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Description
The project "Distance education - a challenge for the teacher, an opportunity for the student" addresses the fundamental needs of modern education in the time of the Covid 19 pandemic and long after it. The school has become a virtual entity living in the world of Teams, Zoom and other remote education platforms. Lack of knowledge, equipment and poor cyber competences are the realities of Polish education. Hence the idea for this project.
The justification for the need to implement the project is the need to level the chances of school development, educational deficiencies, psychological help, search for new solutions, methods and techniques of teachers and managerial staff. School staff must match the level of digital competences in the modern world. Participants, i.e. teachers, principals, students and parents, need to find solutions to the problems and technological, training and psychological barriers, pedagogical concepts and ways of conducting distance learning for which they have not been sufficiently trained. The crisis in the process of training and professional development is a challenge to act intensively also in the international field.
4 teachers and the headmaster will take part in visit. Qualified educators and therapists with many years of experience in working with children with special educational needs, including autism and hearing impaired children. We have been implementing Erasmus +, Power and other projects for years. Open, communicative, creative and interested in modern technologies that can improve and modernize education.
Summary of project results
Project activities as part of the realized study visit were rich and carried out at a high level. These were: a stay at a Norwegian school (workshops for teachers, principals, meeting with a psychologist), a visit to the University, CEN, in the areas of: student education, assessment in remote work, children''s emotions, online safety, ways of motivating teachers and students to work exhausted from remote education, ways of managing the facility in the period of the pandemic in Polish and Norwegian schools, shaping digital skills of teachers and students in the field of digitization of education. During the study visit, the working time in the host school was used to the maximum. As planned, a visit to another educational institution in the area took place. During a stay at the Norwegian school, there was a teleconference with the Polish school and an exchange of experiences. The partner school professionally prepared for the visit and performed its tasks at a high level. Polish participants made an effort to make the most of the time for development. We experienced a completely digital way of teaching during the visit. For this reason, we carefully observed their work from the perspective of both the teacher and the student. We took part in lessons, talked with the staff and students. These meetings lasted a long time and were fruitful, especially touching were the meetings of Polish students whose families settled in Haramsoy. 3 work days made it possible to meet people, observe their everyday school life, work and study organization, and learn about the key advantages and originality of Norwegian island schools. The collected materials, objectives and indicators were thoroughly analyzed and disseminated during visits to Polish educational institutions, meetings and the event disseminating the project dedicated to the project. The cooperation with the Norwegian school after the end of the mobility is still ongoing, we meet regularly online and exchange experiences.
Summary of bilateral results
Haramsoy Skule School was very friendly to us and concerned about our emotional well-being and the substantive level of the visit. She fulfilled her role as a target model for improving our competence and quality of work. She made us believe that such a high level of IT competence of teachers and students is possible, that the latest creations of technology: robots, drones, virtual reality glasses and others can also be with us. Teachers and students working on laptops and tablets on a daily basis showed exactly how this model works and pointed out the advantages of this way of working. In summary, we were provided with a comfortable stay, proper working conditions, willing sharing of their knowledge and experience, and friendship.The staff of the Haramsoy school organized our study visit in the most interesting way possible, and gave us access to the arcana of their knowledge, their activities, the system of digitization of teaching. The school directors of Norway and Poland exchanged knowledge and experience, and presented their ways of managing their institutions during the pandemic. We compared the state of the school''s preparation for remote classes and planned a scenario to overcome the barriers encountered in the future. The school in Haramsoy provided us with all the rooms for observation. We visited and worked at a second school managed by headmaster Kenneth Ulla on another island, where we also spent long hours sharing experiences and learning from Norwegian teachers. The staff at the school is friendly and open-minded, which made it possible to achieve high quality results and fruitful dissemination of the project in the local, national and European environments.