Mentoring activity group 11 final
- 1. Mentoring activity Group number 11 Group members MariaTeresaRughi Soumaya Hlali Veerle De Deckere Andrea Simonovics Veturia Seserman Claudia Valentini
- 2. Objectives Prepare an on- site seminar dedicated to new eTwinners and eTwinners-to-be
- 3. Activities Event preparation • View the projects which have been awarded with National QLs (any school level) • Personally contact and invite the awarded teachers to take part to the seminar • Ask them to prepare a short video to illustrate their project and talk about the benefits (for themselves, the students, the school, etc..) At the on-site seminar • Welcome newcomers with an icebreaking tea and biscuits corner and an exhibition of images from etwinning events / projects can be organized, as a poster session during which the awarded teachers to present their projects, testimonials may be relevant, if it is possible, we would invite some students to speak about their experience with eTwinning projects. It can convince newcomers about the impact of eTwinning. • Talk with people you Know and do not know and let them feel at ease, ask them something about their teaching experience • Give a short presentation to explain what etwinning is and the opportunities it offers, after that, divide the group and let them follow 2 different workshops: 1) in one workshop they get to view some videos and meet one teacher with an awarded project explaning about the project. 2) the other workshop could be about finding partners and setting the teachers at work on eTwinningLive (Forum, Virgilio group :-)...). • What is very important is that the teachers attending get a lot of posters / cards that they can hang in their own school (= promotion material). • Back again in plenary group, play a Kahoot to understand what they already know about etwinning • As a follow up activity, we would ‘gamify’ this activity involving ‘old and new’ eTwinners, by organising a Geocaching_eTwinners experience. What’s Geocaching? It can be embedded in the Twinspace and allows to be active on site, by placing a “geocache” in a place in your hometown, or in a park, or in the wildlife near your home,... Fo this event, we could create a ‘treasure chest’ in which we could add the presented projects TwinSpace’s address, Ambassadors eTwinning profile link, some objects related to our heritage, chosen by the participants and/or by eTwinners to be. This leaves each participant, with a concrete commitment with eTwinning for his/her school.
- 4. • a poster can be used as well • flyers with steps to engage in eTwinning • a Padlet where newcomers put their expectations of eTwinning. It can be a starting point of a conversation This video can be helpful
- 5. Who does/has done what? • Regional coordinator sends official invitation to teachers who received the National QLs • Regional coordinator sends invitations to the seminar to all the schools in the selected area • One ambassador prepares the kahoot • One ambassador prepares the presentation of etwinning ( and the new app) • One ambassadors stresses on the opportunities offered (LE, PDW, Move2Learn2Move ect...) • The ambassadors team prepares for geocaching • Teachers who have been awarded with National QL illustrate their projects (topic, subjects involved, benefits, problems etc.) • A mentimeter question “What do you bring back home from this meeting”? is asked and the code to menti.com is given to enter the answers. • If ambassadors run a group in etwinning Groups, they invite participants to join the group for an online follow up event (ex. Q&A session)