Results

European project on pre-school education

Project Start Date: 01-12-2019

Project Total Duration: 30 months
. Due to the COVID-19 crisis the project duration will be extended for 5 months.

Project End Date: 31-10-2022

Project intellectual outputs

Intellectual output 1Compendium of good practices in teaching socio emotional competences in early childhood education and care – ECEC (age 0-6)

Activities:

Both the last two activities will have a section related to the identification of practical challenges and recommendations.

Intellectual output 2BE-CHILD Educational toolkit for early childhood education educators

Design and develop the educational toolkit for early childhood educators. Moreover, in order to support teachers/educators to implement this toolkit the project will also provide guidelines.

The toolkit includes existing good practices and, experimental and practical tools and edutainment activities with the specific aim to develop the adequate socio emotional competences – in relation to equality and diversity as well as to meet a smooth transition to primary school – in the two main age range: from 0 to 3 years and from 3 to 6 years old.

The toolkit will be composed by good practices, tools, learning and playful activities (indoor and outdoor) already adopted by teachers/educators in kindergarten and pre-primary schools in their respective countries, also available online as OERs.

Activities:

Learning activities for educators

Short-term mobility (3 days) for educators from the Partners countries.
Pre-school Educators (2/pre-school) from the project Partner countries will be involved in a short-term learning activity.

During the learning activities educators – adequately selected – will be required to be engaged in:

  • short training activity (2 days)
  • validation activity (1 day)
  • creation of short pedagogical videos (during the 3 days)

Schedule of the learning activity

According to a rotation system, the Italian and Estonian kindergartens will host educators from pre-schools of the other partner countries.
Educators will be invited to take part to the learning activity that will last a total of 3 days. Moreover, it will be structured in two main parts: fontal classes (2 days) and experimental activity (1 day).

Learning activity results

Recording and creating pedagogical videos

From DAY1 to DAY3: the hosting pre-school will be in charge to record videos during both the training sessions as well as the testing activity for educators.
The final result will be the creation of a summative emotional-pedagogical video (1/country) summarizing the key moments of the learning activity, such as:

  • instruments, tools and didactic and playful activities illustrated in day 1
  • impact and benefits of the usage of the different instruments, tools, learning
  • suggestions and improvements from primary school teachers regarding the socio emotional competences early childhood educators has to develop in their children

The summative video will be afterwards integrated on the pedagogical learning environment developed within intellectual output 3 in order to be easily used by the other pre-schools of the consortium as teaching material.