Good morning everybody,
I hope you all are having a good time here in Spain in this closing event.
I’m going to try to explain in a few minutes what this project has meant to me in these two years time.
I promise to be brief …although I have no options using this presentation, pechakucha style.
Let’s begin in the first term of 2013.
One day Sote phone us to ask if our schools were interested in joining an European project, we all were really happy.
She explained us what the project was about and after having all the information,
my happyness became insecurity as the conceps were new for me and I wasn’t sure about how to transmit to my colleagues at school what it was all about.
Lots of questions went round my head but I have to explain it to my workmates.
When I did it, questions were multiplied and doubts were increasing as time passed.
Finally, we have two powerful reasons to join:
Spanish partners were all fantastic, so we knew that the teams will work for sure.
And… what is life without new adventures and some risk!
LEGO Build to Express has been a great discover. It gives us so many possibilities: we can work creativity, storytelling, feelings, warm-up activities, and different subjects.
I used it with my pupils, but I have also participated in a training course here in the CEP where other colleagues from schools that are not part from CECI project has learnt how to use it.
This make that the impact of our project becomes wider.
The creative platform has also been used with our pupils in different projects. First we began solving problems related to our school and then we use it to solve the problem Cristobal had at the bookshop.
We have also worked with the creative platform in the training course we organised here. We focus on these two tools so teachers, after some theoretical background was explained, used them to solve problems from IES San Juan de Dios.
Teacher provided different prototypes as possible solutions.
During these two years we have also tried to work with some other tools.
First year I joined a group work at school with my colleagues and we were working in the LEGO and the creative platform the whole year.
This school year I joined the group work here in the CEP and we have worked on different tools in order to have more strategies to develop creativity. We have worked on the six thinking hats from Edward de Bono, dialoogle, the learning path, story cubes, design thinking…
Also I would like to talk about the schools we have had the opportunity to visit. I think we have learnt a lot from other teachers, how they manage to use creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in their lessons. The projects you’ve developed has been great. Thanks for sharing them. We have also learnt about your educational system and even your reform!
And finally, I would like to talk about why CECI has been a good project and have had such good results.
I think we have a team that is really amazing. Spanish and Danish teams have worked hard to make the project develops at the highest level.
People has been: cooperative, communicative, efficient, professional, creative, enthuthistic, imaginative, optimistic, positive… with these kind of people, success is easy to get.
Thanks so much for everything!
In the autumn of 2012, I joined a group work in the CEP about creativity
We have been working several creativity techniques. For example, the Six Thinking Hats of Edward de Bono.
Last march, we organized a teachers training about creativity. During two sessions we work on the Creative Platform and the last two sessions we work on Lego Build to Express.
From Blas Infante School and Romero Vargas High School.
What can I do with my old playground? A lot things.
The best idea is to lose the fear of failure and ridicule, AND DARE TO IMAGINE.