2nd TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING, LEVICE, 4 - 7 SEPTEMBER 2018
Second Transnational Project Meeting - 4 - 7 September 2018, Levice Slovakia.
• Teachers discuss the launch of the Junior companies, exchange ideas and give advice to colleagues
• Teachers are instructed about what they have to heed in the course of accompanying the junior forms and get training from experienced teachers in basic accounting, taxation, wage calculation, etc
• Exchange of information about Junior Company fairs on a national and an international level
• Pretesting and testing for Chapter 8 LCCI (Human resources) is compiled for the third short term training event
• Presentation techniques are discussed and a list of advice is compiled what students should heed
• A list of advice for teachers and students in junior companies is compiled from the experience gained so far to help and improve the running of the junior companies
• The possibility of further cooperation is dicussed – concerning the formation of a joint venture in the following school year
• Necessary information is given on what to heed when winding up the companies at the end of the year
• LCCI examinations are discussed – who will do it, how many students will go in for it, preparations for exams
• Discussion about forming a teachers´ group on eTwinning to spread results even further
• Dissemination activities are discussed and a plan is made for dissemination
• Media coverage is evaluated and collected
• Planning of an internal junior achievement fair during the third short term taining event
Outcomes:
• Information sheet about Junior Achievement and planned activities
• List of Junior achievement fairs nationally and internationally
• List of advice for accompanying a junior firm
• List of advice: How to present more effectively
• Information sheet about how to set up a junior achievement joint venture
• Pretesting and testing material for the third training event
• Dissemination plan
The Second Transnational Project Meeting was held in Levice, Slovakia between 3rd and 7th September 2018. The purpose of the meeting was to summarize the project progress, plan the activities which will be done between the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting and 3rd Short Training Event in České Budějovice and set up the programme for the 3rd STE. The topic for Business English will be Human Resources. We planned pretesting and testing which will consist of 20 questions on specimen lessons. New JA companies will be presented there, and Christmas will be the topic for transcultural exchange.
In the course of the project meeting we exchanged the information about the project progress in its three pillars. 6 schools have already had JA companies, they had been working properly and most of them closed their activities at the end of the school year 2017/2018, they wrote annual reports and got certificates for participation in JA programme. This is according to regulations of the JA organization that requires closing down a JA company after one school year.
According to the application form creation of a JA company was stipulated only for the second project year. However, most schools already managed to start one in the first year, only Slovenia was not part of JA scheme but they applied at Slovenian national JA organization to be part of it.
Regarding Business English competences students had specimen Business English lessons – Travel topic in 1st Short-term Training Event and Advertisement in 2nd STE, they had some Business English classes on other topics from the textbook “Market Leader – Intermediate” at their schools. We discussed the possibility of going for LCCI (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry) exam. The transnational competences were successfully implemented in the project, students have learned about the cultural and national stereotypes of involved countries and many of the students are in contact mostly via social media – Facebook page and eTwinning platform.
We discussed about the dissemination of the project, which has been done by all schools by means of articles in teacher and pedagogical press, presentations of the project at teachers and parents´ meetings, Open Days.
We concluded the meeting with an evaluation session of the work done during the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting.
To heat up in our project and remember what has been done we played a game on Kahoot and had a lot of fun with VET4SCAPE:) https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/f0aaa62f-fe54-47b0-9c21-155b6460b7ca
Zuzana Mészárosová presented progress of the project since 2nd Short-term Training Event in Barreiro
Teachers during hard work have had the opportunity to learn about Slovakia, its traditions, visit the historical castle in Levice, Tekovian museum, the centre of the town of Levice. The educational trip led the teachers to a historical mine town Banská Štiavnica with picturesque buildings and beautiful places, which are part of UNESCO heritage, they also visited Počúvadlo lake. Teachers experienced tasty Slovak quizine and hospitality of their hosts.
Levice sightseeing Educational trip to Banská Štiavnica and Počúvadlo lake
Evaluation questionnaire
The participants of the project meeting are kindly asked to fill in the questionnaire at:
https://goo.gl/forms/I6rHYjiOfEsw5DcL2
The questionnaire was answered by all the teachers who took part in the Ljubljana Transnational Event - 14 teachers from Slovenia, Austria, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Portugal and Romania.
