On the 31st of May Pirita kindergarten held a seminar for Tallinn kindergarten colleagues (24 people) to introduce our Erasmus+ projects results.
In Pirita kindergarten just finished two national projects. First was Erasmus+ cooperation project "See - Our Nature!" with Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia and Cyprus kindergartens. Project objective was to give the children broad knowledge of nature education through outdoor education and observing nature. We wanted to make a connection child-nature through motivated learning and in the same time increase teachers professional skills.
During the project we dealt with 6 themes - Health and well-being, Our Sea, Our Forest, Animals In Our Nature, Nature Protection and Our Climate. With each theme the partners made activities with children which can be seen in our blog (https://erasmusseeournature.blogspot.com/) and the best were chosen for the activity book, which is ready also. With each theme we also had a meeting with partners, unfortunately most of them virtual but the last one physical In Croatia.
We also had one more activity, each partner chose a place in nature to photograph through two school years, so that children could observe nature and seasonal changes. We made videos and picturebooks from them.
The other project was for staff mobility to increase teachers professional growth. 3 teachers were in Portugal to take part of course "European sharing views - Making sense of the world though multimedia". During the course the teachers got new knowledge how to make good videos. It was done through interesting tasks and visiting national cultural treasures.
The directors assistant in the field of education and 1 teacher went to a course in Iceland"Project based learning in the classroom, Iceland". They got knowledge what are the 21st century skills that the children need and how they implement project based learning in Iceland schools. In addition they got to visit two kindergartens and different local attraction.
In the seminar we shared our experiences with international projects, how to start, what we have done, what our institution got from it and showed the results.
Additional value for the seminar gave presentation by Birgit Peterson, who works for HARNO and is specialist for Erasmus+ cooperational projects. And also came from Tallinn Educational Department budget specialist Riina Svarpstinš to explain Tallinn VPA database.
We thank all the teachers and directors who took part from the seminar! And big thank you for the presenters!
Helina Aaboja
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