Creativity, technology and social dialogue
Improvement of intercultural and project managing skills
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Welcome to our ErasmusPlus development
The creative process, technology and social dialogue
Our society is rapidly changing around us and our students are facing challenges unknown to us as teachers. We believe that the creative process in conjunction with technology and all the possibilities it holds, is a key component in modern education. We have faith in social dialogue and believe that successful communication skills are crucial.
Project goals
The aim of the project is to continue to enhance our competence as educators and integrate successful methods into our teaching. We aim to give our students the best we can offer and help them develop their own competencies for their future.
The first step is to improve the staff’s intercultural competencies and project management skills. Since the entire staff cannot be trained, individual candidates are selected for the training, who will then continue to educate the rest of their colleagues, and thus pass on the content of seminars and courses and thereby imparting knowledge to a wider audience.
The second step is acquiring a better comprehension on how to use innovation and entrepreneurship thinking with our students.
Project background
The demands on the school have changed. Above all, the regional labour market has also changed into a European labour market. The school must react to such developments. The school not only has to provide students with qualifications and competencies, it also has to prepare pupils for the European labour market with its multitasking. In order to change the students, the staff members have to change first. New approaches to teaching and learning are required. Intercultural competencies and the staff’s project management skills need to be significantly improved. Intercultural competencies and interdisciplinary competencies concerning specific subjects are now the key competencies and thus an integral necessity for a school to become more open to Europe. The qualification of our graduates is often needed when working for companies, which are present in many European countries, in the catering certainly also worldwide.
The acquisition of these required competencies is possible through intercultural and project management training courses. It is important that teachers from one school attend the courses together with teachers from other countries, so that the intercultural learning can take place not only during the official seminar activities, but throughout the whole week as well. It is expected that contact details will be exchanged and the participants can and will keep in touch even after the end of these courses. Thus, potential project partners could be found, which is one of our main objectives and which could help us to plan student exchanges, e-twinning or job-shadowing activities.
The team
Astrid Hafsteinsdóttir
Textile Arts teacher
Astrid holds a B.Ed in teaching with special emphasis on textiles and has taught for over 25 years. She has also experience in being a class teacher and has been responsible for the whole class. While being a class teacher she taught most of her students subjects, ranging from the Icelandic language to biology. Astrid also has experience in teaching students with special educational needs (SEN). She has been diligent in seeking added education to enhance her competence as a teacher. In recent years she has shifted her focus to sustainability in education and has been developing textile projects from recycled material. In her teaching she has built her projects on the creative process.
Anna Maria Þórhallsdóttir
General teacher and class manager
Anna María holds a B.A degree in anthropology and a masters degree in teaching and teaches mainly social studies. She did her masters thesis on a cross-cultural project at a local school. That interested her in cross-cultural projects and the possibilities they have. Anna María has had an interest in other cultures from an early age. She had a variety of pen pals which spiked her interest in other countries and their heritage. She has also lived abroad and spent a year in Colombia, South America. There she got to know a very different culture than she knew. Because of that stay she went on to study anthropology. Her passion is on the social aspect of learning.
Sandra Rebekka Önnudóttir Arnarsdottir
Visual arts teacher
Sandra Rebekka is an educated art teacher and holds a double degree in teaching and fine arts. She also holds a masters degree in education for students with special needs (SEN- students). Her research project focuses on using digital portfolios to meet the different needs if students and to support students meta-cognition. Her main interest is on integrating arts in other subjects and using technology as a tool for integration. She firmly believes that the creative process is relevant in all subject areas and a key for competence in todays society. As well as teaching in Giljaskóla, Sandra also teaches at the local arts school on the collage level as well as teaching a course in arts, technology and teaching at the University. Her husband is polish and her children are bilungual which has peaked her interest in multi-cultural societies and how arts are a language that everyone can speach, regardless of their nationality or ability.
Sigrún Magnúsdóttir
General techer
Sigrún is an educated teacher and teaches, among other thing, social studies. She holds a B.A in modern studies and a masters degree in teaching. She experience in teaching all subject taught at the elementary and secondary level since she worked at a small school situated in a small island north of the arctic circle. During this tenancy she drew on her own experience as a pupil in a small school in a rural fishing village. Today she teaches grades 8 to 10 and has good experience teaching and communicating teenagers. She is interested in the well being of her students and focuses on mindfulness and exercise in her classes. Her main focus is on social studies and healthy communication among teenagers and would like to work with communication across cultures.
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