Hosted by OSOS , contributed by Meie van Laar on 8 March 2021
Het project 'The world goes on' leert studenten meer over de wereld en laat hen de verschillen en vergelijkingen tussen landen en met hun eigen land zien.
Studenten gaan op een ondernemende manier de wereld verkennen. Ze kiezen een land, verdiepen hun gekozen land en verwante gekozen thema's zoals gezondheidszorg en onderwijs. Studenten vergelijken de landenresultaten met hun eigen land en dit geeft meer inzicht in de reden waarom situaties in andere landen anders kunnen zijn. Wanneer studentengroepen hun land hebben bestudeerd, presenteren ze hun werk aan andere studenten, docenten en mensen van buitenaf. Nadien krijgen ze de opdracht om alle informatie in een film te verwerken. De vorm van de film kan worden gekozen op basis van de interesses van studenten, dus het kan een documentaire, talkshow of toneelstuk zijn. De films worden gepresenteerd tijdens een filmfestival dat alle geïnteresseerde partijen uitnodigt. Studenten zorgen voor de organisatie van het filmfestival, dus regelen ze ook de drankjes en landspecifieke hapjes voor het publiek.
Gedurende het hele project zullen externe mensen studenten ondersteunen via workshops over wereldwijde continenten, evenals workshops over het maken van films en het organiseren van een evenement. Het doel van dit project is om de ondernemersvaardigheden van studenten te ontwikkelen, evenals hun 21st century skills. Dit project geeft studenten ook de mogelijkheid om in de praktijk te leren.
ORGANISATIE:
European School Heads Association
ESHA Herenstraat 35
3512 KB Utrecht, Nederland
http://www.esha.org/
CONTACTPERSOON:
Suzanne de Kroon
suzannedekroon@gmail.com
Gevoel
At the end of the project, students have:
1. More knowledge of other continents and countries
2. More knowledge of the themes that are relevant in the chosen country
3. Learned more about who they are and what they are good at
4. Learned how they can use the learned from point 3 positively during a collaboration with others.
5. Learned how a project can be managed and which tools they can use for it
7. Learned how they come into contact with other people than classmates and teachers.
8. Learned to be more critical of the information they have found, for example, on the web
9. Developed more ICT skills
10. Learned to give a personal touch to the project, for example, through the choice of the film
11. Learned how to organize an event.
12. Learned how they can present their project.
13. Convinced others to choose their movie as the best film of the evening.
Resources needed
- Good relationships with organizations, entrepreneurs, experts and charities. They can contribute to the project in various ways, such as real life projects, workshops and giving feedback.
- Money to organize such a Film Festival. It is, for example, necessary for buying ingredients for the snacks.
Time for teachers:
- 20 hours during the preparation phase
- One to two hours a week during the project and the whole project days.
The get more value:
- make a connection with the school
- Possibility to integrate the project with other subjects
- Possibility to involve students from other years with organizing the project. This is interesting, because they also can learn from the project and they often have interesting inputs, so the project can better connect to the needs of students.
The project gets more value if it is connected to as many people and organizations as possible, but also with other subjects and with the involvement of other years (teachers / students). Students of other/higher classes can organize this project.
Available partnerships
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People who can tell about other countries/continents |
External people will support students through workshops in which continents are presented, as well as workshops about making a film and organizing an event.
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Experts producing a film |
External people will support students through workshops producing making a film. |
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Experts in organizing an event |
External people will support students through workshops about organizing an event. It also can be students from higher education. |
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People from outside the school |
They will be a jury during the students’ presentation and will judge the quality of the found information about the chosen country and themes. |
Voorstellen
In this phase students choose a specific country and a topic that they want to focus on.
Task #1
Students choose in groups a specific country and a topic they want to focus on, such as health care, education etc. (e.g.: healthcare system in Poland)
Task #2
Students try to find out everything about their topic. They can use all resources they want: internet, information from embasies, interviews, videos, documentaries etc.
Some questions to focus on:
1. How has this country arranged this (legislation, in practice, how are people who execute it trained, etc.)
2. How has my own country arranged this?
3. What are the differences?
Task # 3
The main question during this task is to discuss and explain the differences. Students may take into account history, economics, geographical factors, culture, influence of surrounding countries, language, politics etc.
Based on these factors they will try to explain the differences between te countries.
Task #4
Students agree on the way they are going to present the information in a video. They can make the video on their own conditions, and they cab me something that interests them (a documentary, an interview, a talkshow, a gameshow etc.)
Aanmaken
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Optional program project day 1
08.30 - 09.00 Briefing to inform project teachers about the project – An office at school
09.00 - 09.30 Central start with all classes – Auditorium
With the project The World goes on, students get to know more about the world in an enterprising way. Classes start the project with a central opening and they do a quiz with all classes against each other. All continents are divided among all participating classes and the winning classes during the quiz are the first to choose a continent.
09.40 - 10.15 Classroom start- Classrooms
Start of the project in classrooms: presentation of the project goals and time schedules.
10.15 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 11.20 Workshops about continents by experts – Classrooms
The class will receive a workshop from someone who knows a lot about the won continent of the class (because of his/her roots or because he/she lived abroad for a while. The continent expert talks about his experiences of that specific continent, but also about facts, history and habits of the people
11.20 - 12.10 Each group choose a country and two themes – Classrooms
Students have become inspired by the workshops. They make groups of 4 to 5 students, based on the country they want to investigate or based on different talents of students. Each group make a choice for one country and two themes they want to investigate. The themes are meant to do more in-depth research and to make a comparison with their own country easier.
Different themes can be chosen, but examples are:
12.10 - 12.40 Break
12.40 - 14.20 Students register at the office of the world ambassador
Official registration of the groups at the world ambassador office. All groups must make a final choice as to which country and themes they are investigating. They also indicate what their talents are and what role every student in the group has.
12.40 - 14.20 Collect information about country and theme -
Students collect information about their country and themes by using the internet, library and so on. They can also do an interview with someone who knows a lot about their country. The found information is the basis for the presentation in the afternoon.
Each group presents five minutes and therein the following occurs: 1. The group and roles, 2. Information about the country and themes and 3. the source list used.
14.20 - 15.10 Presentation groups – Classrooms
Each class receives a jury consisting of people from outside. They judge the students’ presentations and give feedback. |
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Optional program project day 2
The second project day students learn how they can produce a film and they are supported by film workshops. Then students make a film where the found information from the first project day comes back. Note: each group can make a film, but if this is too time-consuming, then the class can also make one film together. The final films will be presented at the Film Award Evening and the best films receive an award.
08.30 - 09.00 Briefing to inform project teachers about the project – An office at school
09.00 - 09.15 Central start – Auditorium
This can be done, for example, in a fictional talk show in the center of the Auditorium, where a few students discuss about the countries that they have investigated: what did they learn, what are the comparisons and differences between this country and their own country?
09.15 - 10.15 Film workshops given by an expert on each specific field in the film business – Classrooms
Each group divides itself over the given film workshops and preferably the students follow the workshop they are most interested in.
Examples of workshops: Writer – Writing a movie script Presenter – Presenting a movie as a presenter Cameraman / woman - Filming a movie (with smartphone / tablet) Director – Editing a Film
10.15 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 12.10 Students start with producing their own film. The films can be designed in different ways – Classrooms
Examples are: 1. Feature film 2. Documentary 3. Role play 4. Music clip 5. Quiz 6. Talk show 7. Video log
12.40 - 14.20 Students start with the production of the final film if they want to make one film per class - Classrooms
14.20 - 16.30 Continue with the production of the films and preparation of the Film Festival
16.30 - 17.00 Preparing Film Award Evening - Auditorium / Theater
Students prepare the film festival themselves, because then they also learn how to organize an event. They prepare the auditorium by, for example, preparing a large screen and changing the set-up. Students also prepare country-specific snacks for the guests and they prepare the presentation of their own film. Students also dress up for the evening.
17.00 - 17.15 Students receive the guests for the Film Award Evening. These can be parents, brothers and sisters, teachers, neighbors, but also other students - Auditorium / Theater
17.15 - 18.00 Opening Film Festival and Dinner - Auditorium / Theater
Each film is supported by a description of the film and a film poster. Students convince the guests to vote on their film during the dinner.
18.00 - 19.00 Premiere films and Awards - Auditorium / Theater After dinner, the best films are shown on a large screen (cinema situation). After watching the films, guests digitally vote for their favorite film, most original film and most impressive film. Then the film awards are handed out to the groups that won a prize. |