1. Modern teaching methods - eTwinning inspiration
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. - Gail Godwin
Modern teaching methods - eTwinning inspiration
Sławomir Wronka
Seminar eTwinning for science teachers
Warsaw, r

2. ’Traditional’ teaching - consequences
”Controllable” class, teachers may teach on the blackboard, explain, ask/force ?/ students to copy and make sure students pay attention and listen.
Students are afraid of their teachers and respect them. 
Students are too afraid to ask questions. 
Disciplining the students with scolding makes the teacher tired (sit down and heat up your chair) while students get traumatized in school. 

3. What about a ’Modern’ teaching ?
Teachers prepare the slide-show presentations.
Students can do their studying and their work all in the computer without depending 100% on their teachers in schools.
There is also classroom contract which consists on agreement between teachers and student regarding on how each will contribute to and behave in the classroom to start building a partnership relation /student’s expectation towards independence/.

4. Results
Students have a bonding relationship with their teacher to be their friend so that they can share their problems to the teacher without being afraid. 
Students become too independent, they don’t need guidance from anybody because they think they can accomplish anything by themselves. 
Online games and www instead of their studies 
Too much technology (Video, PPT, animations etc)
Students begin to be too comfortable with their teacher as their friend in schools and forget their responsibilities and respect over the teacher. 

5. Therefore…
the teaching methods should BE THE compromise & balance between ‚old style’ and ‚modern techniques’…
Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating

6. To be a teacher…
is really a very hard task. Why ? Because of some ”little” expectations…

7. More and more… Be positive, create interest Be innovative and creative
Use simple language
Use your experience & humor
Use examples, stories, case studies
Interact with students
Be organized
Analyze the audience

8. Create Active learning Environment
Mr. J V Gorabal
Asst Prof CSE , RLJIT DBPUR

9. Can eTwinning help you ? YES ! Non-standard work Lot of activities
International surrounding
Motivates you & your students
Creates occasions for beeing with students and have fun
Charge your personal battery by contacts with other „crazy” teachers
Win – win project !

10. Feel a „spirit” of eTwinning
What is preferred ?
good idea (your own proposal or join good one)
clear and logic task list
some relations to teaching program
partnership cooperation - TEAM WORK !
ICT
innovation & creativity (content, methods, enhancement of correct behaviors)
personal interest development
results (for participants and collected materials), ”EUropeanism”

11. Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Be proud!

12. Good examples – find a TOPIC
„BE TWIN ! - Twinning up the everyday lesson”
The project aims at introducing eTwinning-based activities into everyday school life. It does not concentrate on one single topic, but it offers a different approach to everyday didactics, bringing eTwinning into the curricula. We want to prove that ICT and teamwork can add to pupils’ motivation and involvement in all normally planned activities of different disciplines, and that eTwinning-based didactics is not time-consuming but creativity-inducing.

13. Pupil's age:
Tools to be used: Audio conference, Chat, , Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
Aims: 1) introduce ICT tools, Web 2.0., teamwork, in the everyday lesson; 2) offer to all pupils different learning opportunities and different learning contexts, so that anyone can perform well in at least one of them; 3) individualize teaching strategies; 4) provide motivation for both pupils and teachers; 5) personalize the process of learning (working in pair with a real partner coming from a different cultural and social environment); 6) introduce eTwinning-based activities as just another tool in the development of the curricula; 7) involve more teachers (ideally, the whole teachers' team of the involved classes) in eTwinning-based didactics
Project's steps: 1) all involved students, in the two different schools will be given a partner from the other school; 2) that boy/girl will be the student's TWIN till the end of the project; 3) all disciplines will be addressed; 4) all involved teachers will have their TWIN teacher in the other Institute; 5)…

15. Good examples – find a TOPIC

16. Noah’s ark
Noah’s Ark is the project between Malta and Slovakia about animals and we chose the above title because Noah’s Ark has become a symbol and as such as not remained exclusively with the Bible story we find in Genesis, but it represents the ecological values of defending the eco-system and animal species.

17. Pupil's age: 7 - 9
Tools to be used: Audio conference, , Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Web publishing
Aims: To encourage children to write well and express themselves in writing using the English Language. To compare and contrast animals found in Malta and in Slovakia respectively and also to gain information about these animals and their habitats. To improve the children’s ICT skills and help them realise that ICT can truly be an asset towards learning in a better and a motivated way. To improve the children’s creativity through various media.
Work process: Project will start with the children in both schools introducing themselves to each other through a powerpoint and individual s....

19. Pupil's age:
Tools to be used: Chat, , Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
Aims: Learn that Sun is a star around which orbit planets.- Observe sunspots behaviour with time, measure their sizes.- Observe Sun's rotation and calculate its period.- Realise a movie out of Sun pictures made by all partners.- Build a real scientific collaboration between schools from different regions and cultures.
Work process: After introducing to each other, common methodology to observe and situate sunspots will be established. Similar equipment will be used….

20. Let’s see the movie - SOHO

22. Pupil's age:
Tools to be used: Audio conference, Chat, , Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
Aims: We want to show that Maths can be more than a class in the timetable, it can be a world of imagination and creativity, populated by interesting and peculiar things, just like Lewis Carol’s book “Alice in Wonderland” […]
Work process: […] We intend to use an on-line magazine, a blog, animations, Voki, podcasts and other web 2.0 tools. We will use methodological approaches such as web-based learning, games, peer and informal education, collaborative learning.

23. Good examples – method of work

24. Create an international team
Video-conferences
Chat
Twin-space
Web-tools /doodle etc/
Exchange of the results, analysis toogether with your partners
eTwinning – is the community for schools in Europe

25. Realisation Define goals. Stimulate group work.
Bring in proffesionals to give talks, visit University/
laboratory.
Review/evaluation – what we have learned.
©NCBJ,

26. Good examples - results
What your pupils can preare.

27. Be careful !
Good project but not eTwinning…For example game competition in cooperating schools. How can you organize a „team-work” ?
Not-noticed activities (reporting takes time). Evaluation is helpful.
Wonderful start but difficult „every-day-life” kills your enthusiasm.

28. eTwinning - summary
You get perfect opportunity to combine a mixture of methods – books, technology and hand-on experiments.

29. TEACHER IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR ! Good luck!
Teacher and teaching, Mr. J V Gorabal
Asst Prof CSE , RLJIT DBPUR

30. Teaching, an art.to be perfected, Dr.T.V.Rao MD