1. - 6.03.2010. - Project meeting in Latvia
Would you like to go to ice-hall playing hockey or figure skating instead of boring math-lesson in the beginning of school day? I think most of teenagers would clap their hands on this question. In real life there is such possibility in Jelgava 3.Pamatskola (Latvia). Participants of Nordplus Junor project meeting from Iceland and Estonia saw it with their own eyes in the beginning of March 2010. They also realized that the same kids, who had training early in the morning, were more peaceful and efficient in lessons.
During the first week of March teachers of Sõmeru Põhikool (Estonia) and Rejikjavik Korpuskóli visited several lessons in Jelgava 3.Pamatskola and observed their Latvian colleagues working. Development project: “Professional development workshops for teachers. Sharing good practice” started in the beginning of this school year and aims of this project we can say in two words “Quality in lesson”. Observed lessons were well organized, interesting and pupils took actively part in integrated learning process.
Many useful workshops and lectures took place during project meeting.
Local newspaper article 04.03.2010 about project meeting you can find: http://www.jelgavasvestnesis.lv/page/53?news_id=8090
During the first week of March teachers of Sõmeru Põhikool (Estonia) and Rejikjavik Korpuskóli visited several lessons in Jelgava 3.Pamatskola and observed their Latvian colleagues working. Development project: “Professional development workshops for teachers. Sharing good practice” started in the beginning of this school year and aims of this project we can say in two words “Quality in lesson”. Observed lessons were well organized, interesting and pupils took actively part in integrated learning process.
Many useful workshops and lectures took place during project meeting.
- We learned Latvian folksongs and dances in Latvian national culture workshop.
- We learned history of Jelgava and Latvia in history lessons in Jelgava Palace and in Rundale Palace.
- We learned history of Latvian art in Gederts Eliass History and Art Museum.
- Bus excursion in Riga turned to “lesson of art noveau” architecture.
- We learned many useful teaching methods in lecture “Content and Language Integrated Learning” by Gunta Krigere. One example: we assembled Latvian bread passport and learned through it process of bread-baking and geography of Latvia.
- The other day we continued the same issue by visiting “Laci” bakery, where we really saw bread baking process in details with our own eyes, smelled and tasted fresh bread, baked our own cookies.
- In ICT lecture by Ugis Peksa (from Latvian Academy of Agriculture) we practiced how to make tests and exercises with the weeb tools of “HotPotatoes” and “TurboDemo”.
- We had fun in Charles Goodger´s workshop “Songs and movement for small children in English”. We sang and played together with the pupils and realized how easy was to remember new words. C.Goodger introduces his teaching method in Latvia now and he plans to go to Estonia too. You can find website of this splendid method: http://www.funsongs.co.uk/.
Local newspaper article 04.03.2010 about project meeting you can find: http://www.jelgavasvestnesis.lv/page/53?news_id=8090
