EPALE celebrates
World Teachers’ Day
5 October 2016
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With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union
ON THE AGENDA
11.05 h: 'Adult education for the 21st century‘
12.00 h: Video Live&Learn project
12.15 h: Belgian coordinators for the European Agenda for Adult Learning
13.00 h: Lunch
14.00 h: Video Live&Learn project
EPALE as a learning tool, Wilhelm Vukovich
The Big Learning Week, Ghislain De Bondt
The flipped classroom, Gaëlle Boulet
15.00 h: Speeddating to share 21st century proof good practices
15.45 h: Celebration and goodbye drink
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The Big
Learning Week
Ghislain De Bondt
The BIG project week
Centrum voor Basiseducatie ‘Leerpunt’ Zuid-Oost-Vlaanderen
Hi I’m Ghislain and I work
at a great school
Center for Basic Education ZOVL
healthy, be assertive, ….
Adult education specific for lower
skilled adults - Mission = increase
literacy skills
Top course = learning Dutch for
foreign language speakers (70%)
Courses are built around keys skills
Maths - reading&writing Dutch - ICT general subjects: theoretical drivers’
license, how to cope with stress, live
+/- 2300 adult students/yr in our
region - staff = +/- 65
+/- 40.000 students in Flanders (and
Brussels) in sector Basic Education
with +/- 1000 staff
Before we dive into the main subject ...
….. brief history lesson
The origin of the Centers of Basic Education: volunteers - the 60ties
In 1990 we were added to the Education field - we became teachers
Parental Advisory: this is rather
exaggerated !!!
After 25 years a lot is changed - we now have curricula - we deliver certificates …. more formally education
Every approach has his qualities but ….
Teach what you want
No evaluation
No curricula
...
Curricula
Certificats
Modularisation courses
...
...it’s all about blending the best of both ‘worlds’
We strongly
felt the need
for a new
andragogical
project
More initiatives that bring natives
and immigrants together
Our team wants more focus on
innovation and creativity
Facilitate ways to encourage
students to show their talents
More competence driven learning in
authentic learning tasks
Less formal teaching methods
Bringing teachers from different
domains together
Important
Guiding
Principles
How can we stimulate
this?
BIG project
week!
Let’s start with a
So we started to brainstorm in a workgroup
And we made choices with our teachers
The team wants a very BIG … BIG project
week!
We dismiss all courses during one week
Conclusions about
our approach
All teachers hold workshops ‘as much as they
can’ and -if they could- in allocation with
students
We choose to work around a common subject
Every lunchtime students can stay and eat
something what is cooked in one of the
workshops
Every student can subscribe for every
workshop
2014
90 workshops on 6 locations - subject: leisure
Google Drive: promo-presentations en subscribe
lists
Example subscription list Aalst
Administration: consult verification
Team logistic
Wow !!!
Teacher: I felt like I was back at the boyscouts
This is learning in a very fun way
Evaluation
Some students were a lot different than
during the ‘normal’ courses
It’s nice to see natives and immigrants
work together and have real contact
Administration: it was hell
But … let’s do this again !!!
2015
Subject: arts&culture (in town)
Even more workshops
Promo-presentation Aalst
New way of administration
ticketing system
No lunch (much
more activities outside the
school)
End activity
2016
BIG …. BIG changes
It was a success again … but this version ...
NO subject: it’s all about gaining new impressions
NO administration please … attendance lists for activities during normal schedule
Thursday we all went out and visit something together (per location), so more than 400 students went out on a
school trip
BUT ...we started this academic year in september with 4 groups of project-based learning for an
experiment of one year.
→ Four teachers organise projects with students about different subjects. It’s the teacher who ensures that all
competencies (like maths, languages, social skills, …) are covered. 4 groups/total of appr. 40-50 students
First project = start to gardening!
So …
step by step
we are heading to
more experience
driven and projectbased learning
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With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union