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Section 2: Define what you want to achieve

It is important to have a clear idea from the outset of what you aim to achieve and what your outcomes will be.

You may, of course, have a very general aim of developing the international dimension within teaching and learning, or you may have further aims which cover the development of language skills, learning skills, creativity, and establishing a new model of learning and teaching.

A project lends itself to all of these aims and more besides. You must prioritise but remember that even the simplest of projects, if successful, will often achieve far more than you anticipated.

Pupils, when allowed to be creative, with adequate support, will also be original, and energetic in bringing new approaches to tasks. They will learn how to research, and collect information, how to make judgements about what is more or less valuable and they will learn how to work with others.

Teachers, when allowing pupils freedom, albeit within a structured framework, will observe how pupils start to learn differently and how the teacher-pupil relationship changes, the teacher often becoming more of a facilitator and guide than instructor.

Think about each question below before going to the Project Notepad where you can make very brief notes before committing ideas to the project page on eLanguages.

Aims and outcomes

Objectives

  • What do you hope to achieve in terms of the international dimension to your project? E.g.: developing awareness and understanding of the lives of others.
  • Do you hope to develop language skills? Which ones?
  • Do you hope to develop learning skills as pupils collaborate, research, and use software and hardware creatively?
  • Do you hope to explore new ways of teaching and learning as the traditional roles of teachers and pupils evolve during the project?

Outcomes

  • What do you want as a concrete outcome?
  • Will pupils produce presentations, reports, posters, newsletters, brochures, games, interactive materials, slideshows, and web pages?
  • multimedia items, such as podcasts or video, or a slideshow with digital photos, voice recording and music?
  • Will pupils’ work in the target language or will there be a blend of mother tongue and target language?

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