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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SEEVAL: 2nd Transnational Meeting in Athens, Greece

Action Synergy organized this hybrid project meeting in Athens from November 22-23, 2021. Representatives from the partners from Austria, Greece, and Romania were present in Athens while the representatives from Bulgaria, Italy and Malta participated online.

The meeting was used to report on the progress of the National teacher trainings in the implementing countries Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, and Romania and to discuss the structure, template, and deadlines of the Trainings’ evaluation reports which will evaluate these trainings as well as to elaborate on the upcoming piloting at the participating schools.

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Discussing Climate Change in Corviale

Corviale, il “Serpentone”, or “Big Snake”, a building 1 km long, the “horizontal skyscraper” in the deprived periphery of Rome was the hosting place of the 2nd transnational meeting of the Erasmus+ “Change the Change” project which took place on the 30th and 31st of July.

The civil society organisations that are active in Corviale have developed a Master Plan for the regeneration of the area which includes many aspects of Green and Environmental sustainability. These aspects were presented and discussed with the partners of the project in Mitreo, the cultural space of the community of Corviale.

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