We are a private school near Lisbon with proximally 1000 students from 3 to 18 years old. This project begins in 2007 with teacher’s formation to improve educational technologies and pedagogical skills. We begin to use permanent technology in our classrooms with computers, presentations, interactive boards, multimedia pedagogical contents, production off our multimedia materials and pedagogical use of a e-learning platform. Our students from 10 years old already started in this project, in next year students from 7 years old will start use to.
With this project we want to improve students autonomy and more quality in their studies, guided and oriented from our teachers, in constant contact and interact. Using the Dokeos platform our teachers are using the doubts chat, thematic forums, interactive exercises, learning sequences, documents repository, guided workgroups,…
We felt our students must work warder after classes and the best way was guide them form their own teachers and no others. Actually we are satisfied with the positive results. We have more cooperative work, more collaborative work, more group work, more communication between students and their teachers and a little better academic results.
Our starting point was teachers skills to form autonomous teachers with multimedia resources. We have a internal formation department always available and working on that concern.