Etwinning

AIMS (Alternatives for Innovative Math Study)

Project title: AIMS (Alternatives for Innovative Math Study)

Project coordinator: Valentina Cuadrado Marcos

School: IES Alonso de Madrigal (Castile and León)

Age category: from 12 to 15 years

Spain is in charge of creating a DVD which will form part of a Teachers’ kit or guide, which will include a selection of the activities considered most useful for each type of intelligence from the point of view of the results and the methodology. This material is published in the blog.

Academic and social relations also improve among the participants as three years of the Bilingual Area are involved, emphasizing the value of the CLIL methodology. Last but not least, participating in the project enriches the school and brings it visibility.

The materials produced for the kit of end products, the Teachers’ Guide with its DVD, published in the blog with others which can be seen in the TS can be adapted for use in other schools. Moreover as they are also uploaded to the EST portal they offer a more generalized use.

Personal recognition

In the professional context, the recognition of the work carried out in the AIMS project with this 2015 National Prize is extremely important for me, especially in the year in which eTwinning celebrates its 10th birthday.

I have been working in eTwinning since it began and, as I mentioned on another occasion, the change which it brought to my career as a teacher was totally successful as it supported my search for new methodologies. 

Given that AIMS is a mathematics project, it has also meant a great challenge for me as an English teacher. I have only managed to overcome these difficulties thanks to the collaborative work of all my fellow teachers and the students at the IES Alonso de Madrigal school and the teachers from the other partner schools, especially the Comenius coordinator Irina Vasilescu.

Our school has won several national prizes and one European one which I am very proud of. However, this 2015 National Prize has special value for me as I have won it in the year in which I will end my career as a teacher.

Thank you very much for your support and the opportunities you have offered.

Source of the images: project TwinSpace and blog.