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From the moment we find the teacher mentor survey as an important tool for our work, it is a great idea to share the idea with colleagues and discuss over it as well as cover all subject areas.

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"What works? What must be changed?" are the questions that a teacher has to make to himself every day.

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As primary teacher I totally agree with Caroline: technology is the best way to vary our lessons, to keep them interesting and up to date, to let students actively partecipate to the lessons without boring them.

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There should be more teachers like her.

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I agree, ITC can help a cross-curricular project. One goal can be always to develop digital skills for our students. And that is anot opportunity. Regarding the discussion with colleagues about concepts in survey, it is not our practice, buc can be helpful.

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Yes I think it is important to have certain digital literacy to be able to help students achieve cross curricular projects. Therefore as a teacher always need to improve, especially in terms of technology.

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As a teacher I need to get the competences to teach my students. Sp I need to know how to get improvements. så I can surely use the learnermentor. but again I need to have some dialouge with my coleges and I need to see the resulst after each "change" .. so it is a kind of a circle.

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I use cross curricular aproaches when it comes about projects.

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I think it would be very important and interesting to discuss the concepts in the survey of The Teacher Mentor with some of my colleagues.

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In my work, I use cross curricular approach all the time. Sometimes we do it in a form of a project and
sometimes we don’t. Because of my leck of confidence, we haven’t been using technology much but this is going to change.

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Yes I am convinced by my experience that ICT make cross curricular work more feasable and easier , They facilitate communication and sharing even at distance .Of course those who is able to use ICT is more creative and develops initiatives because they have more chance to choose, All this is necessary in the real world, All subject area should have a Mentor to check how well or badly they are doing their job.Finally It would be fruitful to speak with colleagues about the Teacher Mentor and together reflect on the results, unfortunatly this happens very rarely in my school and I regret it.

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One of the most commonly cited reasons for using ICTs in the classroom has been to better prepare the current generation of students for a workplace where ICTs, particularly computers, the Internet and related technologies, are becoming more and more ubiquitous. Technological literacy, or the ability to use ICTs effectively and efficiently, is thus seen as representing a competitive edge in an increasingly globalizing job market.

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A very interesting video! Caroline has raised an important point; to be diverse and, the same time, critical users of technology. I also expect that the Teacher Mentor will help me to understand what i'm good at and what improvements i can make to my own practices and skills.

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I agree ... everyday teachers should try to reflect on their own skills in order to improve their teaching methods.

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realy helpful assessment tool

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I really enjoyed the testimony of Caroline, thank you. I agree with it and I think essential reflect with our colleagues, but sometimes we have so many things to do that we need more time to reflect together. Students would benefit from this and so do we!

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Caroline is right about the use og new tecnologies in education and the use of teacher mentor, which will help students and teachers both.I want to learn more about it.

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Many thanks to Caroline for sharing her experience. She reflects perfectly my thought, I believe that ICT can be very good both for curricular project, but above all with cross-curricular projects where materials have to be exchanged among various teachers.

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I believe it is very important to know how to reflect on our work. It is motivating and very unseful. I found her report very interesting.

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Many thanks to Gro Caroline for sharing her experinece. Somewhere along the video she says that after taking the survey, she had to discuss some of the concepts with her colleagues in the next day. That is what I think we miss here in Portugal. After taking the survey myself, I feel maybe I didn't interpreted right some of the concepts and could really use a discuss to talk about it.

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What impressed me mostly in Gro's considerations is when she talks about how technology helps her vary her teaching. This is the first reason I am trying to improve my competence in this field.

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I watch the video and must say that I agree with Caroline on this point of view. It is very useful to discuss the thing you need to know colleagues views. As a teacher I also use ICT in my lessons, because students  need to introduce it from early age. Then everything is on its way.

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I think that these kinds of tools can be developed for different areas to give teachers opportunity to evaluate themselves and have an idea about their weaknesses and sthrengths. By this way, they can compensate for their weak parts. discussing certain concepts can also be helpful since everyone has a different point of view which meaans that you have chance to learn different things from your collegue as well. different ideas can broaden your horizon.

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Many thanks to  Gro Caroline, for her experience's sharing.

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I absolutely agree with Caroline, it is very useful to discuss with colleagues.

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I am quite sure, as she is, that the Teacher Mentor survey can give teachers ideas and motivate them to keep working, and that similar surveys should be developed for all subject areas. But, I am not sure that the school climate is like that to encourage such surveys among the colleagues.

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Reflect on their work, on their skills and abilities is important. The introduction of ICT offers the opportunity to try new ways of teaching.We must, however, have the tools. Caroline says to spend only 30 minutes and you have the elements of reflection about her teaching practice. This is encouraging!

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I totally agree with Gro and I am glad to hear that you think it is important to introduce ICT as early as possible. THe younger the students are the easier it is for us teachers to work cross -curricular. It is possible in all ages but the older the students the more the teachers need to collaborate in bigger groups in order to get it done, which in my opinion is a good thing. Collaborating and sharing is an important feature when working in all the ages and using ICT both between the teachers and among the students is necessary.

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If you are keeping up the time and having PD you often don't need a mentor.

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I believe that the use of ICT is the only efficient way for engaging students in cross-curriculum projects. This statement has a clear theoretical base for me, because till now I have never participated in a such project. I'm planning to participate in one soon and gain the necessary experience about it.

Any survey like the Teacher Mentor one, to my opinion can become a guiding force for teachers. Since it presents our strong points and weaknesses and provides advice on how to move forward and enhance our competencies, it fuels our will to become better on the use of ICT in our classrooms.
Collaboration with colleagues is necessary, to my opinion. Not only you can get feedback on a project or matter you are interested in, but you can become the means that will transfer to them knowledge and the will to work even more collaboratively. Emulation is a good force and can lead to a better teaching and learning environment in our schools.

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Obviously, regular use of technology makes us more concious of our situation in front of the new technologies.

Apparently the use of mentor has been useful for see as well so we should have ago!

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Hi Gro Caroline :)

What works and what we have to change!!! Collaboration, sharing and beeing creative...I agree

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I found very interesting the experience of this teacher but I have to say that I would not know how to replicate the experience in a secondary school 13-18 years old pupils.

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ICT is very useful in cross curricular projects.

I agree that the Teacher Mentro project should be extended to all subject areas.

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Yes, I agree. In 9th Grade in Denmark, we have the Project assignment, which is a cross-curricular problem-based discussion project with pupil-made products and presentation.

The Project Assignment is an example of a cross-curricular project, where ICT is necessary by using log/blog for the teacher/pupil communication, for pupil groups to interact, communicate, discuss and even produce or plan their presentation.

As a teacher, I think surveys like Teacher Mentor is absolutely necessary - in ICT as well as other areas of teaching, e.g. pupils and/or teachers well-being.

I would love to share my experiences with my colleagues, as I believe, I learn more about myself in the discussion - even by just saying it out loud (or writing it like here)

This danish website is about the Project Assignment:

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Redskaber og ressourcer til at gennemføre projektopgaven med dine elever.

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The Mentorat is a new concept in Romania. So, I would like to see how it's working at every level. But yes, using ICT to work an cross-curricular project is very useful for both, students and teachers as well.

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ICT tools can make and do make the learning procedure more interesting.

As for Mentor, I am curious and I will give it a try.

Finally, discussing with colleagues can bring up and make many thing clear. Brainstorming is always better than one brain.

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Yes it is useful to discuss certain concepts with colleagues at school.

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ICT is very useful in cross curricular projects. Nevertheless, it's not always that easy to put it into practice. Inadequate time is the major obstacle.

I definetely agree that the Teacher Mentro project should be extended to all subject areas.

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It´s always usefull to discuss and maybe nessesary to discuss with colleagues.

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Before I started working in lower secondary school, teaching all subjects, I used to work much more cross-curricular projects but not as much now. But I try to link my math to every day life as math is every where and also to programming.

It would be nice to work more with other teachers but it need time for cooperation.

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I have never tried it on cross-curricular projects, the only occasions that could be said in a cross-curricular way could be exchanging practices in etwinning to learn more about the other countries' culture and customs and then always using the ICT and with a beneficial output. Teacher Mentor have given me an idea of where I am and where I should go and it is a useful way to enhance my teaching of course, although I am a bit pessimistic of its use together with my colleagues.

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This testimonial refocuses the whole discussion, about the use of Teacher Mentor, on peer assessment. The tool's accuracy in defining levels of proficiency may be helpful not only to individual teaching work, but also useful to peer work. After establishing and comparing skill levels, teachers may allow themselves to define common plans of improvement, monitored through peer assessment.

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ICT should be used in transversal projects developed in the classroom. For example, through the solar system theme (in environmental studies) students, in groups, can perform research on a planet of the solar system and build a digital book that after prepared is presented to the entire class. The  Teacher Mentor is a useful tool that helps the teacher to re-evaluate their practice and gives useful tips to improve their pedagogical use of ICT. It is important to discuss with colleagues the different tools that can be used to enhance the practice of teachers.

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Like Isabel, I also teach to kindergarten children. i am curious what competences they have for our level.

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I was impressed with Caroline's experience Teacher Mentor . First of all she persuaded me to use it. In cross-curricular projects and in the subject that I teach I use a lot ICT . It helps me very much . It makes my lesson interesting for my students and influence them giving motives to search for the teaching aspect.

As for my colleagues I think that is very useful to discuss with them but the problem is that they must be open to innovation and new technology , to the use of digital devices at school Otherwise it would be difficult to get a profit of this conversation

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I'm so eager to try it.

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Thank you Caroline. I'm a Kindergarten teacher and my class is a mix of kids from 3 to 6 years old and I also commit myself t ICT. Your statement helps me to never give up even when the enviromnent isn't easy!!!

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Discussing with colleagues is always useful! Cross curricular projects leave more space for the use of ICT. Our students make presentations, researches etc...

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I used ICT in cross-curricular projects to make posters, newsletters, websites. Of course Teacher mentor would be helpful to be available for other subjects. I used to talk to some colleagues about the difficulties in school.

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As for the usefulness of ICT to work on cross curricular projects, I clearly agree with Gro Caroline, it's great! And I also agree on the need of such tools for other subjects as it's very useful to have an objective overview of our practices, and even more important, have real tips on where and how wehave to work to make things better. Hopefully we'll be more and more to spread the idea, and we'll finally construct things so as to have them in a close future available to everyone

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Very helpful aspects are mentioned by Gro Caroline. Totally agree when it is mentioned that we have to be competent users in order to be able to influence our students to use technology. It is, for sure, very useful to reflect on ones practice but also to share that reflection with peers.

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I work as well as teachers ICT trainer, I guide them to use ICT in school everyday life.

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Thank you Caroline for sharing your experience, in particular when you advice us to use technology critically, always thinking about self assessment and about what works and what must be changed. I agree also that a Teacher Mentor similar tool should be adapted to other subjects.

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In these last two years I have been working as pedagogical ICT trainer and I have had the chance to share ideas and esperiences with colleagues not only from my school but also from other educational contexts.

I think that working together on cross-curricular projects (for example, eTwinning projects) is one of the best ways of putting theory into practice.

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I only use ICT occasionally to better illustrate concepts of maths or do huge calculations. I'm starting to think that the teacher's team should share the responsibility of planning lessons about correct use of digital resources and communication.

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I completely agree with Gro Caroline's statement that in order to teach others you have to be a competent technology usef yourself.

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I do believe myself that using ICT in projects makes it even more interesting for the kids and attributes great cognitive, educational and sentimental value. ICT helps a lot with collaborative work and it makes cross - curricular references so easy. I also think that similar surveys should be developed for all subject areas, because - lets face it - not everything is about technology and we need to have the means to develop self - reflection for other types of teaching. Talking about the survey with my colleagues could prove useful only if they took it themselves. Then we could discuss the results and make suggestions as to what type of action is required in order to improve ourselves.

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Caroline has right. A project becomes more interesting when based on ICT use and teachers should help students know how to use the digital tools from the early childhood. Being at home, children play games or listen to music or watch movies online Only in school they have the opportunity to be competent users of ICT. Well, I have used ICT for cross-curricular projects and it was a great help for me and for the students' groups as well.

We all need methods that can provide us with new ideas and help us improve our digital abilities and I think that the Teacher Mentor Survey can offer a lot in this direction

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This sharing experiences highlights the teacher mentor’s benefits for teachers. I’m curious to see the advices to my answers that survey will give me.

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I agree with Caroline that Teacher Mentor survey motivate teachers to improve their ICT skills and to use them to improve their teaching methods and it will be very useful if there was something similar for all teaching subject.

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I first used this service and it really is very useful for teachers. Even those questions, which entered into force survey to think about how I use ICT as my students use someone else's material for their projects. Not so violated copyright. I agree that it is necessary to develop questions for various domains, because the technology used by the teacher in science and technology, which uses literature teacher is different.

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Discussing with my colleagues will be the second step of the implementation of ipads and IWB in my class this schoolyear. This year, I will assess my new teaching style based on what I learned during the few courses I took with the European Schoolnet Academy.

Being able to decide what to teach my colleague first will be crucial. Some of them are reluctant to ICT and I really want to show them how useful that could be in a class. Choosing the best way to start could also prove them how easy this is!

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In my school most of my colleagues are not interested at all in technology, so I think it would be impossible for me to discuss with them, if not with very few (more sensible to the topic) but I already discuss with them about what we do. But we are very very few... so it is not the main matter of discussion.

Anyway, having few lessons a week, I tend to carry on cross-curricular projects and I must use tecnology as they usually are eTwinning projects.

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self-reflection of her own teaching.

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Definitely (for all the questions). I would really benefit from discussing the results of the Teacher Mentor survey with my colleagues, but there is a problem. In my school there is just one colleague, )who by the way is a friend), who I can resort to. The other colleagues know very little of technology. However, even with my friend/colleague I rarely get the chance to work with her on school projects. The workload is such that we do not have as much time as we would love to to work together. Perhaps you already know that in Italy we do not have spaces where teachers can work comfortably: school finishes at 13.10, teachers go home and work at home. During teachers' meetings we discuss students' test results, problems, cross-curricular projects. There is no space left for technology. Very few headmasters promote digital skills because there are not funds given to schools. The ministry of education does very little to promote teachers' competence in the field of technology. No training is offered and most of the time it is more theoretical than pratical.

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Thanks for sharing experience.

ICT is a good tool for cross-curricular projects. Usually it's possible to create a final product in which the contents of several subjects are mixed.​

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Should be great to have a course on line that explain easily how to use some free software for teaching.

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i really must try it!!!!!

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I agree with caroline. teachers must be competent ICT IC they want to use it in teaching and helping the studenti in a right approcci to ict

It should be useful to discuss with the colleagues, but it is not so easy in me school

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I agree with Gro Caroline when she warns us to be critical about the use of technology and when she admits that's a way of implementing diversity in our classes. I think it can be a powerful tool to motivate students.

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I agree with Gro Caroline. Using ICT for cros-cultural projects is really important. It motivates both teachers and students.

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I totally agree with what Gro Caroline said, the use of technology in the teaching and learning process really has a positive impact on students learning practice and in the general atmosphere of the classroom. Talking about Teacher Mentor Survey, I think it's also a great tool that allows teachers develop their digital competence which will influence the students to involve technology in their learning

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The most important think on working with ICTs is that you are obliged to keep learning continuously and to reflect on your own didactic practices. I think this is great!

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Sharing our results on the scale of this Teacher Mentor helps us being motivated: it rationalizes our job; gives us distantiation and improves self-confidence as there is no negative judgement.

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I agree with Gro Caroline regarding the importance of ICT  and that we must inovole the students  with activity  during the cross curricular projects.  It has the potential to inhance .the  ICT  capabilities. It is very important to combine colleagues and friends to consultation and  evaluation. Peer friends can help us to observe what we did not see and they can help us by their experience

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Importante testimonianza

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Undoubtedly we all agree that ICT is a very important factor in today's teaching process. Every year our school has some cross-curricular projects and we do not imagine their implementation without the help of ICT. I am sure that this new tool, the Teacher Mentor, will enable me to more effective supervision of the projects and encourage not just me, but my colleagues as well.

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I agree with Gro Caroline, ICT is very important in my work. I will try this tool.

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I really must try it!

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I agree with Gro Caroline, ICT is very important to motivate and engage students, not only on cross - curricular projects. I think it would be useful to discuss with colleagues at school, but I often find myself with colleagues who don't use absolutely ICT: the lack of familiarity on ICT is a great obstacle to a constructive dialogue

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The honest eyes of our presenter give me the confidence of this ICT tool. Unfortunately I couldn't insert myself to this tool so I don't how to use it yet. As I'm very busy this time, I hope someone else should tell me how to go in and use it. Thank you very much

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I also use technology on cross-curricular projects as well as in my everyday work. I agree with everything she said about her own abilities and criticism when using ICT. She said so much in just a few minutes :) I totally agree with all the things she said!

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ICT is very important for doing cross-curricular projects and I use it too. It is useful to discuss with collegues about certain concept and you can improve teaching practice by doing so.

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Teacher Mentor can be not only a great tool but also an excellent starting point, the right strategies to improve teaching in our school.

I agree with Caroline, ICTs are very useful for developing multidisciplinary projects, motivating, not only for us but also for our students.

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I agree with Caroline. I like her proposal to have conversations with colleagues at school. Many times a different opinion open the way we think.

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Tottaly agree with Caroline ,I feel great your proposal that would improve in educational quality.Great that students have many resources.

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I agree with Gro Caroline that cross curricular projects are important and make using ICT easier in the classroom. Being able to discuss concepts from the survey with colleagues helps teachers to reflect even more on the results of the survey.

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I've appreciated the great sense of intellectual honesty that traspire from the words of this teacher, bye

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Having a computing engineer degree is a great advantage for me as English teacher because it is easy for me to use technology and learn about new developments. I think I need to improve my desing skills to produce content.

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Maybe....some colleagues certainly will consider this tool, in Italy unfortunately very few teachers speak english, this could be a problem.

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I think that similar survey should be developed for all subject areas because every subject is specific on some way, and that we should discuss concepts in the surveys with colleagues because our colleagues can give us good advices for our improvement.

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I often use ICT in my teaching. Every year I dedicate a big amount of time to search new applications to use in classroom with my students. For example, this year we are using the Ptable.com site to learn and discuss periodicity. Managing Ptable. com students can easily work about periodic properties of elements. Teacher Mentor is a new and interesting app for me, I'll try to reflect on my own work to improve my teaching methods.

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I agree with what Gro Caroline mentioned. I am trying to use ICT every day in school but it is a little difficult for me. It sounds interesting to me and useful discuss with colleagues survey's concepts.

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I don't know till now the Teacher Mentor tool, but it seems very interesting that it gives tips and reinforces motivation to keep working! It seems it would be possible to establish a real relationship!

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I totally agree with Gro Caroline when she says that if we want to have interested students, they have to be involved and active during the process. I also use ICT in cross-curricula projects as a motivation but I also want students to develop competences in using technology when they are learning Portuguese or Mathematic. I don’t agree with her when she states that “Therefore I need to be a competent user myself” because I think that the teacher can also learn with his students. So, it’s true that we must have some competences but I don’t think that the teacher has to know everything. I think that this is a question of class control and sometimes, teachers need to know everything in order to control all the classroom phases. I believe that this is wrong and the teacher shouldn’t be the person that knows everything. I totally agree with her again when she says that Teacher mentor is a great tool to evaluate practice and improve our work. I think that this could be a tool used by all the teachers of a school, for instance, and make a personal and school plan (project) to improve that teachers’ practice.