It’s easy to
teach, if you know how
Erasmus
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24 months: 2016-2018
Coordinator: Fundacja "Aktywni XXI" (Poland)
Partners:
Association
E-Seniors (France)
UCLM – Universidad
de Castilla - La Mancha (Spain)
The project titled „It is easy to teach – if you know how” was created in
response to observed, by the partners organisations, difficulties with choosing
the appropriate methods of teaching the elderly. Methods of teaching children,
youth and adults have been widely developed. However, there are very few works
on the methods of teaching seniors (50+), which would consider perceptive
capability of the students, resulting from the adequate to this age brain work.
All the partners taking part in the project are organisations educating senior
citizens and they have problems resulting from the lack of methodological materials
for teachers working with student over 50. That is why the objective of the
project is the development of language workshops for seniors. If the
planned workshops are to succeed, we have to answer two questions:
1. Why do seniors want to learn a foreign language?
2. What are the difficulties and obstacles which cause low efficiency of
studying at this age?
The answer to these questions will allow developing the right workshop
topics (meeting the needs of the students) and the right methods which will
enable overcoming the difficulties.
Thanks to the cooperation of three organisations experienced in educating
the seniors we will be able to develop effective methods of working with the
seniors and offer an interesting form of learning English, which will encourage
the seniors to learn and be more active in the classes. The cooperation of the
organisations from different countries will also give the opportunity to
prepare video classes, which will enable our students to check their skills in
practice. One of the forms offered during the workshops will be to stay in
touch (via the e-mail, social networking site or Skype) with the other
participants of the workshops. It will make it easier to overcome the language
barrier and start communicating in English.
The people who are going to realize the project, have known each other
since they met in earlier LLP projects. Since they are engaged in the work of
institutions leading the programmes of seniors education, they decided to have
a common partnership project.
The project will be realized by:
-Foundation “Aktywni XXI”, runs the Academy of
the Third Age
- UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA - LA MANCHA, runs the University of the Third Age
- “E-seniors”, educates the seniors in the area of basic skills
Foundation “Aames.ktywni XXI” will be the
coordinator of the project. The partners will develop the programme of language
workshops using their previous experience in this field. The Polish partner
will prepare the lessons scenarios with the use of their knowledge of
educational games. The Spanish partner will use e-learning. The prepared
materials will be instantly tested during the lessons of English for seniors
led by the partner’s organizations. The teachers will exchange opinions and
suggestions concerning the effects of using the materials. At the international
partners meetings, the host’s senior students will also meet the participants
of the partners meeting.
Each partner will be obliged to prepare 3 lesson scenarios. All the
scenarios will be compiled into one methodological publication in English - the
common project language. The Polish partner will be responsible for collecting
and developing these materials in an electronic form. The French partner will
prepare the material publicizing the project – a leaflet and a poster. The
Spanish partner will write a blog on Facebook.
Each of the partners will be responsible for organizing the project meetings
in their countries.
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