The LEADEXT project began in Poland

The first meeting if the LEADEXT project was organised in Radom, Poland at the 7th and 8th of April 2022. The kick-off meeting was hosted by the Radom Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the participation of partners from Poland, Denmark and Greece.

The city of Radom, around 100 klm from Warsaw is known for its history and its tradition in metalurgy. Many important metalurgic companies are concentrated in the region and we had the chance to visit, Azz, one of the most important of them, and discuss their strategy for recruitment and development of employees in the welding industry.

The aim of the LEADEXT project is to train specialists working in Vocational Education in order to develop the relations between VET and the enterprises.

Kick-off Meeting of CSR2VET in Lund

The kick-off meeting of the CSR2VET project was organised on the 28th of February 2022 in Lund, Sweden. We were hosted by the coordinator of the project, Mobilising Expertise in Ideon Science Park in order to start working on the project, define the project objectives and activities and organise the work for the first intellectual output, the handbook CSR from A to Z which will examine what the VET sector does (and doesn’t) in relation with Corporate Social Responsibility, why it should (or shouldn’t) bother and how their involvement in these issues may affect their training and teaching.

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Free Online Seminar on narrative methods for the improvement of social inclusion in the classroom

Improvement of the social inclusion in the classroom through three narration methods: Drama in Education, Creative Narration of Fairy Tales and Digital Storytelling

18 January- 2 February 2022 online (zoom)

In the framework of the Erasmus+ DIVERSE project, we invite you to participate in an online seminar addressing teachers of primary and secondary school.

In this seminar we are going to examine how three narration methods: Drama in Education, Creative Narration of Fairy Tales and Digital Storytelling can be used in order to improve social inclusion and diversity management in the classroom.

The seminar has a total duration of 30 hours from which 18 are going to be made in a synchronous way (via zoom) while the remaining 12 in an asynchronous way.

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Two handbooks for the assessment of speaking and writing skills in EFL

In the framework of the ASSESS project, Action Synergy, through our collaboration with Stelios Xintaras, English Teacher-Translator-Cambridge Speaking Examiner, dip RSA-MA, has developed two handbooks aiming to facilitate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers to construct assessment scales to evaluating speaking and writing skills of the students. The handbooks suggest specific evaluation criteria and give specific examples of rubrics that can be used in order to evaluate these skills. The handbooks focus on A1 and A2 level. Here, you can download the handbook for the speaking skills and here the handbook for the writing skills.

Training for English Language Teachers in Athens

In the framework of the ASSESS project, from the 14th till the 16th of December, there was organised in Athens a training for English language teachers related with new methods for assessment and teaching of English as a foreign language. The training took place in “Stratos Vassilikos” hotel and involved around 20 people from 5 countries (Greece, Germany, Turkey, Spain and Portugal).

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