3.5. Mokymasis ir vertinimas

„RESCUR. Skrodimas per bangas“ (angl. „RESCUR Surfing the Waves“) buvo trejus metus trukęs mokymosi visą gyvenimą programos „Comenius“ projektas, per kurį tarpkultūriškai ir tarptautiškai bendradarbiaujant buvo parengta ankstyvajame ir pradiniame ugdyme Europoje taikytina atsparumo ugdymo programa.

Interaktyvios grupės – viena iš sėkmingų mokymo iniciatyvų, nustatytų įgyvendinant mokslinių tyrimų projektą INCLUD-ED. Vykstant projektui INCLUD-ED buvo nagrinėjamos švietimo strategijos, kuriomis padedama panaikinti nelygybę ir skatinama socialinė sanglauda, taip pat strategijos, kurios lemia socialinę atskirtį; ypatingas dėmesys skirtas pažeidžiamoms ir marginalizuotoms grupėms. Interaktyvių grupių metodas taikomas įvairiomis sąlygomis siekiant pagerinti vaikų ir jaunuolių mokymą. Taikant šį metodą klasės mokiniai suskirstomi į nedideles mišrias grupes ir kiekvienai iš jų padeda suaugęs asmuo. Kiekvieną grupę sudaro 4–5 mokiniai; šios grupės yra mišrios gebėjimų lygio, lyties, kultūros, kalbos ir etninės kilmės požiūriu. Šis pavyzdys padeda suprasti interaktyvių grupių esmę ir šio metodo taikymo rezultatus.

ProsocialLearn is creating fun educational games for children to learn social and emotional well-being skills. By working together, teachers and game developers are creating new learning opportunities for inclusive education. The project wants to create a prosocial game development and distribution platform in order to distribute prosocial digital games from game companies to the educational sector and work with communities of teachers in Europe to evaluate their approach. Digital games can be tailored to teach the benefits of cooperation, as well as the ability to recognise the emotions of others and express trustworthiness – prosocial skills – helping children to appreciate team-work, recognise the value of understanding other people’s needs and achieve academically.
The games are targeted in particular at children at risk of social exclusion, who find it difficult to show empathy, and include hidden indicators that measure the development of a child’s skills. ProsocialLearn also developed a platform where teachers can track their pupils’ progress and plan lessons that incorporate the games.

The school has been developing innovative practices of informal learning for six years (since 2011). The main aims of these innovative approaches were to improve the educational level of pupils and school performance, to promote their social competences and sensitivity to the surrounding community and to enhance cooperation between teachers. As the first step of the informal learning approach, the school aimed to create informal learning environments by renovating the school yard and make it suitable for the learning purposes. As a second step, the school designed various learning approaches connected to the yard and broader school community (e.g., focusing on environmental education, natural sciences, reading). In this process the school cooperated with external stakeholders (scientists, artists, craftworkers, museums, etc.).