LTE- DISSEMINATION IES Josep Vallverdú

1. LTE- DISSEMINATION IES Josep Vallverdú Gemma Llovera & Francesc Solans LTE Palermo, 22nd-24th October 2008

2. What’s dissemination? “the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate” . (www.thefreedictionary.com)

3. For us dissemination must answer these 4 questions

4. WHAT? divide the “whole product” in parts

5. WHOM? find who can be interested in each part

6. HOW? Design an individual dissemination strategy

7. WHY? Find out the goal of each dissemination, the aim

9. How a Comenius 3 networkworks in Catalonia

11. Fields of interest

12. WHAT: LTE NETWORK. • WHOM: • EducationalDepartment of Catalonia. • HOW: • Personal meeting: • Educationalstaff • Schoolheadmistress • Teachersinvolved • WHY: • Gettoknowtheproject. • Informthat a Catalanschoolisinvolved in a Comenius 3 network.

13. WHAT: STRESS REDUCED LEARNING • WHOM: • English Department of Education in Catalonia. • Schools and teachers of language • HOW: • Being invited to explain SRL to the responsible of Foreign Languages Department, partner of a project called “Neues lernen” . (Neues Lernen Lingua 2 project, 72097-CP-2-2001)

14. WHAT: STRESS REDUCED LEARNING • WHY: • To improve learning and teaching • To reduce stress to teachers and students • To test a new methodology which aims to: • Enable students to become self-confident, autonomous

15. Howto get teachers involved in SRL • Summary of SRL methodology upload to the net and mailing invitation to join the group in order to: • Get more information • Share ideas, doubts • Put into practice • Mailing list of language teachers involved in projects by the Department. • Personal contact with colleagues and friends

16. Howto get teachers involved in SRL • Summary of SRL methodology upload to the net and mailing invitation to join the group in order to: • Get more information • Share ideas, doubts • Put into practice • Mailing list of language teachers involved in projects by the Department. • Personal contact with colleagues and friends

17. How to keep teachers involved with the survey • Sending e-mails with updated tests • Creating material to carry out some specific tests • Quiz • PWP with images • Glossaries • Translation vocabulary lists • Explanatory texts • Clarifying the content • Summarising the main ideas on each test • Suggesting ways for a better practice

18. WHAT: MULTIMEDIA • WHOM: • LanguageTeachers and schools • HOW: • Seminars. • HOW COULD IT BE DISSEMINATED? • Choosing activities to exemplify the way of working • Using the mailing lists to spread this methodology • Inviting teachers to: • get in depth • practice with the activities • generate more activities • get feedback

19. WHAT: INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD METHODOLOGY • WHOM: • Educational Department of Catalonia. • Local Inspector. • Local community. • HOW: • Barcelona • Personal meeting with the local inspector and the department. (They provided us with 2 IWB) • Design a pattern unit using IWB • Languages (English, Catalan, Spanish, French) • Biology, history, Industrial technology.

20. Our local educational department invited us to disseminate this methodology: • Doing some lectures • On provincial level • On local level. • Training courses: • 2007/08: • IES Josep Vallverdú (20 teachers/60) • 2008/09: • IES Josep Vallverdú (19 teachers/60) • IES La serra (17 teachers/50) • Preparing materials ready to use.

21. Workshops: • Local: • IES Lladonosa (30 teachers/45) • Palermo • Estenfeld (GER) • Including this methodology in LTE-subprojects • Summary of LESET

22. WHY: • To get to know the project. • To promote the potentiality of IWBs in educational field. • To become a pionner school on this technology. • To help improve learning and teaching process by: • Giving extra multimedia tools to learn • Ensuring a better motivation, • Helping critical thinking and creativity • Emphasizing interactivity (teacher/student and student/student)

23. Results

24. DISSEMINATION THROUGH MEDIA.