eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/home
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Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
As citizens of the world, we must address issues we face on a global and local level and embrace our rights and responsibilities to foster the universal virtues of acceptance and understanding to achieve a sustainable development. Needless to say that the current elementary and secondary school curricula are lacking in cultural and global studies and, as a result, students are not being made culturally sensitive or globally aware at school. With this project, we intend to respond to this issue. Inspired by global programmes like Global Youth Service Day, SID 2016, TAG project aims to help young people find inspiration, access information, identify problems, get involved and take action to solve these problems and improve their local communities. It brings together young people (11-15) from Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic and Poland to collaboratively address global and local problems and create positive change. All in all, the project is about enabling participants to develop creative thinking and entrepreneur skills for life.
Develop a sense of social responsibility and awareness of global issues; Develop creative thinking 'thinking outside the box'; Develop entrepreneur skills; Become socially active young people who can work collaboratively with other youth to make a difference towards a more sustainable world; Learn how to collaboratively identify a problem in their community; Design and implement an action-plan intended to improve the issue; Get a better understanding of the world's language and cultural understanding so as to appreciate and respect different beliefs, cultures and backgrounds; Improve communication skills in the foreign languages; Learn how to use apps sensibly and sustainably for their personal and educational development; Create apps to solve a problem of the community.
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
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eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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We collaboratively created an interactive map with videos and photos to introduce to each other our towns and schools that can be accessed on the Twinspace: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/93799
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
Pupils aged 14-15 from different classes and countries 7
It is an interdisciplinary project involving: •English •Mother tongue •Religious Education •ICT •European Studies •Citizenship •Visual Education
The participating schools' local communities: - Sátão, Portugal - Seia, Portugal - Trecenta, Italy - Bojano, Italy - Udine, Italy - Blatna, Czech Republic - Wasilków, Poland.
The Global community • By addressing the sustainable development goals and taking part in global actions like Earth Day, World Day, Global Youth Service day, Environment Day and Human Rights Movements and pledges.
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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T.A.G participants joined efforts to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by embedding SDG principles in TAG project. We included and participated in National and Global campaigns and initiatives within the vision of a Human Rights-based approach and the Paris agreement on climate change.
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
Campaign: “E se fosse eu? Fazer a mochila e partir”/ WHAT’S IN MY BAG?
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The European Club of Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão and members of TAG eTwinning project accepted the challenge thrown down by the Portuguese Ministry of Education to take part in this awareness campaign aimed at sensitizing pupils to the Syrian Refugees crisis and making them feel the hardships of being a refugee. We invited teachers, pupils and school personnel, parents and the local community as well as eTwinning project partners and all eTwinners to join the campaign “E se fosse eu? Fazer a mochila e partir”. The challenge consisted in imagining the following situation: If you had to flee from your country which is at war with only a small bag in which to pack your most valued and needed possessions, what would you fill your bag with? Pupils either brought the bag with the things they chose or a photo of the bag with those things, presented it to the class and explained their choices and registered their ideas as a comment to the photo they published on the Facebook Page.
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
GYSD is the largest service event in the world and the only one dedicated to the contributions that children and youth make 365 days of the year.
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Earth Day Network is a global environmental movement working to protect the planet every day of the year, with tens of thousands of partners across 192 countries
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
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Source: http://www.shsu.edu/centers/project-based-learning/images/PBL-Essential-Elements-Revised20130802.jpg
Children have a strong disposition to explore and discover and this is most often lost along the way through the years of formal education. Teenagers seem reveal weak motivation for school work. In order to ignite pupils’ curiosity and lever their level of motivation we take a project-based approach in this project. This approach is based on the creation of authentic learning environment that enables pupils to interact, question, connect, collaborate, problemsolve, communicate, present the results of their work to a real audience and reflect about what they learn. Pupils grow more conscious and responsible they have the opportunity to choose the topics of their interest and their own learning paths. TAG’s teachers are engaged to unleash their pupils’ creativity and potentials by promoting learning about the real life that extends beyond the classroom to each student’s home, community, nation, and the world. Pupils became active participants in and shapers of their worlds and the world around them by finding solutions to social and environmental issues.
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
STAGE 5 Act (March/April/ May) - Editing action plans and registering them on GYSD webpage “Map it out” - Implementing community action plans; - Keeping a record of the actiona (video recording, Photography, learning diary, etc…).
STAGE 4 Collaborate (March) - Sharing experiences and knowledge on the issues identified and giving each other’s suggestions to improve their action plan; - Collaborative creation of an interactive timeline of TAG actions; - Celebrating Women’s Day, Earth Day and Global Youth Service Day and take part in global campaigns together like The Blue Ribbon Campaign, “E se Fosse eu: levar a Mochila e partir/ What’s in my bag?”, Safer Internet Day, Celebrating Diversity.
STAGE 6 Reflect and disseminate results (May/ June/July) - Evaluating the project’s impact; -Telling the world about TAG project experience and results through social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GYSD, Project Blog, the Twinspace’s public pages) and in Conferences.
STAGE 3 Find an idea and plan an action (January /February) - Describing the problem clearly for all the teams on Wikispace; - Collaborative generation of ideas to address the problems identified by the teams.
13 STAGE 1Be inspired to change the world (November /December) -Collaborative brainstorming “what is a hero” and online debate on Voicethread; - Choosing inspiring hero(es) and doing research; - Taking part in the celebration of the Human Rights Day (10th December); - Letter Writing Marathon.
STAGE 2 Get informed (January) - Identifying global issues that matter to them; - Doing research and collecting information on those issue(s) , using Five Ws and H data finding technique (Who, Why, What, When, Where and How); - Interviewing the mayor or other local authorities to know about local problems that need solution; - Choosing a local problem pupils wish to solve.
Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão
eTwinning project “Teens’ Actions for Good” (T.A.G)_ 2015/2016
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Organised and edited by Maria Piedade Carvalho Silva, Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão