young learners LLP-LDV-TOI-07-BG-166013 1
Project Information Title: Project Number: Project Type: Year: 2007 Status: Marketing Text: Summary: Dinocrocs Travel to the Balkans transfer of innovative methodology for teaching young learners LLP-LDV-TOI-07-BG-166013 Transfer of Innovation completed Transfer of Innovative Methodology for Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners aged 3-6. It is not necessary to know the foreign language you are going to teach! Are you interested? Innovative Methodology for pre-school and primary school teachers and teacher - trainers of BG, RO and TK, children and their parents. Innovative language teaching approach called narrative format developed in the previous EC Socrates Lingua Projects The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus and The Dinocrocs grow up, by the University of Roma La Sapienza, successfully implemented in IT, UK, FR, ES and DE transferred to Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. The core of the DinoTour project transfer are a series of trainings for pre-school-teachers and teacher- trainers in the new methodology. Now available in Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey! Description: The DINOTOUR project aimed at motivating nursery and pre-school teachers to acquire new vocational skills necessary to teach languages, the innovative aspect being the methodology itself and the fact that in this methodology the teacher is not required to have much previous foreign language knowledge; the effective training of the teachers that are now able to teach FL children in the kindergarten using the narrative fomat and its basic elements: new methodology innovation, the subject of the transfer, principle of bilingualism as described by prof. Teaschner, using the linguistic progression, class activities, the Magic T-shirt, acting out, and having for homework 'watching TV', are the basic elements which the 'magic teachers' step on. In this way, the basic vocabulary of a new language is introduced, children and parents are familiarized with the idea of learning a FL on the principle of bilingualism while children are still young. In order to inspire in children the desire to learn the new language modern media are used: broadcasting, through TV channels and Internet, the educational language cartoon series Hocus and Lotus, a further new element for motivation and for giving exposure to the teaching/learning of languages.the principle of good communication has been kept, which leads to loving the teacher; intersubjectivity and turn taking of conversation also taking place. Thus motivation to speak starts. And in this way the project fulfilled priority 2 from the Call for Proposals 2007 continuous training of teachers and trainers, and transfer new methods for teaching languages to children as young as three, thus facilitating in the implementation of the innovative practices. Themes: Sectors: Product Types: Product information: *** Intercultural learning *** ICT *** Lifelong learning *** Vocational guidance *** Language training *** Continuous training ** Access for disadvantaged *** Education others teaching material program or curricula website Set of materials: The Magic Teacher theory book, pages: 238 format:20x12cm in Bulgarian, Romanian 2
Project Information and Turkish. The Magic Teacher theory book is a methodological tool for the instruction of languages to young children provided as palnned, including pedagogy to support the long-life learning process as a whole, accompanied by the proper ICT-based educational environment DVD and the VHS series. The Magic Teacher s kit level 1 guide pages 64 plus 3 pages of cover, total 67 pages. Format 21x29,7cm album with instruction in BG, RO and TK,and availability to study the three languages which were added to the originally existing EN, IT, DE, FR, SP. This book adapts the innovative model into the training systems of pre-school education of BG, RO and TK, according to the national educational requirements and integrates them in a tangible resource book, where the different cultural and social linguistic contexts of the targeted countries are expressed in the content of the formats. This book was distributed to all trainees and interested parties in the project, thus DinoTour project integrating the Roman model for training the pre-school teachers in VOLL in the targeted countries educational systems via the pilot schools at first, applying the developed on the basis of CLIL innovation and using it immediately into practice. Projecthomepage: www.dinotour.eu 3
Project Contractor EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES CONSULT LTD Sofia 1729 Sofia Stolitsa SME - small and medium-sized enterprise (up to 250 employees) http://www.epc.com Contact Person Address: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Caroline Palchovska No: 30, 'k.rakovski' St., h.k. MLADOST 1A Sofia 00359 2 9745771 00359 2 974 5771 epc@abv.bg http://www.epc.com 4
Coordinator EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES CONSULT LTD Sofia 1729 Sofia Stolitsa SME - small and medium-sized enterprise (up to 250 employees) http://www.epc.com Contact Person Address: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Caroline Palchovska No: 30, 'k.rakovski' St., h.k. MLADOST 1A Sofia 00359 2 9745771 00359 2 974 5771 epc@abv.bg http://www.epc.com 5
Partner Partner 1 EuroEd Foundation Iasi Nord Est RO-Romania continuing training institution http://euroed.ro Partner 2 Euroinform Ltd Sofia Sofia Stolitsa SME - small and medium-sized enterprise (up to 250 employees) http://www.euroinformbg.com Partner 3 Dinocrocs International Training Institute Roma Centro IT-Italy SME - small and medium-sized enterprise (up to 250 employees) http://www.hocus-lotus.com Partner 4 Fethiye Training Centre Fethiye Antalya TR-Turkey National Agency http://www.fethiyetourismcollege.com 6
Partner Partner 5 EUROSTANDART COLLEGE Sofia Sofia Stolitsa others http://www.eurostandard.com 7
Products 1 2 3 Magic Teacher's Book in Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish languages Methodology Book for Nursery and Primary School Teachers in BUL, RUM, TUR TRAINERS AND TEACHERS, TRAINED IN THE NARRATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING FOREIGN 8
Product 'Magic Teacher's Book in Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish languages' Title: Magic Teacher's Book in Bulgarian, Romanian and Turkish languages Product Type: teaching material Marketing Text: Are you a Magic Teacher? Do you know how to become one? Description: The Magic Teacher theory book - pages: 238 format:20x12cm. The translations in BG, RO and TK Target group: Pre-school teachers and trainers, foreign language teachers and trainers. Result: New teaching and training method for pre-school and primary school teachers and trainers. The new training model developed in response to the needs of the teachers and the methodological requirements of the teaching model of how to put theoretical concepts into practice, methodological and linguistic learning of teachers and children, teaching strategies, based on human process of language acquisition and bilinguism and on analysis of the school conditions that must exist in the school. Area of application: The didactic methodology covers the following topics: 1. the conception of the teacher training and the teaching models; 2. the development and production of the materials necessary for implementation of the programme in schools; 3. the training of teachers; 4. The scientific verification of the teaching method with small children in school; 5. the evaluation of the success of the model and the materials in terms of the their language acquisition results; 6. the diffusion through the education system at Italian and European levels. www.dinotour.eu Product Languages: Bulgarian &prd=1 9
Product 'Methodology Book for Nursery and Primary School Teachers in BUL, RUM, TUR' Title: Methodology Book for Nursery and Primary School Teachers in BUL, RUM, TUR Product Type: material for open learning Marketing Text: What to say when you see a DINOCROC! Description: The Magic Teacher s kit level 1 guide pages 64 plus 3 pages of cover, total 67 pages. Format 21x29,7cm album into BG, RO and TK, added to IT, EN, FR, DE, SP. Available in 7 languages. Target group: Pre-school teachers and trainers, children, parents. Result: The training model explained and shown in the guide book provides teachers with the tools to put what they ve learnt into immediate action: strategies for language teaching and the educational materials. The strategies are new, from pretending not to understand the child's mother tongue to the use of a magic T-shirt to enter the fantastic world of Hocus and Lotus where adventures are lived out in the foreign language; from using characters with whom the children can easily identify, to using of stories "in chapters" with a narrative thread connecting one story to another and in which all the children impersonate with Area of application: Teaching foreign languages to young learners. Product Languages: Bulgarian &prd=2 10
Product 'TRAINERS AND TEACHERS, TRAINED IN THE NARRATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS' Title: TRAINERS AND TEACHERS, TRAINED IN THE NARRATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS Product Type: others Marketing Text: All pre-school teachers trained are now 'magic teachers'. If you want to become one of them go to our web site. Description: The didactic methodology repeted the original one as follows - transferred topics: 1. the conception of the teacher training and the teaching models; 2. the development and production of the materials necessary for implementation of the programme in schools; 3. the training of teachers; 4. The scientific verification of the teaching method with small children in school; 5. the evaluation of the success of the model and the materials in terms of the their language acquisition results; 6. the diffusion through the education system at Italian and European levels. Target group: Pre-school teachers and trainers. Foreign language teachers. Result: The training of the pre-school and primary school teachers from Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey on three levels: giving teachers a theoretical and practical training and developing their awareness of their own teaching style. The theory is founded on ideas about human processes of language acquisition and bilingualism and on the analysis of the conditions that must exist in the school environment to promote learning. Area of application: The training model provides teachers with the tools to put what they ve learnt into immediate action: strategies for language teaching and the educational materials. The strategies are new, from pretending not to understand the child's mother tongue to the use of a magic T- shirt to enter the fantastic world of Hocus and Lotus where adventures are lived out in the foreign language; from using characters with whom the children can easily identify, to using of stories "in chapters" with a narrative thread connecting one story to another and in which all the children impersonate with. www.dinotour.eu Product Languages: English &prd=3 11
Events AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN THE SOFIA UNIVERSITY 'KLIMENT OHRIDSKI' Date 14.09.2009 Description Topic: COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION AND NEW METHODS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place Teaching staff from The Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Education and the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, foreign guests from Iasi university and the University of Rome 'LaSapienza' working in the field of teaching FL and pre-school education Event is open to the public Contact Address 1574 Sofia, 69A Shipchenski Prohod Blvd Sofia University "St Kliment Ohridski" Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Education Ekaterina Sofronieva, Pre-school Education (For International conference of FPPE, FCMP and EPC 2009) Tel. (+359 2) 9706218 E-mail: Ekaterina Sofronieva: sofpress@vmail.bol.bg Karolina Palchovska: epc@abv.bg 9.00 hrs, Hall 1 14 September, 2009, Sofia 12