The document discusses the eTwinning program, which connects over 147,000 teachers across Europe through online collaboration. It provides benefits for both students and teachers, allowing them to work on partnership projects together across borders. For students, it improves language skills like English, develops digital skills, and fosters intercultural understanding. For teachers, it enables professional development through workshops and conferences, as well as opportunities to share resources and lessons plans online with other European educators. Overall, eTwinning promotes modern, technology-enabled forms of international educational cooperation.

1. The Magic of eTwinning
eTwinning -
the modern form of cooperation between teachers
and students from Europe

2. Svetlana Varbanova
Teodora Valova
еТwinning-ambassadors, Bulgaria

3. Some examples of working at the National level
based on Herzberg's Motivation Theory

4. The Herzberg's Theory
Some opportunities for combinations
between motivation factors and ‘hygiene’ factors
Cases:
1. High motivation, high care / it is a perfect
case /.
2. High care, low motivation / it occurs in
mercenaries /
3. High motivation, poor hygiene.
4. Low motivation, poor hygiene.
This 3rd combination could also be observed
in Bulgaria.

5. The eTwinning programme
 Provides opportunities for cooperation
between teachers and students from various
European countries and the implementation
of partnership projects in global network
 Combines 147,000 teachers from Europe in
3453 active projects
 Implemented in the platform in 24 languages

7. The school of my Mom and Dad

8. The mothern school

9. The eTwinning programme
 It exists since 2005
 It is a sub-program of the "Comenius“
 It was created to meet the educational
challenge of the 21st century
 It consistent with the European Reference
Framework (KEY COMPETENCES FOR LIFELONG
LEARNING)
 It is with a focus on the Digital Competence

10. eTwinning is a preferred modern form
of school partnership
It means:
 Easy and quick alternative
 Working without any bureaucracy
 Freedom to choice methods
 Attractiveness to students and teachers
 Its instruments are the "new" media
 Form of eLearning, one of the names for ICT
in education

11. eTwinning is a form of modern
communicaton
 It is a platform that "speaks" the language of
young people from the beginning of the 21st
century
 It responds to the perceptions of adolescents
about modern communication, as an
encouraging work in the global network
 It is a social network
 Young permanent are moving in the social
networking / Facebook, Twitter, Netlog /

12. The benefits for students
Educational:
 Different and unconventional ways to absorb
information
 Mastering ICT - Tools and programs
 Encourage the learning of English as a
modern language for communication + other
languages ​/ special awards /
 Enriching and extending the active vocabulary
 Independence of the student

13.  Students communicate in authentic situations
despite insufficient language skills
 Young people get quick feedback from their
partners
 It increases self-esteem and confidence in
own abilities

14. Communicative skills:
 Ability for teamwork
 Developing a variety of ways to communicate
and tolerance towards people who speak
different languages ​and have different culture
 Work and cooperation in a protected private
space

15.  Students grow up to be "Citizens of the
world" – globalists
 Equal partnership -
students aligned with those of advanced
countries in the European Union

16. The benefits for teachers
 Self-education and self-learning - Autonomy
 Offers much opportunity for training and
career development
 Diversity in the classrooms and teaching
 Opportunities for intercultural communication
 Collaboration with colleagues from European
educational institutions
 Create your own "drawer" with didactic
materials
 Practical opportunity to work with ICT - Tools
and programs
 Wear self-esteem - / awards /

17. eTwinning Quality Labels

23. Mobility
 Professional Development Workshops –
 European Workshops
 Annual conferences
 Camps - international youth camps
 Virtual partnerships grew in real

25. Annual conferences

26. Awards for students – Camps
International youth camps

27. 5 reasons to be in eTwinning
 Offers many innovative ways of working, the teacher
"speaks" the language of young
 Increases the activity of students and motivate them
 Guarantee the authenticity of materials and autonomy
of learners - a new path towards knowledge
 Allows teachers to participate in professional
development workshops and annual conferences
 Satisfaction and confidence that you are "modern"
man, not a BBC )))

29. Through eTwinning platform:
 Improve your language and digital skills and
those of your students!
 Range your lessons, work and units!
 Use the possibilities of online training
programme in Bulgaria and abroad!

30. Thank you for your attention!