School to School partnership – How to plan an excellent project

Aims & objectives

On the basis of analysis made by NA officers it occurred that schools submitting applications to Erasmus+ Programme often present low awareness of preparing coherent proposals in terms of needs analysis, formulating goals, activities, results, dissemination and adequacy to Erasmus+ priorities. In addition, it turned out that special schools do not take part in the Erasmus + Programme, hence the idea to invite their representatives to take part in this training.

Responding to this diagnosis a goal of the event was to develop teachers’ and headmasters’ competences of planning and implementing educational projects based on international cooperation in the areas of:

• inner logic of the project (need analysis, setting goals, activities and results),
• quality of international partnership,
• quality of LTTAs,
• dissemination and sustainability of project results.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

There were 27 participants from 18 countries (Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Italy, Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Macedonia, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, UK, Finland, Hungary, Malta and Sweden), mostly English teachers, special education teachers and headmasters. All of the participants represented special schools or institutions working with special schools.

Training methods used & main activities

Presentation, simulation games, tasks in the small groups, quizes, role playing games.

Outcomes of the activity

5 proposals of the international school projects.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Full time traininer

I worked on this training for 4 days as a full time trainer.

Testimonial of the reference person

I confirm the references for Anna Krzeszowska-Hovanecz.
I work with Anna regularly in the TCA trainings she conducts for teachers, principals, schools, educational experts. The cooperation is always very good. Anna is a competent, matter-of-fact and committed trainer. She has extensive experience in working with different target groups on a wide range of topics, which contributes to the high quality of the solutions she offers.
Agnieszka Fijałkowska