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I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Quality Label

My School - Sec / 3 Martinho Árias – Soure - was awarded the Quality Label in an eTwinning Project.
For those who don’t know, “the eTwinning action is an initiative of the European Commission that aims to encourage European schools to collaborateg using Information and Communication Technologies;(ICT) by providing the necessary infrastructure (online tools, services, support). Therefore, teachers registered in the eTwinning action are enabled to form partnerships and develop collaborative, pedagogical school projects in any subject area with the sole requirements to employ ICT to develop their project and collaborate with teachers from other European countries (at least two teachers from two different European countries are needed). The primary workspace for the eTwinning action, is the eTwinning Portal (www.etwinning.net) and it is available in twenty-three languages. Teachers registered in the eTwinning action, also called; eTwinners find each other, communicate, share resources and collaborate through the eTwinning platform. This growing and active community enforced the change in the motto of eTwinning from "School partnerships in Europe" to "The community for schools in Europe"
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETwinning)

Our project "Feel The Forest and Keep Your School Green" involved students, teachers and schools in Portugal, France, Italy, Poland, Turkey and Bulgaria and took place in the school year 2012/2013.
Many thanks to all teachers, students and adults learners who, one way or the other, have made their contributions to this successful project. Thanks also to the eTwinning NSS for the recognition.

5 comments:

LN said...

Wow, congratulations! :) Keep up the good work!

cristina said...

Congratulations! I'm sure this is only the 1st one - you are going to get more awards for the following eTwinning projects.
I'm so happy!
All the best for the new projects

Sonia said...

It's important to be gratified. Congratulations!!

Ester Cabral said...

Congratulations, Alexandra!
You really deserve all the success in the world.

Alexandra Duarte said...

Thank you all for your support. It gives me even more encouragement for future projects as this was just my first.

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