

• 4. create a communication platform for networking and exchange of good practices
• 5. create DIGI-SCHOOL E-Brochure - collection of 26 best practices from EU and Turkey
• 6. realize dissemination activities in all partner countries via social networks, leaflets, newsletters

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Target groups of the project�Direct and Indirect target groups:

• Direct Target Groups;
• 1.Teachers of primary schools, lecturers, professors, mentors, tutors

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• Indirect Target Groups;
• 1. Universities
• 2. Primary and secondary schools
• 3. Pupils/Students
• 4. Parents of pupils

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Target groups of the project�Direct and Indirect target groups

• 5.Training institutions who providing training for teachers
• 6.Parents
• 7.Consulting organisations in the field of school education
• 8.Partner organizations
• 9.Professional organisations for teachers, umbrella organisations

Meetings and dıssemınatıon

• Partners will hold project meetings 5 times in 4 partner countries.
• Partners will implement an effective dissemination strategy from start to end with all types of dissemination instruments.

Meetings and dıssemınatıon

• So as to ensure the long-term efficiency of the project, partners will involve the community as much as possible to project events, involve local government institutions, schools and umbrella organisations in the project process, institutionalize communication platform, and continue running it even after the project and create innovative project products.

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Project Budget -Summary�Budget

Budget per Participating Organisation

Timetable

goals

• One of the goals of the project is: developing teachers' digital competencies in accordance with the requirements of today's constantly changing period. Digital competence is one of the eight key competences of lifelong learning.

goals

• It is a field that is changing and extending constantly, and it is already more complex than the mere ICT sciences.
• Learning digital technologies, their self-confident, responsible use based on critical way of thinking and the commitment related to it are parts of acquisition of digital competence.

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goals

• It includes the skill of information and data management, communication and cooperation, media awareness, network etiquette and source criticism. Furthermore, it includes the preparation of digital

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responsibilities

• Each partner institution will be responsible for:
• - Timely and quality performance of the tasks
• - The involvement of appropriate experts in the respective activities and their active participation at all international meetings
• - Active communication during all project phases
• - Participation at the delivery of specified tasks within project activities

responsibilities

• - Ensuring the active involvement of participants in local/regional and national activities (DIGI-SCHOOL information workshops)
• - Cooperation in the development of other products (e.g. dissemination materials)
• - Preparation of materials for the website
• - Dissemination activities at the local, regional and national level to relevant stakeholders.

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responsibilities

• A detailed breakdown of responsibilities for the respective intellectual outputs:
• 1. Dissemination plan, dissemination of the project and its regular evaluation (Leader: DEGDER, All partners: dissemination at national level)
• 2. Project quality management plan and internal evaluation plan (Leader: DU, All partners: cooperation in internal evaluation)

responsibilities

• 3. Website in 4 languages (EN, TR, SK, SL) and its regular updating (Leader: NEU, All partners: preparation of information, materials)

- information about the project, partner institutions, target groups, main and specific objectives of the project, up-to-date information on project activities, project products, publication of photo documentation from project meetings, contacts to partner institutions and project managers, important links.

responsibilities

• 4. Project leaflet in 4 languages in electronic and paper form (Leader: SPLP, All partners: translation into national languages)
• - information on the project, objectives, target groups, partner institutions, project products and contacts to partner institutions. The leaflet will be prepared in English and in all th languages of the partnership. Each partner organization will participate in the preparation, the partner SPLB is responsible for the final version.

responsibilities

• 5. Short-term joint staff training events in Turkey - with participation of professional staff of the partner organization (lecturers, professors, mentors, experts, counsellors) and teachers in primary and secondary schools (Leader: NEU, All partners: active participation at the training event)

responsibilities

• 6. DIGI-SCHOOL information workshops - for relevant stakeholders about the project and project results (Leader: AFA, All partners: organizing workshops on local or national level)

responsibilities

• 7. DIGI-SCHOOL training for teachers - in each partner countries (after short-term joint staff training event in order to acquaint participants (teachers) with good experience in the use of online tools in the school environment from EU countries and Turkey (3 workshop in Turkey/ 30 participants, 1 workshop in Slovenia/ 10 participants, 1 workshop in Slovakia/ 10 participants, 1 workshop in UK/ 10 participants - partnership/60 participants). (Leader: AFA - coordination, All partners: organizing training in each partner countries)

responsibilities

• 8. DIGI-SCHOOL E-Brochure - collection of good practices about use of online tools in the school environment from EU countries and Turkey (Leader: MEI, All partners: cooperation in preparation)

responsibilities

• 9. Project Social Media pages (Facebook, Twitter) - information about the project and activities (Leader: UM, All partners: preparation of information, articles, photos, materials)

responsibilities

• 10. Newsletter - three times during the project duration - 1st - information about the project, 2nd about the good practices, 3rd about the project activities (Leader: SPLB, All partners:
• translation into national languages)

Responsibilities-

• 11. Communication platform for networking and exchange of good practices (Leader: UM, All partners: cooperation in content preparation)

quality of project activities.

• 1- All partners will write their progress reports in every 3 months and send them to the coordinator. Progress report is a written document that contains all activities conducted by a corresponding partner in the previous 3 months period.

quality of project activities.

• Partners will report what they did in the previous quarter for contributing to project activities, management, dissemination, meetings, learning teaching activity and progress in any other project products. Partners are responsible for obeying initial work schedule and plan and reporting their activities properly in progress reports.

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quality of project activities.

• 2- All partners will write financial reports in every 3 months period and deliver them to the coordinator. Financial report is also a quarterly report that demonstrates what that partner has got as payment to the date, what it has spent to that date and its budget balance. Hence, these 2 documents contribute considerably to the DU's budget and time management and monitoring functions.

quality of project activities.

• All partners are responsible for truthfully interpreting the quality of their progress and works in the Quality Control Report every 3 months. All partners will send these reports to NEU.

quality of project activities.

• 5- After workshops, trainings, transnational meeting and test training, evaluation questionnaires will be implemented to the participants so as to measure the quality of that activity.

quality of project activities.

• Quality evaluation tests will be created by partners in the first meeting. In DIGI-SCHOOL information workshops will be evaluated with sufficient number of participants from target groups (3-TR with the 30 participants, 1-Slovenia with the 10 participants, 1-Slovakia with the 10 participants, 1-UK with the 10 participants/ a total of 60 participants).

quality of project activities.

• Therefore, feedback from these surveys and questionnaires will be analysed and interpreted thoroughly. If needed, a final report for analysing the feedback will be generated for internal and external users

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quality of project activities.

• 6- One main platform, on which project activities will be displayed will be the project website. Furthermore, project DIGI-SCHOOL will have social media accounts (Twitter and Facebook) for casting in news and information about ex-offenders and other youth related issues

quality of project activities.

• Ratings of the website and news and activities shared in the website; and likes and shares of social media accounts and outputs, the accounts will be continuously followed by the responsible partner. This partner will be designated at the first meeting. It will be the partner which is responsible for following and implementing dissemination activities.

quality of project activities.

• One of the main project management goals of partners is promoting, advertising and disseminating project products as effectively as possible. It is necessary to increase the impact of the project. So, likes, shares, number of visits of Twitter and Facebook accounts and clicks of the website will also be used for monitoring quality of project results.

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For assessing the quality of project results

• Project partners will construct evaluation questionnaires and surveys for all activities and test trainings. Within the framework of DIGI-SCHOOL under Project management and implementation , 6 information workshop will be organized (3-TR, 1-Slovenia, 1-Slovakia, 1-UK) and 6 trainings will be organized (3-TR, 1-Slovenia, 1-Slovakia, 1-UK).

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For assessing the quality of project results

• To evaluate whether and to what extent the project reaches its objectives and results, the strategic partnership foresees that each one of the periodical reports (as Quality reports,
• Evaluation and Monitoring reports) will be based on a set of specific indicators of achievement, at quantitative level including:

For assessing the quality of project results

• - physical monitoring and assessment, by means of performance and result indicators tailored in respect of each results and related activity
• - number of trained teachers
• - number of participants on the workshops, documented by participation table and at qualitative level including:

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For assessing the quality of project results

• - self-evaluation carried out by the experts, researchers, teachers/trainers
• - evaluation questionnaires from the teachers involved to verify the level of satisfaction and skills improvement from the training
• - survey interventions aimed to verify the level of satisfaction of the actors and users involved in the various phases of the project and in particular of the addressees and final users

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For assessing the quality of project results

• - new project ideas and partnerships built by the end of the project- proof for the growth of the professional and management ties between partners
• - strong network and sustainable cooperation between the partner organisations and the involved stakeholders for further international collaboration, exchange of experiences and good practices

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Quantitative indicators:

• Quantitative indicators:
• - number of transnational project meetings (5),
• - number of participants in transnational project meetings (75)
• - number of good practices (26)
• - the number of experts from the partner institutions involved in the process of implementing project activities (min. 15 experts),

Quantitative indicators:

• - number of participants in the pilot testing of the DIGI-SCHOOL training (60 participants)
• - number of participants in DIGI-SCHOOL information workshops at national level (60)
• - number of participants of the Short term joint staff training event in Turkey (19)

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Quantitative indicators:

• - number of feedback forms collected from DIGI-SCHOOL information workshops (60)
• - number of newsletters sent (3 times during the project duration)
• - number of visitors to the project website and social pages (1500)
• - number of progress reports (min. 4 per partner)
• - number of posts on the SCHOOL EDUCATION GATEWAY platform on the international section (2)

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The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• 1) Impacts on participants from partner organisations:
• In order to measure the impacts on the project participants regarding pedagogical approaches and distance learning tools, 3 evaluation questionnaires will be created and distributed
• as follows:
• - During the first transnational meeting
• - During the last transnational meeting
• - 6 months after the end of the project

The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• The two first questionnaires will help to measure the evolution of pedagogical approaches and skills and knowledge about distance learning and online tools during the project lifetime. The last questionnaire will help to measure the effective impact into project participants’ ongoing activities.

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The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• Impacts on partner organisations: Six months after the end of the project, the Project coordinator will send a questionnaire to other partners in order to evaluate 2 main points:
• - Inclusion of the training developed during the project in their training offer or to their existing professional training for our target group

The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• - Inclusion of pedagogical approaches and distance learning tools acquired during the project
• - Collaboration with other educational institutions and training organisations (local, regional, national, European or international level)

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The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• 3) Impacts on the main target groups
• - We plan to measure the impacts on teachers' improvement regarding their digital and problem solving skills and knowledge. 2 evaluation questionnaires will be prepared and distributed before and after the DIGI-SHOOL training.

The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• 4) Impacts on the relevant stakeholders
• This impact will be measured from 3 sides:
• - The number of downloads of the E-brochure
• - The number of incoming contacts from the relevant stakeholders after downloading the E-Brochure
• - The number of incoming contacts from the relevant stakeholders.

The impacts of the project will be measured as follows:

• We expect that the active involvement of the target groups in the project activities (e.g. DIGI-SCHOOL workshops and training) and the access to the project results and products via the dissemination activities, will contribute to extension of the impact on target groups.

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