Welcome to the Comenius Project

We have created a new communication channel that will go beyond the classroom. With this new tool we would like to make comments, to suggest news, videos or images that might be interesting subjects to work on: we will link news sites, written documents and visual documents that will allow us to analyze our Project "making a world of difference”. The meeting at Albert Einstein Schule (Germany) in late October was the starting point of our multilateral Project. The objective: reclycling and ecological awareness in our schools and a culture of change in our own communities. We welcome the participating schools: Wath Comprensive School (Rotherham), Albert Einstein Schule (Bochum) and Col·legi Pare Manyanet (Barcelona). Good luck with the Comenius Project!

Welcome to the blog of the Comenius Project

Welcome to the website of the Comenius Project, dedicated to exchanging ideas to solve environmental problems. On October 28 we met in Bochum various students and teachers from colleges participating in this project: Pare Manyanet (Barcelona), (Wath) and Albert Einstein Schule (Bochum). In this first meeting, we exchanged ideas, and made a logo and a manifesto for the project. The meeting was very interesting and entertaining, and concluded with the presentation of this logo and the ideas we wanted to do (manifesto). Thanks to this we could enjoy meeting with students from other countries, share the same ideas and work on the same project. I hope that these next two years we can reach the goal of this project. Good job everyone!

Ariadna González and Angel Valls (Pare Manyanet)

Wath Pre-Evaluation Questionnaire Results

Students from Wath expect to get out of the project:

• Further understanding of schools abroad
• Become more aware of our local area and start to make a difference
• Share ideas with our partner schools
• More recycling
• Help for the environment
• Reduce our carbon footprint

Students from Wath hope to get ideas and knowledge about:

• Recycling
• Trash
• Opinions from students in different countries
• Carbon footprint in other countries
• How to preserve the environment
• How other countries recycle

Students from Wath want to acquire strategies to help them to:

• Recycle more
• Preserve the environment
• Reduce our carbon footprint
• Encourage others to look after the environment by recycling more

On average, teachers from Wath thought that the most important reasons for taking part in Comenius are:

1. To enjoy the Comenius experience.
2. Bring an international dimension into the school/classroom.
3. To experience the feeling of being together with colleagues from different member states of Europe and share experiences.
4. To solve problems relevant to work in the classroom and get an update of new ideas on education.
5. To find out what other colleagues think about their practice applications in teaching.
6. To find practical ideas and tools to help me to do my work better in the classroom
7. To sit back and learn something.

Albert Einstein School Pre-Evaluation Questionnaire Results

Students from Albert Einstein School expect to get out of the project:

• Improve environment
• Learn about ecology and recycling
• Change of personal behaviour
• Other people’s opinions
• Exchange information
• Meet new people
• Go to different countries
• More information for people
• Raise awareness
• Less pollution
• Practical ideas how to reduce global warming

Students from Albert Einstein School hope to get ideas and knowledge about:

• Create strategies for schools to reduce CO₂ and waste
• Exchange and share ideas
• The world’s environment situation
• Nature
• The energy we have and how we use it
• New strategies to help me and school in the future
• How to work better in a group

Students from Albert Einstein School want to acquire strategies to help them to:

• Interact with other countries
• Save the environment
• Raise awareness about global warming

On average, teachers from Albert Einstein School thought that the most important reasons for taking part in Comenius are:

1. Bring an international dimension into the school/classroom.
2. To enjoy the Comenius experience.
3. To experience the feeling of being together with colleagues from different member states of Europe and share experiences.
4. To solve problems relevant to work in the classroom and get an update of new ideas on education.
5. To find out what other colleagues think about their practice applications in teaching.
6. To sit back and learn something.
7. To find practical ideas and tools to help me to do my work better in the classroom.

Pare Manyanet Pre-Evaluation Questionnaire Results

Students from Pare Manyanet expect to get out of the project:

• Improve knowledge and English
• Learn about ecology and recycling
• Team work with other countries
• Exchange information
• Meet new people
• Go to different countries

Students from Pare Manyanet hope to get ideas and knowledge about:

• Ecology and our environment
• How to solve ecological problems
• How to make the world less polluted
• Why recycling is a good idea
• How to recycle correctly
• New strategies to help me and school in the future
• Learn new languages
• Team work

Students from Pare Manyanet want to acquire strategies to help them to:

• Ways not to waste water
• Solve ecological problems
• Become a scientist
• Recycle better
• Work better
• Improve concentration and discipline

On average, teachers from Pare Manyanet thought that the most important reasons for taking part in Comenius are:

1. To experience the feeling of being together with colleagues from different member states of Europe and share experiences.
2. To find out what other colleagues think about their practice applications in teaching.
3. Bring an international dimension into the school/classroom
4. To find practical ideas and tools to help me to do my work better in the classroom.
5. To solve problems relevant to work in the classroom and get an update of new ideas on education.
6. To find practical ideas and tools to help me to do my work better in the classroom
7. To sit back and learn something.