2 online Multiplier Event – The Good Nutrients for Schools – Prosocial Values Project

2 online Multiplier Event – The Good Nutrients for Schools

Events Agenda

All the online workshops are open to any participant for any country and totally free

Please register for the selected workshops in order to receive the certificate of participation.

 

16th. September 2020

16.00 CET Time: Spain – Region Castilla & Leon – Agustín Francisco Sigüenza Molina; María A. Blanco; Stefano Cobello

  • Welcome by Stefano Cobello Project coordinator – Italy – Institutional opening of the ProSocial Values Multiplier Events by Agustín Francisco Sigüenza Molina as General Director of Vocational Training, Special Regime and Equity in Education at Consejeria de Educación from the region of Castilla y León (Spain). “Nobody less network: who we are, how to join it”. Created into the ProSocial Values Erasmus+KA201 project the International “Nobody Less” Community, involve educational institutions and stakeholders across Europe, and outside Europe, to adopt prosociality attitude as their daily practices. (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

(Agustín Francisco Sigüenza Molina. General Director at the Directorate General of Vocational Training, Special Regime and Educational Equity that is a principal administrative unit of the Consejería de Educación, which is the Department of Education of the Autonomous Government of Castilla y León. The responsibilities are in the areas of vocational training, Specific Educational Needs and Counselling, and Special Regime teachings)

17.00 CET Time: Poland – ARID Association – Prof. Bożena Majerek, Ph.D. and Maciej Dymacz

  • Innovative tools and approach in school education: How to help teachers to deal with difficult youngsters in the class and what tool can be used. How to help teachers to increase their knowledge in preparation of interesting and high-quality lessons with the utilization of ICT. How to implement innovative methods in the learning system to increase students’ efficiency in reading, writing, and understanding what they learn. (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

(Maciej Dymacz – project manager of the Association ARID, Poland. Maciej Dymacz has experience in project administration. He participated in several national and international training and he was preparing and leading several professional training for different groups of stakeholders. Prof. Bożena Majerek, Ph.D. – Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow)

17th. September 2020

15.00 CET Time: Romania – Association Sinaptica -Pirvu Ionica

  • The revival of old houses: How to keep alive old houses using natural/eco resources. By using traditional materials and techniques, children or teenagers can learn what is the meaning of environmental-friendly buildings or the differences between renewable materials and technologies and the industrial ones. The workshop will give to the teachers hints to implement open-air learning activities, that do not imply high specialized trainers or electrical/mechanical tools, with a high cost-efficiency level (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

(Pirvu Ionica – founding member and executive director of Sinaptica Association. Expert in training and project management, with significant experience in ethnography and traditional buildings)

16.00 CET Time: Turley – Uşak İl Milli Eğitm Müdürlüğü – Fatih Nacar

  • Pros-Social Robotics: How to use robotics to promote prosocial behavior. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

(Fatih Nacar works with robotics and he is an expert using robotics for educational purposes, he is a teacher of information technologies in the center of science and art. At the same time, he has responsibility at the computer and network system of the directory of national education Uşak)

17.00 CET Time: Turkey Uşak İl Milli Eğitm Müdürlüğü – Ass. Prof . Dr. İbrahim Delen

  • Educamigrant project educamigrant.europole.org Ensuring equability in Education for Migrant and Refugee Pupils (EDUCAMIGRANT) Project developed modules for immigrant students and their teachers and try to reduce disparities in the learning environment. In this presentation, we will focus on the importance of contextualization during the project and discuss the need for contextualized STEM learning environments for refugee students. (Output 5 Database of prosocial games)

(Assoc. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Delen works as an associate professor at the Educational Sciences department at Usak University (Turkey). With a continuing interest in teacher education, he has been actively working for finding ways to use various digital tools (mobile applications, social media, web-based systems) for enhancing the quality of science education in various contexts (formal and informal settings).

 

18th. September 2020

16.00 CET Time: Italy – Polo Europeo della Conoscenza – Stefano Cobello and Elena Milli

  • Educate to a future society of solidarity

(Stefano Cobello coordinator of the network of schools “Polo Europeo della Conoscenza”, PhD candidate in sociological in Models of Educational Inclusion of Disables, BA in philology – Russian and English. He has long experience of coordinating networks of schools in European projects, webmaster and expert in intercultural education, trainer of trainers. Elena Milli is a family and relational psychotherapist, collaborator of Polo Europeo della Conoscenza in projects about robotics and special needs education, giftedness, immigrants and refugee students, bullying, and STEM education. She works with children and teenagers with special educational needs or social and behavioral issues, from abusing or disadvantaged contexts and immigrants. She is an expert in educational and prosocial robotics.)

21st. September 2020

14.30 CET Time: India – Podar Organization – Swati Popat

  • Prosocial values impact person and society- laying the foundation in early years.  The early years are when a child learns about self and society. Prosocial values are a foundation of education and in today’s technology-driven world, pro social values play a foundational role in ensuring that children grow up to care, share and nurture their relationships and the world.

Dr. Swati Popat Vats is a global early years educator. With more than three decades of experience, Dr. Vats is presently the President of Podar Education Network with over 495 early years centers in India and two in UAE.
She is President of Early Childhood Association and Association for Primary Education and Research, a non profit in India with over 58,000 members. She coined the term, ‘kuducation’ , to ensure that children receive an education centered around their needs and not that of ‘schoolification’. She has studied the early Childhood approaches of 38 countries and has developed a comparative document of the same. She strongly believes in the work of Froebel, Montessori, Vygotsky and Gijubhai Badheka. She has authored many books for children, parents and teachers. Her latest being a book on coding and prosocial skills, ‘Yash and Yashika learn about coding’, and a book called, ‘My Feelings’.

16.00 CET Time: Lithuania – PRSC – Asta Klydziene and Viktorija Paskeviciene

  • Let’s trigger creativity in everyday classrooms: Our workshop consists of three activities triggering creativity in everyday classrooms. Creativity allows self-discovery, as well as the opportunity to share a hidden side of ourselves. It reduces stress and anxiety. That is why children are more eager to learn through games and fun activities that engage them in sharing their ideas and experiences. While communicating, cooperating, and collaborating children have the possibility to talk about empathy, bullying, and respect. They have a chance to (re)connect with friends and peers or find more confidence in themselves. Eventually, prosocial values are established and strengthened. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

(Asta Klydziene, history teacher – Panevezys district -Velzys gymnasium – Viktorija Paskeviciute English teacher – Panevezys district – Velzys gymnasium)

16.15 CET Time: Lithuania – PRSC – Laura Sinkuniene and Alma Briediene

  • Empowered by Prosocial Values: Our workshop consists of three activities triggering creativity in everyday classrooms. Creativity allows self-discovery, as well as the opportunity to share a hidden side of ourselves. It reduces stress and anxiety. That is why children are more eager to learn through games and fun activities that engage them in sharing their ideas and experiences. While communicating, cooperating and collaborating children have the possibility to talk about empathy, bullying, and respect. They have a chance to (re)connect with friends and peers or find more confidence in themselves. Eventually, prosocial values are established and strengthened. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

(Laura Šinkūnienė librarian – Panevezys district – Naujamiestis gymnasium – Alma Briediene primary school teacher- Panevezys district – Naujamiestis gymnasium)

16.30 CET Time: Lithuania – PRSC – Vaida Siauciune and Klaudija Pelanyte

  • Uneasy discussion with the help of friendly gadgets: Humanity has been dreaming about the coexistence with robots for a long time. Finally, this day has come and nowadays we can hardly imagine our lives without them. But could they be helpful for our educational purposes, especially concerning the improvement of social behavior, or to be more exact, the uneasy topic of bullying? We are sad to announce that according to UNESCO, almost one-third of adolescents around the world have suffered bullying and they admit it was difficult to talk about their sad experiences while they were school children. However, in this workshop, we will present the ideas that could be applied in the classroom to break the ice for uneasy discussions about bullying together with the help of our co-livers – robots. (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

(Vaida Siauciune English teacher – Panevezys district Education Center – Klaudija Pelanytė non-formal education teacher of information technologies – Panevezys robotics center “RoboLabas”)

22nd. September 2020

17.00 CET Time: North Macedonia – Friends for Education – Bojan Vasilev and Vaida Šiaučiūnė

  • Hopscotch: The workshop has been created for primary students to introduce an important domain of bullying and robotic in the classroom. It will seek to give students the knowledge and the skills to enable them to engage their friends with fun gaming activities and robotics before moving to more advanced activities involving the use of block coding languages and robotic devices defined especially for use in the classroom. The focus will be on enjoyable activities and students will experience a gradual progression from simple physical activities aimed at introducing some of the core concepts in bullying, coding, and robotics through engaging problem-solving exercises with real bullying and easy to learn programming languages. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

(Vaida Siauciune the head of Panevezys Robotics Center RoboLabas – the biggest robotics center in Lithuania. Project coordinator and expert for several European and local projects on the topics of robotics and STEAM education. – Bojan Vasilev the president of Friends Of Education. One of the biggest NGOs in North Macedonia with over 500 teachers as members. Project coordinator for this project and others in N.Macedonia. (

18.00 CET Time: North Macedonia – Friends for Education – Darko Taleski and Zorica Trajanoska

  • Deep Diving Into Stories: This workshop will show a different approach to storytelling, by using technology. The hard copy stories through the technology become alive. We will present a story that we have already prepared as an introduction to the workshop. In the main part, the participants will be involved in the “diving” process, i.e. into creating a new story. It means that they will make the storybook alive. The participants will illustrate some parts of the story and using stop motion animation will give life to illustrated drawings. Conclusion: The workshop will show how the students will be engaged through the whole process of storytelling and they are not only passive listeners. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase.

(Zorica Trajanoska English language teacher with 15 years of teaching experience with students from 6 to 14 years old. Driven to engage learners through storytelling. Darko Taleski with more than 15 years of art teaching in public schools. He has experience of teaching socially vulnerable groups of students and students of different ethnicities)

19.00 CET Time: North Macedonia – Friends for Education – Marina Dzeparoska Tanasoska and Elena Apostoloska

  • Playing and exploring Mars: This workshop will show an interesting and funny approach in learning, by using technology and gameplay. As an introductory activity for the workshop, we will present a problem situation that should be solved in the workshop (sharing resources and building a colony on Mars). In the main part of the workshop, the participants using technology will be involved in researching, planning analyzing, and finding solutions as a team. Then using computer games the team will show their Designing Solutions for the problem situation defined at the beginning of the workshop. Conclusion: The workshop will show how the students will be engaged through the whole process of the problem-solving situation and critical thinking through teamwork. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase.

Elena Apostoloska graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Mathematics and Physics studies. Her interests are dedicated to the method of learning by projects, so she finished her master’s studies in 2011 on the Pedagogy Institute, on the study program Management in Education. Since 2001 she has been working as a Maths teacher in the Primary school “Zivko Brajkovski” in Butel, Skopje. Marina Dzeparoska Tanasoska is a graduate professor of informatics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius-Skopje, Macedonia. She finished her master’s studies at the Faculty of Human Resource Management “University of Tourism and Management” Skopje R. N, Macedonia. Works as a teacher in computer science at the primary school “Grigor Prlicev” -Ohrid.)

 

23rd. September 2020

13.30 CET Time: Bulgaria – TRAKIA DIIT University -Iglika Angelova

  • ProSocial Values Teaching and Learning with Lego: The workshop will present serious educational game and storytelling based practices with LEGO Social and Emotions and will be presented by the teachers from Kindergarten and pre-primary school. The seminar session will examine and present the journey of building a network of partners through the eyes of the principal and the headteacher. In practice, the emphasis will be on “Beauty and Goodness” as basic and universal values. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

(Iglika Angelova is a practitioner, researcher and didacticist, with a recognized, non-standard and creative approach to developmental pedagogy. She is an experienced pedagogic specialist and leader in the development and practical school application of educational games and interactive lessons. She works for a quality change in the field of education and training)

17.00 CET Time – Spain – Region Castilla & Leon Region – Antonio Marquez

  • The disabling curriculum: Inclusive school framework involves offering opportunities to all students, understanding diversity as an inherent nature of human beings. An approach to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for developing a curriculum without barriers, accessible and universal. UDL contributes to reflect on the matter that depending on the didactic designs, you are, unconsciously, placing barriers that difficult the learning process and UDL offer strategies in order to transfer our point of view on disability to the curriculum itself, to propose didactic designs that do not disable student (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

(Antonio Márquez is an on service support teacher in the province of Andalucia (Spain), is the author of the blog “If it’s because of the teacher that I never learn”, a title that, in his own words wants to be reactive, pro-active towards inclusión understanding diversity as part of our inner nature and proposing a reflection on how the curriculum approach can influence, enabling or disabling the most vulnerable students.)

24th. September 2020

13.30 CET Time: Bulgaria – TRAKIA DIIT University -Iglika Angelova

  • ProSocial Values Teaching and Learning with Nature: The seminar session presents an interesting form of the internal organization of ProSocial activities (mini-projects), according to the individual needs of the group of children and the preferences of parents and teachers. The seminar will tell about activities that have been implemented during the piloting phase of ProSocial Values, that have involved children and adults in different educational practices for preschools (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

16.00 CET Time – Spain – Region Castilla & Leon Region -David Riuz

  • What I learned from games to boost motivation in the classroom

(David Ruiz, currently a primary school tutor. He is the author of Mr. Ruiz’s Blog, on education, ICT experiences, active methodologies, “smart” presentations, gamification, distance education, formative assessment, all seasoned with a close, critical, and passionate communicative style)

18.00 CET Time – Spain – Region Castilla & Leon Region – Fredi Lajvardi & Dan Frank USA

  • Why The World Needs More Women Engineers

Fredi Lavjardi is a science professor from the United States who captivated the country when he led his team of Hispanic origin teenagers, in an underwater robotics competition, where they beat groups linked to famous universities, including MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His story inspired the documentary Underwater Dreams, adapted into the lead film Spare Parts. Honored with numerous awards for his energetic passion for teaching, Fredi continues to serve as a leading advocate for the importance of STEM education and the importance of bridging the gender gap. Vice President of STEM Initiatives of the “Sí Se Puede” Foundation whose mission is to maximize the potential of each individual by increasing educational equity. (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

Dan Frank is a Lecturer at the Arizona State University, and the Faculty Advisor for Desert WAVE (Women in Autonomous Vehicle Engineering). In addition to working with Desert WAVE, he also is a mentor for two secondary school robotics teams.

25th. September 2020

13.30 CET Time: Bulgaria – TRAKIA DIIT University -Iglika Angelova

  • ProSocial Values Teaching and Learning – Mix and Match: Presentation of piloting activities of ProSocial Values in Kindergarten: the workshop will present innovation about self-organization, self-initiative, self-development, and self-reflection in the schools of the 21st century. The main focus will be on the importance of ProSociality education and the benefits of open social education for children and society. (Output 9 Analysis of the pilot phase)

18.00 CET Italy – Psicodizione – Chiara Comastri

  • When the other person is becoming a resource in a solidarity society: When the person feels closed within himself when brooding does not make him totally free to choose, nor to say, nor to be himself, the other is always the only solution. The other is the way to get back your colors. Dr. Comastri, Psychologist and former stutterer will describe the internal psychological mechanisms of Stuttering, as it is a difficulty that manifests itself in the relationship. She will also describe how the Psychodition methodology, which she herself devised, is functional to get out of the stuttering cage. (output 7 Platform for the prosocial training)

18.30 CET – Portugal – José Nunes – Make it Better – José Nunes

  • Developing an educational community – SparkSEEDs Project

18.30 CET – Portugal – José Nunes – Make it Better – José Nunes

  • Developing an educational community – SparkSEEDs Project

(Josè Nunes president of Make it Better NGO. He has 15 years of experience as a project coordinator in the youth fields. He is graduated in Agronomy and Rural Development and post-grad in Project and Partnership Management. His fields of competences are many: networking management; participative leadership; strategic planning; entrepreneurship promotion. He is a consultant for the High Commission for Migrants and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI – Council of Ministers).