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It’s time to Pilot and Validate!
Insights from the Second Teach Europe Workshop in the Future Classroom Lab.
The last week of February 2024, we hosted the second training workshop of the Teach Europe project in the Future Classroom Lab. During this workshop, our 12-member teacher taskforce, which you met last year through their interviews, delved deeper into the project’s objectives, one of which is to implement and pilot their learning scenarios.
Over the past months, our task force has diligently developed their learning scenarios, engaging in a cycle of feedback exchange and classroom testing. To honour their dedication and progress, but also to familiarise the rest of the team with all the learning scenarios, we dedicated the first day of our workshop showcasing their achievements through presentations to their peers and explaining their thoughts behind the creation of their scenarios.
After the presentations finished, teachers derived that all the learning scenarios highlighted all the fields that the European Union supports and protects, like technology, education, culture, and sciences. This enabled us to initiate another discussion on why it is important to teach our students for and about Europe!
The second day of the training started with a warm welcome activity, which energised the teachers and prepared them for the agenda of the day. During the second day, the workshop focused on the piloting methodology and the validation process, which are the most important steps of the next phase of the Teach Europe project. After the teachers gained more insights on the validation and the piloting processes, they took part in a short activity, where they created their own guidelines concerning the steps of implementing a learning scenario in the classroom.
Co-creation is an important aspect of the Teach Europe trainings, and in that way teachers, with experience on the field of education, can provide their feedback and their thoughts on educational practices and procedures. This process of co-creation was also followed during the next part of the day, when teachers provided their thoughts and feedback on the development of what we called “Feedback of the implementation form”.
The third and final day found the taskforce and the trainers visiting the European Parliament! Participating in diverse activities allows new ideas, more sources of inspiration or even questioning. After the guided tour in the Parliament, and the Parlamentarium, the 12 teachers initiate a discussion regarding the importance of the participation of the young people to the European Elections. After this interesting and fruitful morning, the teachers and the trainers discussed on the next steps of the project, and the expected outcomes.
But what will happen next?
The 12 teachers, members of the taskforce, will implement in their classroom at least 2 learning scenarios that were developed by their peers, and after the implementation they will provide feedback through the implementation feedback forms. Along with the 12 teachers, some other teachers, volunteered to also test those learning scenarios and evaluate their impact on their students’ understanding about Europe, and all the opportunities that the European Union offers to its citizens and especially young people and students!
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