Hello friends :)
A year went by and we worked very hard on our project, doing a lot of things! You can read above about our transnacional meetings:
"During the year 2016, three Transnational Meetings / Training / Exposition of Good Practices were carried out within the scope of the multilateral TRODEU project, which has as partners Sweden, Belgium and the Canaries. The first meeting this year took place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 12-16 April, and we were received by Oili Vesenne and Irina Bergman, teachers of Spanish and English, respectively, at the Multicultural Folk High School.
Multicultural Folk High School is a secondary school, integrated into the Swedish educational system and belongs to a network of 150 schools of this type that are spread all over the country.
Some 45 people work at the school, including the principal, pegagogical coordination teachers, teacher assistants and non-teaching staff.
The school is located outside the center of Gothenburg, in a suburban area with a high percentage of immigrant population. At the time of its construction, the school served exclusively Finnish immigrants or spoke Finnish. From 1996 onwards it became known as Multicultural Folk High School, receiving immigrants whose mother tongues are Somali, Arabic and Kurdish among others. At present, between teachers and students, more than 24 different mother tongues are spoken!
During this meeting there were specific moments for each partner to present their institution and the work that develops, to work on project themes, discuss proposals and give suggestions, to attend some classes, to introduce TRODEU to the school community and also to know a little Gothenburg and Swedish culture.
On 14 April we were received at the Gothenburg Town Hall by the Councilor for Culture, who met us for an hour and a half, gave us an insight into the work they have done on a cultural level for the people of Gothenburg and asked us to present the TRODEU project and The institutions that each of us represented, as well as the work developed for the benefit of education.
On the 15th, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., it was spent at the school where we actively participated in the "Open Day of Multicultural Folk High School".
There was a great exposition of the works carried out by the students and teachers throughout the school year, several workshops taking place simultaneously with the participation of the community (Kurdish and Eritrean dances, ceramics, jewelry, Eritrean coffee ceremony, Mindfulness through drawing, traditional Guinean music ...). Lunch was served at school and the food was prepared by the students, starting with the different nationalities and the traditional flavors of each one. After lunch we were working on the project and preparing the work to be developed by June, which will be presented in Belgium.
The second Project / Training Meeting was held in Belgium, the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), the Faculty of Letters and also "Erasmus House", from 12 to 16 June. We were greeted by Dr Patrícia Morales and Dr. Roger Janssen, the Belgian team present in this transnational project. We had a very interesting and intense work program with the mornings spent in the Faculty and the afternoons in visits to various institutions.
The meeting began on the 13th at 9am with a healthy breakfast around the work table at the Erasmus House. In fact, every morning started like this! Each partner then presented the activities carried out since the meeting in Sweden, and demonstrations of some of these activities related to Experimental Sciences and to Children's Literature were given. Several issues were discussed and doubts were raised regarding future activities, such as the construction of a "Digital Backpack", the carrying out of a MOOC on Don Quixote, the maintenance of the blog, the beginning of a study on teaching; etc…
Most of our afternoons were filled with meetings and visits to different formal and informal educational institutions for young people and adults such as "De Wijnpers" - a professional school linked to the Agricultural activity; The Center for Living Languages "Centrum voor Levende Talen - CTL"; "Sint Albertus College" - school for specific learning of Flemish; The "SPIT - Kringwinkel" - a municipal institution that employs about two hundred people who do all the sorting, recycling, recovery and sale of second-hand materials - (http://www.spit.be/inzamelcentrum-spit. Aspx); The Municipal Academy of Plastic Arts "Beeldende Kunst Overijse BKO"; The "De Keerselaar" - a center for reception and work for adults with special needs (http://users.telenet.be/dekerselaar/visie.html); The Center for Reception for Political Refugees - "Rixensart" and the beautiful Leuven Library.The closing of the work took place in the house of Prof. Patrícia who was kind enough to invite us all to a dinner with various flavors!
https://www.kuleuven.be/english
The third and final meeting of the year / Exhibition of Good Practices took place between 23 and 30 October in Lanzarote, the island that José Saramago, the Nobel of Portuguese Literature, elected to live.
This working meeting was part of a very important annual event for teachers in the Canary Islands: CIJLEES Meetings. These annual meetings are organized by an Association of Teachers of Language and Literature, "SOCAEN - Sociedad Canaria Elio Antonio de Nebrija", and every year, the meetings are held on a different island within the Canary Islands archipelago.
SOCAEN is also the general coordinating entity of TRODEU and it was a pleasure to have the opportunity to be present and to have participated in the "X CIJLEES Encounter and International Exhibition of Library Experiences and Animation of the Reader", having as general theme the Commemoration of IV Centennial of the Death of Cervantes that took place on October 27, 28 and 29, at the Centro Civico de Arrecife. In addition to the participation in these three days of intense sharing of practices, experiences and knowledge that counted with teachers of various degrees of education, from pre-school to university education, we also had the participation of several researchers from the work of Cervantes, experienced area librarians Various workshops ranging from origami to illustration, book launching, outdoor recitals, awarding of prizes, public presentation of the TRODEU project by the various partners and the debate on the importance of the participation of schools in projects of this kind. Gender, a table called "The European Projects an Important Tool at the Service of Education".
In addition to the meeting, where we took stock of the work done and what we have to do and implement on the ground, we were putting together two exhibitions. The first one was the "TRODEU Good Practice Exhibition", within the "X CIJLEES Meeting and International Exhibition of Library Experiences and Reader Animation", where each partner had a space to present their school or association, as well as the work done for each in the framework of this transnational Project.
ICE presented its various publications, as well as the work developed, both in Setúbal and Braga, within the scope of this project, in the form of powerpoints and products made by the participating students and teachers. We thank the Group of Schools Dr. Francisco Sanches and especially the students of the 5th grade class, Prof. Isabel Candeias, for the fantastic work of creating bookmarks of books and blocks, which they performed from the presentation And reading the work of Cervantes - "D. Quixote ", which were exhibited and, at the end of the meeting, offered to participating teachers.
We are also grateful to the Vila Verde School Group, especially to the 3rd grade class of Prof.ª Céu, with whom we presented and read "D. Quixote ", as well as a building of book markers. We know that these two groups continue to deepen the theme of Don Quixote and are preparing plays, puppets and puppets for the retelling of this timeless story.
The second exhibition took place in the Cultural Exhibition Hall of the Town Hall in Charco San Ginés - "Interactive Exhibition on Cervantes' Life, Work and Death - Importance and Influence of" El Quixote "in the World". For this exhibition we counted, in addition to book markers and blocks made by Portuguese students, with a "gigantinho" (a small statue) of D. Quixote, performed by the Bracaran artist and bonecreiro, Constantino Teixeira. Tino, known nationally for its "gigantinos e bonetinas, cabeçudos e gigantones", has collaborated with ICE in various events, formations and projects, being also a partner and trainer in the EB2 / 3 Dr. Francisco Sanches.
To conclude this report, I can not fail to mention how well we were received by the Alcadesa of the City Council of Arrecife, Mrs. Eva de Anta de Benedito, with whom the TRODEU group met to present the project and get to know the Municipality and its educational policies better, as well as the colleagues from the Canaries who welcomed us and also provided us with participation in various cultural activities, from sessions With storytellers, going on a trip to the famous vineyards of Lanzarote and ending with the fantastic study visit to the volcanoes of the Timanfaya National Park."
To all colleagues TRODEU, our "Thank you!"
Valor máximo de carateres excedido
Andréa Duarte
ICE - Institute of Educational Communities
Portuguese Coordinator of TRODEU
