2019 January – Kick-Off Meeting in Malta

Report

The kick-off Meeting in Malta was a huge success where all parties from the four partner countries – Malta, Portugal, Italy and Slovenia met and discussed our Erasmus+ Project.

• This project has elements which simultaneously serve visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning for our students.
• Through coding and robotics we’ll be reinforcing subject matter expertise.
• Moreover we’ll also encourage critical thinking, teamwork and communication skills, all of which are key to surviving in today’s world.
• Through coding and robotics, the teachers can capture and keep students’ attention much better than lectures and other classroom activities.
• This project involves elements which generates enthusiastic student participation and generating Intrinsic Motivation to Learn.
• Our teachers will help students emerge as leaders and allow them to seek out constructive ways to leverage their peer authority to improve classroom dynamics.
• Coding and robotics move students past knowledge and comprehension into the application and evaluation levels.
• In-class ‘games’ are a great way to explore the principles and theory behind game design.
• Linear and non-linear gameplay will serve as a practical, hand-on demonstration of the logic principles required to program computers, a skill young people can begin learning at any age.
• Our students, through coding and robotics, can set and accomplish goals, solve problems, communicate effectively, think outside the box and eventually be courageous and confident as they make their way into adulthood.

We want our teachers to be forward- thinking teachers and be able to combine kinetic learning, spatial reasoning, critical thinking and teamwork into a format which kids love. Teaching and learning will take a new level in our school through this project.

Meeting and Team Building Activities

• During the whole day meeting, the Principal – Ms Josephine Mifsud, the EO – Mr Jeffrey Zammit, the Project Manager & Assistant Head – Ms Dorita Maniscalco and also the teachers and LSEs involved came and gave their opinions about the project.
• The partners involved went around SNC Rabat Primary school to talk to all the teachers and get feedback which we were happy to see was very positive indeed.
• Dinners were organised where all our partners mingled with our educators.
• Team building activities were organised.
• “Our teachers and LSEs at SNC Rabat Primary were all invited for these activities. Not everyone could come but I am very pleased to say that these activities were a huge success and afterwards, teachers who could not come, asked me to be involved in this project because they can see how organised we are and that both the educators and the students will benefit from it” – Ms Dorita Maniscalco – Project Manger