Ideas

A new idea:

The Great Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition
Different issues of Winnie-books are displayed. Collection of stuff with Winnie-the –Pooh is exhibited t-shirts, mugs, cushions, bags. Children’s poems on friendship are read and illustrated by peers. 100 AKER WOOD – my very own map. Children draw maps after reading the book. Photos taken during Treasure-night are displayed. Winnie-the-Pooh song is sung, some new verses are added. (It is really popular among children in Hungary.) "Teddy bear" introductions: children write introductions in the name of their teddy. Children learn about honey, a beekeeper is invited and honey is tasted.

Interview with Paul Holdsworth "Mobility is the key to enhancing the quality of teaching"

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READING Romania: when teaching them how to improve their reading comprehension, we can use easy activities such as showing them how to look words up in a dictionary, working with simple texts at first to encourage them, to help them gain confidence and to determine them to want to make progres. We can use more visuals to make them grasp the meaning of certain words.The students can be asked to act out the text they have read, in case it is or it contains a dialogue. A drama club in our mother tongue will make them feel more relaxed when reading and trying to understand a text. Sometimes weak students cannot concentrate at all because of the fear they have that the others might laugh at them, so we should try harder to create a warm, relaxed atmosphere and we should make them feel less tense. Team work id helpful

ENGLISH Romania: Drama clubs can be formed as well, both in English and Romanian. There are students who have poor results at school but who are good at acting, telling jokes in a funny way, dancing, singing. There is a girl who writes scripts, easy ones, of course and makes her classmates act in her // plays. // Some of them are very good DJs. Some others are good at delivering a speech in a way that keeps you interested all along. All these hidden skills can be brought to light in this way. We can use interactive sites, for ex British Council has lots of entertaining activities and I already use them with my students. Songs should also be used, we can tech our students the same songs and whem we meet, we make them sing together. ART Romania: glass painting, pottery, modelling, sewin- workshops PE Romania: fencing representations, chess competitions, football and basketball matches where to take part both teachers and students MATHS Pol: a colleague gave a proposal on algebra and fractions Romania: we agree with this proposal, in fact our maths teacher has already had a lesson filmed on this topic ICT Romania: Students will create sites, blogs, wikis, they will create short films on the computer, they will communicate with their partners through the internet Music : Romania. Performances held by our students – some of our students can play the piano, the guitar or other musical instruments. Dear Danuta, these ideas are in no order. only like a mind map. Yours and Julia's ideas are includet because we spoke about via skype. - what talents do the teachers have - asking the pupils what would they like to do - parents can be invited to join different groups - what sportgroups ...... - how can we use the children talents in our lessons - what can they organise on their own (or with a little help from the teachers) The project could start with a logo competition. Every country suggest a logo. We create a song together and all meetings start with singing this. Maybe only one rhyme in different languages. We share this per CD or mail? - write poems in the mothertongue <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">- reading competition in each country <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">- the best reading is recorded and send to the others (we learn more about the sound different languages) <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">-try to learn a few words <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">- dictionary in 7 languages - cooking regional food - setup a web site <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">- using computers to write this (ITC)

- find out something about the other countries and get after we tried to find out, information from the locals. So we can see, what was important for us and how does it see the other nation. Are our tastes different? - work in talent groups and have different meetings to show the talents - when we meet each other we want to show the best ideas - maths competitions -sports festival (every country asks for 2 exercises we all have to do. Who will be the best? - we can build a special website (for example: www. hidden-talents. com) and make join our pupils and teachers and we can share photos, shortly videos, letter and we can write comments about multimedia - pen friendship