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The best motivation is sharing, investigating and teaching -learning process. I often share and get experience from my colleagues, it helps me to be a changemaker in my profession!

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When I found out about eTwinning, I enjoyed it so much I wanted to share with other school teachers. So I asked one of our eTwinning ambassadors to help me and she went there to talk about it and getting them into projects.
Now Some are already in some eTwinning projects, got a Quality Label and we are sharing our works and experiences. We are applying for more QL. other school staff is called to collaborate in projects.
I also attend trainings, webinars and share my experiences with my school partners.
Now we are thinking about promoting Erasmus projects too. We are looking for training and guidance.
Working together promotes professional growth.

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António Santos - Agrupamento da Junqueira 

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António Santos - Agrupamento da Junqueira 

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I shared some experiences with colleagues, I learned new teaching strategies that can improve my school and my work as a teacher.

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I talked to my collegues during teachers' meetings and I shared with them my experiences.
I think that working together will be helpful to develop our skills.
I will suggest my collegues to attend some webinar on e-twinning platform.

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I think that motivation and collaboration are essential. Sometimes it is not easy to create a common vision, to involve collegues training courses could be useful.
I usually share my experiences with my collegues during teachers'meetings

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I believe the best way to motivate someone is sharing what we do passionaly, so they can see the benefits professionaly and personaly.
We should start with a small project and support peers

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I'm new in eTwinning. I haven't start yet. I'm here to learn more about eTwinning.

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The main way to motivate students and colleagues is active participation in eTwinning, Erasmus+ projects during the whole school year because all feed from experiences, methodologies, new approaches, learn communicative competences and digital. However, other ways to learn new methods is Job shadowing or welcoming expert on any specific subject or teaching field.

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Disseminate the work developed by the students; students communicate to other students what they did, how they did it, what they felt, etc. Provide teacher training.

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Even my colleagues who are not directly involved in projects notice a difference in students once they've gone abroad and interact with students from other countries. They notice the positive effects of LTTA's on students, namely: increase in self-confidence, increase in English skills and more motivation to learn the language, increase in other school activities, etc. In sum, the number of teachers who want to get involved in Erasmus+ projects has increased.

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Colleagues who are not involved in projects often question about the impact of these experiences on improving the quality of the teaching/learning process. We have tried to demonstrate this impact by sharing the evidence and results of collaborative work carried out on eTwinning projects with teachers and students. We have also tried to involve more teachers and students in the new projects.

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I talked to my collegues during teachers' meetings and I shared with them my experiences.
I think that working together will be helpful to develop our skills.
I will suggest my collegues to attend some webinar on e-twinning platform.

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As mentioned by another colleague on this platform the greatest reward for a teacher is to see the outcomes of the pupils' work. This, in return, creates a sense of confidence for the instructor and subsequently, the need to get better and better and grasp opportunities for professional development. Short courses, seminars, webinars and workshops on concrete and practical issues are what teachers need the most.

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When I first joined an international project on eTwinning, I dropped a pebble onto a pond. I shared what I was going to do and colleagues started to adhere. eventually, lots of classes and teachers participated in some way.
I think that's it - Start small, but start something.

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I believe that I can be really enthusiastic to encourage my kinder staff to join me into eTwinning projects. It is true that my experience by working through of eTwinnin projects has been really positive as I have learnt a lot and I usually talk about these positive points. From my point of view, if all the staff is working on the same eTwinning project is better as everyone can add an idea to do some activities, add some way to develop them...but it is true that personal and professional situations do more complex that staff decides to join into the same eTwinning project.

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Nowadays, due to globalization, teachers are becoming more open-minded and see the possibilities and opportunities opened by developing their work in collaboration with other teachers and institutions. We already attend regularly different training courses and seminars related to ICT, updating teaching methodologies, content based learning, etc. In my opinion, if we start an eTwinning project in my school, we will be able to thrive and extend the already good practices to a global level.

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Feliciana Ladino -AE Carcavelos (Portugal)

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Feliciana Ladino -AE Carcavelos (Portugal)

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The best way to motivate colleagues to participate in professional development is to share our own experience, knowledge and opportunities, promoting their involvement in trainings and collaborative projects. For this we must give concrete examples of how much we have learned (ICT tools, new approaches, innovative activities) and students must share the products, the results of the projects.
The way to success is to spread the news and make my colleagues aware of the advantages and added value you get from working on Etwinning, inviting them to participate in the same events, projects, seminars

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Sandra Pinto - Agrupamento de Escolas Morgado Mateus - Portugal

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Sandra Pinto - Agrupamento de Escolas Morgado Mateus - Portugal

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I believe that the best way to get my colleagues to want to participate in these collaborative and international projects is to show them how students end up getting involved and the motivation they present for learning when they are working on these types of projects.

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Motivating others to participate in various projects can be shown by personal experience, showing examples of good practice, highlighting the benefits and opportunities that can be achieved by participating in the project.

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As a foreign language teacher, I have encouraged the teaching staff in our school to take part in training courses, modules, and special seminars in order to further their education. I have also created an exhibition of artwork which is accessible to everyone in our school, which has motivated many colleagues to register in e-Twinning and participate in projects, events and we are currently organizing a presentation of completed and on-going projects. We also intend to take part in an Erasmus program and familiarize more colleagues with the process involved.

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I believe that in order to help and motivate teachers we must take the time to listen, maintain active listening and observe. It is important to capture the essence of each teacher to help them from their perspective. Understand them and provide them with tools. In my case, to help my colleagues, we have a coffee and we talk about what they are going to do, how I could do it, I give them suggestions and I invite them to take risks, to dare. Many times we don't leave our comfort zone because we are afraid, afraid of making a mistake, of leaving our comfort zone.

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The best way to encourage colleagues to participate in professional development is to be a role model for them by sharing our own experience, knowledge and opportunities.
We can also invite them to participate in the same events, project, seminars, etc.

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Working in team is the main aim I am trying to reach working in eTwinning. When I start a project I try to involve my colleagues and find some elements or topic that can be shared with them. I think that the most difficult challenge to face in my school to enhance collaboration with other countries is the knowledge of a foreign languages. To overcome this problem we tried to organize some courses to teach the English language to the teachers. Moreover, we are trying to plan Erasmus plus project to give the opportunities to my collegaues to learn the language and share experience and good practice with the foreign partners.

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I firmly believe in cooperation and team work. Etwinning offers the opportunity to work in team improving our competences and skills. We always need to improve. Due to the pandemic we all had to develop digital competences to keep up with the new challanges. I think sharing ideas, activities and strategies is very effective both for students and teachers, tha's why it is important to motivate as many collegues as possible . The best way is to involve them in the activities which are carried out arranging an active didactic plan and sharing the results. Being an etwinning school will give the opportunity to the whole school community to become a really European school giving the chance to work in international teams improving the key European Comptetences.

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Helena Siva - Agrupamento de Escolas Santos Simões

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Helena Siva - Agrupamento de Escolas Santos Simões

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I agree that promoting professional development opportunities for staff is to keep them practical and collaborative,
As a teacher I try to attending trainning courses, webinars and I share with my colleagues.
We have a eTwinning coordinator that shares with us all the information and news.

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I am a very curious person and love to explore. I often participate in webinars, seminars and various online trainings. Everyone at school knows how much I love to research and I often share my thoughts and ideas, knowledge of new digital tools. Often colleagues lack just a little encouragement to just do something. I have been participating in eTw projects for 4 years and I am doing education at school about eTw and tools that colleagues show interest in.

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I am new in e-twinning, I have started this year. I have it very motivated and useful for students.
So, I talked to my collegues during teachers' meetings and I shared with them my experiences.
I think that working together will be helpful to develop our skills.
I will suggest my collegues to attend some webnars on e-twinning platform.

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In this period it is a necessity and a duty to be updated.   To motivate collegues, I try to get them involved in eTwinning projects and it is another place to have school,  where everyone tests themselves, learns from different colleagues from whom you learn continuously and you have fun, you create other school  ties, sometimes it’s like  a kind of escape from daily routine of local school environment.

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As a teacher, l love learn and try to be updated with different training courses.
I think that sharing with other colleages is very enrichment becuase of the learning.
I have the posibility to do a job shadowing, thank you for Erasmus+, and it was an amazing experience becuase if you are inside of one class, you can see how they manage the behaviour, how they teach, how they organize the seasson, and the term, you can see the class.... There are lot of advantages.
At the same time, i think that it could be amazing to share with your colleges, because they have good ideas and sometimes it`s quiete difficult to share because of the time.

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I believe the best motivational strategy is showing the improved results we´ve achieved with the knowledge we obtained through Etwinning.

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I think the best way is for the school management to give us an eTwining space, which we already have in our school. At the moment we lead two teachers as shared leadership. We are doing INTEF and MOOC courses and we are sharing our positive experiences with the platform and international projects.The illusion is transmitted to little by little to the entire educational community.

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Sharing with your colleages your knowledge about an specific material or a metodology that works on you is basic for a good school running.
There are several ways to show or to learn from others: courses, blogs, meetings...

I've only taken part in one etwinnig project, and by the moment I hadn't felt that I've learned from others. Maybe I need more time and works.

In my opinion, the best way it job shadowing. Starting in your own school with other teachers.
Thanks to Eramus+, last month two teachers from Estonia visited our school during one week, we showed them how we work: not only with words, they could see it; but we also learned from them.

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Being an etwinning Ambassador, helped me to support my collegues when innovating at class. I usually participate in trainning and dissemination events at school. In addition, social media, etwinning live and the bilingual program of my school gives me the opportunity to disseminate activities, events, courses..

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I think that it is important to promote a study group for teacher with an action plan.
Besides it woul be essential the support of a School Manager who trust in distributed leadership.

Involving collegues to participate is not so simple, most of them are worried for their english skills, and they are afraid of a new working enviroment.

The involvment is related to the good documentation, to show the improvement for students and the increase of professional development.

To motivate teachers is a delicate question, often background and teaching experiences are so different and the workloads are heavy so they prefer to maintain the comfort zone, so it is fundamental become the lever of change.

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GIUSEPPINA RICCERI -ITALY As a teacher I always try to be updated by attending training courses and webinars and sharing experiences with my colleagues. I started last year my first eTwinning projects, I did courses about eTwinning in order to learn what I have to do. I  disseminated and promoted all the activities I did. Furthermore, I also helped and guided colleagues to join the etwinning platform. Collaborative work is essential between teachers

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GIUSEPPINA RICCERI -ITALY As a teacher I always try to be updated by attending training courses and webinars and sharing experiences with my colleagues. I started last year my first eTwinning projects, I did courses about eTwinning in order to learn what I have to do. I  disseminated and promoted all the activities I did. Furthermore, I also helped and guided colleagues to join the etwinning platform. Collaborative work is essential between teachers

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The best way to encourage colleagues to participate in professional development is to be a role model for them by sharing our own experience, knowledge and opportunities.
We can also invite them to participate in the same events, project, seminars, etc.

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As an active eTwinner, I try to share my experience in using the platform...before Pandemic, I organized some meetings at school to show my colleagues how it works and the great opportunities it offers and I invited the local eTwinning ambassador to give a seminar for the teachers.
We participate in many Erasmus+ projects, so that some of the teachers and students involved have tried to share some materials through eTwinning. I strongly encourage active participation, and I usually disseminate through various communication channels, such as the official school website, FB, the local press... but it's not always easy to get the right attention...

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1. Disseminate projects, share practices;
2. Promote workshops on new digital tools;
3. Promote events or teacher training about eTwinning at your school, in collaboration with other etwinners and your school eTwinning mentor

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In my opinion, the best way to motivate  colleagues to participate in professional development is to share our knowledge, experience and good practice examples. Teachers can learn a lot from one another and get motivated for further professional development. At my school, we formed an eTwinning tean where we share our knowledge, help each other in implementing eTwinning and Erasmus + projects. We also invite our local eTwinning ambassador who organises an eTwinning seminar for all the teachers. We regularly attend online webinars on the eTwinning Live platform.

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Personal motivation is essential for a teacher to develop his/her own abilities and professional skills. Sharing your own training exerience is a good way to motivate other teachers and encourage them to improve. Etwinning and Erasmus Plus offer different options that teacher should consider and then share with others.

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The dissimination of events, the sharing of experiences and the invition to join a project can contribute to motivating other teachers.

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In our school system, teachers should participate in meetings and trainings organized by our national education agency. However, only some teachers show enthusiasm for developing teaching skills and progress. The only way to encourage other teachers is to show the example of the value of working on yourself. To promote the professional development of teachers, training activities should be organized in the school where more experienced teachers will share their knowledge with colleagues.

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The best way to motivate colleagues to get involved in trainings and collaborative projects is giving concrete examples of how much we learn. I usually share the most amazing things I learn (and there are many: ICT tools, new approaches, innovative activities) and students share the products, the outcomes of the projects in a private school online community.

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We can motivate our colleagues in various ways, but the important thing is that they believe in our work. They need to see us as capable people, as born leaders.

If they see us as capable people then we can motivate them:
By encouraging them to join a small project (initially);
Support them during the whole project (searching for a project, or elaborating a project, organising activities...etc...);
Make their work visible in informal meetings, so that they can talk about the project, say what difficulties they are experiencing, support them in making decisions
Publicise my projects and talk about my difficulties, my uncertainties, and ask them for their collaboration
To be enthusiastic about their progress
To be always available to collaborate with colleagues
Always be ready to learn from my colleagues

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In my opinion, I think we can motivate new colleagues through joint projects and by sharing knowledge.
We can organize training, with the sharing of documents for all interested colleagues

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The best way to motivate our colleagues is sharing what we do, and what we achieve with students. Some of them are not confortable in changing they way of teach, but we can bring them to our projects, listening they ideas and try to achieve goals. When students share entusiasm and the work donne maybe other teachers want to get involved to. I also share with my colleagues relevant information about professional development and new ICT tools.

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As an individual teacher, I can involve my colleagues by showing them what I have been able to learn through the opportunities of international professional training. When I started signing up on theTwinning platform, I talked to my head teacher about it and we organized an online event for colleagues , to show them some useful experiences I knew during the courses and to show them the contents and activities of the project I was participating in at that time. In addition, I happened to promote training events of professional development eTwinning by sharing them in the school group. Then, after involving two colleagues to actively participate in both projects and training opportunities of eTwinning, we created together an event on etwinning Live and we advertised it within the school.

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I am very curious and willing to learn and acquire new knowledge. My classmates know this and know that I am always willing to help. I think my example motivates others.

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The road to success is to spread the news and  make my colleagues aware of the advantages and added value you get when working on Etwinning!
So, it would be fundamental to organise training sessions for those less experienced and to show them the projects carried out up to now in the attempt of  sharing the expertise  and the potential of this learning/teaching method, in terms of languages improvement , culture growth and awareness and mastering the ICT tools.

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I share my ideas with my colleagues, I don't do it every day, but when they ask me or when they need help, I'm always there for them. Whenever I find out about good project, I share it with my friends. Also if they don't know how to use certain web 2.0 tool and I have used it, I show them how to, or I advise better one. My idea is that we all should share what we know and we all need to help each other to achieve our goals.

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I guess the only way would be by giving example. Sharing what I have learned and how I have applied it to my teaching practice.
Also, sharing information about professional development opportunities in staff meetings, school website.

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I agree with your comments.
The strongest tool is positive results of projects that have being carried out. The students reflection when they spread the valued activities they took part on it.

The proof that contents are included and have been acquire by students through eTwinning projects.

Also involve teachers when you design or take part in one etwinning project, force teachers to search on the website, digital resources, coworkers and learning from others...

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The way to motivate my colleagues is to talk about our projects and the development oppurtunities that comes up and to dessiminate through the school website.

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As a teacher, I can do short-term training for the school community, both in terms of the functioning of the etwinning platform, in terms of project development, and in terms of the use of some digital tools.

Develop etwinning projects with the collaboration of other school teachers.

Do online and/or face-to-face training both in my country and in other countries in different areas - either in my academic specificity (arts), or in work/group methodologies, or in pedagogy, or in transversal themes (citizenship, ecology, solidarity, among others).

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I think the best option is to spread our projects by word of mouth, letting colleagues talk about the benefits of these collaborations.

Social media is crucial nowadays, and we have to show our projects in websites and even talks.

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Involving teachers in the dynamics of an etwinning project is undoubtedly an asset for collaborative and interdisciplinary work. Each teacher from different areas can participate in etwinning projects or other European projects. However, the project coordinator should organize and plan each stage, so that teachers can overcome the first difficulties felt. It is also important to carry out induction training.

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Everyday I share my work and ideas with classmates. I try to motivate my colleagues to use new strategies in the classroom, such as project work and using available technologies, as they help us in many ways, helping to motivate students and at the same time save us time for other activities.

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Glória Coelho -AE S. Bento - Vizela- Portugal

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Glória Coelho -AE S. Bento - Vizela- Portugal

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Através do desafio de uma colega que viaja neste mundo global do eTwinning abri a porta deste cenário, onde todos aprendem, temos o Inglês, a capacitação digital, a criatividade, o sentido critico e acima de tudo saber que estamos a ser valorizados. Estou a dar as primeiras pegadas, somente como parceira de projetos, com um inglês de tradutor, mas com muito entusiasmo e envolvendo alunos com necessidades educativas....potenciar e promover a articulação com  toda a comunidade educativa é o meu propósito, no final deste curso.

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As a teacher, sharing ideas with classmates always benefits. Helping each other makes us all generate learning, in meetings and seminars we do so in our school. Showing my projects to colleagues helps them and complements all the knowledge they have.

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Ana Magano - Agrupamento de Escolas da Damaia, Portugal

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Ana Magano - Agrupamento de Escolas da Damaia, Portugal

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As an individual, I am preparing a presentation about the projects I have done and participated in on eTwinning for the whole school. I am taking this course to learn more so our school can get certified and motivate my peers.
As the first teacher at my school to have participated in etwinning projects, “dragged” a colleague to an Erasmus+ project and now getting certification to the school, the school board is giving me room to implement my ideas and bring more teachers onboard eTwinning projects.
It was very rewarding to see many colleagues asking me how to use eTwinning projects because their students wanted to work like my students and our ideas were very interesting. It is great to know more teachers are motivated to do something different and jump onboard this great community that is eTwinning.
Before writing this padlet, I read the information and watched the videos. Knowing that my crazy idea of involving the whole school through seminars and showing the teachers and students how to use eTwinning projects to motivate both parties is not such a crazy idea, has been done and is proven effective was very heartwarming.
I am glad the school board is giving me all the tools I need to make sure we will be a wonderful role model to other groupings of schools and our community. Our students, our families, our teachers will benefit from this change and the new approach to teaching and learning. Giving students more freedom to select items and learn at their own pace will give them more motivation and take so much pressure off both parties.
By promoting teachers’ training, through European training sessions, we are helping them achieve their true potential, keeping them up to date on the latest teaching methodologies and motivating them throughout the school year.
About a month ago a colleague asked me for help to get into eTwinning because she was exhausted and frustrated. She told me she has been working with her students the same way for far too many years, she saw the work I was doing with my grade 7 students, famous for their poor behavior in class, but now they were bringing their laptops to my class every week and even communicating in English. (Apparently word spread like wildfire…) She said she didn’t know what else to do except doing a somersault. I told her she needed to be careful with those tricks, but she could ask the kids to do them for her. Maybe she could try having the kids move around the classroom instead. Maybe they could go outside for a reading activity or creative writing activity.
She did something similar and the students loved the activity. So last week this same colleague was eager to learn more about eTwinning and so was another colleague and that’s when I said I would prepare a seminar and a workshop where they could all learn about eTwinning, how to register on the platform and that we could start with something small in September and then they could spread their wings and go for international  projects.
I believe my school is doing the right thing by having this approach and allowing the whole community to open their minds to new ideas.

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I will continue to share what I have already learned and what skills I have gained from participating in international projects, in the webinars I attended and in the courses I participated in organized by foreign entities. These international events allow us to learn about the functioning of schools different from ours and the pedagogical strategies used in these schools, sometimes with students with the same problems as ours. As I am a teacher trainer, I want to share my experience in the courses I organize and in the events in which I participate.

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I try to involve my colleagues in the eTwinning projects I have been carrying out at my school. By participating in professional development trainings, I ensure that other teachers in the school are aware of these trainings. I can organize informative events about eTwinning projects. I can organize meetings to motivate my colleagues. The fact that my eTwinning project won the 1st place in Turkey really motivated other colleagues and this year all 3 of my friends started actively doing projects, and 5 of my friends became members of the etwinning platform. Every month we organized eTwinning webinars in our city and gave an important basic information about how to be implemented a project. We presented the information to our teacher friends in online meetings.

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To promote the continuous professional development of the team, professional training actions must be implemented for teachers and employees. Use elearning as a promoter of collaborative learning. The knowledge and skills acquired during the training process are increasingly valued. It is an opportunity for professional and development. Promoting the development of skills (soft skills) such as autonomy, responsibility, creativity, the ability to solve problems in a team, are increasingly necessary in the world of work. Acquiring new technical and digital skills is essential in this world, where everything changes very quickly.

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I think that what I can do individually, to motivate and help other colleagues to participate, is what I've been trying to do: invite other teachers from the classes I involve to get involved and participate actively, explain to them how to do it. and what, supporting them. I am a very young etwinner, I started in 2021, and I founded two projects, one in 2021 and another now in 2022, the first one helped me to internalize the intended goals, in this second I already involved 45 students and managed to involve 4 more teachers. I think it goes there, motivating and motivating also helps us to stay motivated.

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In my experience, compulsory courses are non-effective and are usually perceived as a burden by teachers already overwhelmed by paperwork and meetings.

A good piece of advice I’d give to myself is to start small: find a group of teachers that share an interest in a particular topic/methodology/project, organise a study group with them offering support and sharing knowledge and practices, and meet regularly but keep it short (a colleague in this Padlet suggested the “eTwinning coffees”, 20 minutes meetings). Ask the headteacher for some space during formal meetings attended by the whole school community for the study group to share their work. Hopefully, more colleagues will be intrigued by the presentations and will start participating.

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I like very much to learn and I have been participate in events online and increase my competences and skills. When there are oportunities to professional development, like courses, webinars, I say to my colleages/teachers for learn more and more..It is important to improve and learn for digital competences.

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I work very hard on my professional development. With eTwinning and covid events (when all the events took place online) I really developed my digital competencies and skills. I apply everything I learn in my classroom and pass it on. I love sharing knowledge and simply adore eTwinning teachers who selflessly share ideas and knowledge.

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Our continuous learning and development is easier if we go together, that is why great results are achieved when the entire Educational Community works together. Every day, sharing learning with teachers, students and families is a real fascination.

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Sharing is caring
learning by doing
My colleagues have been watching me and they have been observing my etwinning activities thinking that I am crazy because I work too much! Bit by bit they are starting working with me .

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Teachers should attend seminars with similar topics in order to get well informed and acquainted with this theme. They should take part in etwinning projects and erasmus that promote the skills of digital literacy

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In my clouster of schools I've promoted a short online training event about eTwinning and its features. In a universe of about 250 teachers, only 25 attended the training event. I think the main problems are time and language. Teachers struggle with daily work and have difficulties in understanding English. And this can be an obstacle in engaging teachers in international professional development. However it is important to continue motivating teachers, this time were 25 teachers, next time will be 35 and another time it will be 50. As for the development of eTwinning projects, next year as a way to motivate teachers I intend to look for a project about Citizenship and help teachers in their development as it is cross-curricular to all years.

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I am a support teacher and I work collaboratively with all the full teachers of the class and also with the special education teacher. I have always promoted many projects in order to encourage collaborative work at my school, which was not always very well regarded or accepted by everyone, but over time mentalities changed. This year, with each of the classes I work with, I promoted an eTwinning project managing to involve all the teachers and getting them all to sign up for the platform and even being asked to come back to new eTwinning projects for the next year!!

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We agree that promoting professional development opportunities for staff is to keep them practical and collaborative. I had already a lot of professional opportunies that eTwnning gave me. I participate in several courses and events. At the beggining of this school year er promoted a staff training about etwinnig and Erasmus +. Since 2008 that I'm a eTwinnwer and my professional growth is connected to eTwinning.

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Cristina Moreira carvalho- AE Arrifana, Santa Maria da Feira - Portugal

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Cristina Moreira carvalho- AE Arrifana, Santa Maria da Feira - Portugal

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I'm a curious teacher that is always searching for new ways to improve and develop my teaching. I always try to devote some time to an in-depth learning opportunity. We can always learn something new and through training, we can innovate and apply new methods in our classroom. Peer and collaborative learning enrich our professional development. I take self-interest online seminars, learning events, online courses, webinars, seminars, international structured courses ( Erasmus +), MOOCs,  and I always try to inform and motivate other teachers to do the same.
In our school, as we have a digital plan, we have sessions where the use of tools is explained and methodologies are shared.  In general, teachers support each other, share and exchange, and learn together. For example, the courses that teachers attend nationally or internationally are disseminated in the school, promoting professional development.
My curious mind leads me on a lifelong learning journey and I strongly try to motivate my colleagues to do the same.
For example, eTwinnnig projects enable us to work closely and share knowledge and skills.
As the eTwinning Mentor in my school, I share my personal experience and keep teachers informed about eTwinning projects, I help them get involved and I don't give up motivating more and more teachers to participate in eTwinning projects and become more experienced as far as PBL is concerned. Collaboration and curiosity are crucial in this process of being updated with new methodologies and innovation.
However, we have to recognise that there are colleagues who don't think the same. And worse, we have to deal with colleagues who are reluctant and don't recognise they can learn with more experienced ones. Instead, they seem jealous and even think that the teachers who want to feel self-fulfilled and learn are vain. We're in a continuous struggle.

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As a teacher I always try to be updated attending trainings courses, webinars and sharing experiences with my colleagues. At school we always do sessions where teachers explain their projects, their webinars...
I started last year my first eTwinning project, I did MOOC and NOOC courses about eTwinning in order to learn what I have to do. I try to disseminate and promote all the activities I do. Furthermore, I also help and guide colleagues when they start a project. Collaborative work is important between staff.

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What I can do and I am happy to do, is share my personal experience and encourage my colleagues to try out new ideas and find out what suits them. In my school we have a team for education regarding professional development, in which I actively take part, and all members suggest topics for workshops to share what we find useful and effective in form of workshops for everyone who wants to participate.

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I think that  "curiosity"  is at the basis of "learning" and if you want to be a good teacher, you shoud base your professional development on learning more and more! In addition, we are supposed to train continuously, in the so-called life-long learning!
That's why, whenever I can, I follow webinars, seminars and similar learning opportunities and share the news with my colleagues!
I also think that teachers should be humble and admit that they can either make mistakes   and learn from more experienced teachers!
Not evey colleagues thinks the same, but it is important to keep on trying!

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Helena Silva - Agrupamento de Escolas Santos Simões

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Helena Silva - Agrupamento de Escolas Santos Simões

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As a teacher I always try to update my knowledge and for that I attend trainings, webinars, share experiences with colleagues. We must always seek to build knowledge, since the school is constantly changing and presents more and more challenges to educators.

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Good morning everyone!

Sharing knowledge, following up with younger teachers and encouraging those who are more discouraged is the goal of good leadership. It is not always possible to share effectively and continuously, as there is often a lack of common time to do so. In my school we have a common time where this is done: pedagogical and scientific training, sharing of experiences and materials. We often receive other people (technicians, teachers) to share their knowledge and materials in short-term training.

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Personally, I often and willingly participate in courses, webinars, seminars for my personal professional development. What I try to do in my school is bring ideas of what was useful to me, talk to colleagues, give some suggestions, invite them too to the courses I take, explain why it was useful to me, where and when I used what I learned...
I not only attend courses, webinars and seminars organized by the Ministry or by publishing houses, I often also attend courses of non-governmental organizations and which very often I find more interesting, creative and useful.

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Individually, I've been trying to increase my knowledge about etwinning (mooc, webinar…), share it with my partners in the schools where I go, entice them to enter this vast and wonderful world that is collaboration with others. Over time, I try to convey the message that this is an excellent learning opportunity, motivating for students and teachers and whose horizons go beyond our “window” at home; it is an open window to the world for other ways of learning, teaching and working. Most of the time I hit a concrete wall, I try to get around it inviting them into my little etwinner world, but I rarely succeed. Most of the colleagues I've worked with don't want to hear, they're not even available to help and that's why I keep moving forward and even against all the odds I create some cooperation with students, families and external entities. I share, share, share… in the hope that one day they will accept, at least, to try a little. Today we live in a time when merit is rarely recognized by superiors and I believe that this influence weighs on the decision.

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I think I should spread the word about the eTwinning projects that I carried out at the school so that new classmates would like to work on this platform.
Explaining and seeing the projects is the only way to motivate them.
I prepare seminars in eTwinning at the beginnig of the course.
I would also do talks with colleagues and their doubts about this platform.

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As a teacher I should always be updated in what concerns my subjects (English and German) but also cultural knowledge. Besides, I think it is necessary to have a curious mind and being non-conformist in order to do more and better.
It's what I try to do; the problem I face has to do with "time" as we teachers - in Portugal (maybe everywhere) - have such a heavy schedule! The bureaucracy is enormous and most of the times we are filling some papers, documents.
In order to motivate my colleagues I need to be motivated first and show them the benefits I have when I am developing and participating in international projects.

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We have organized webinars or seminars in the school for the development of digital technology, and otherwise we can only develop professionally. By the way, I present every online seminar or webinar or some digital tool I use to my colleagues at the Classroom Active, which consists of all teachers from 1st to 4th grade, so we exchange experiences and motivate each other for professional development. Most use digital technology in working with students but also in evaluating student achievement. We don't have tablets in the classrooms, but we have one room in the school equipped and we all use it.

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Continuous professional development of staff is compulsory in Italy and in our case the school principal gives every year financial rewards to those teachers who have attended courses regarding topics which are important for the school offer (languages, digital, teaching methodologies and so on).

As the person in charge of the internationalisation of my school, I try every day to motivate my colleagues to participate in regular and international professional development opportunities. I inform them continuously about seminars in eTwinning and elsewhere, I prepare tutorials for the use of the platform, I try to disseminate in a dedicated blog the results of all projects which are now running in order to let them take inspiration. I am always there to support them when choosing development courses and invite them to participate to events organized by the school or to meetings where different teachers discuss and try to learn from each other's experience.
I think the school principal should schedule such meetings and events at the beginning of each school year so that teachers cannot say that they haven't enough time.

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The school has a digitization plan that includes digital infrastructure and the development of digital competencies
employees. School staff is continuously developing their own digital competencies. Furnishing
digital technologies as well as the improvement of digital competencies of employees is carried out according to
plan and continuous.
Digital data collected through information systems is processed by most employees
applied for the purpose of raising quality. Most teachers use digital in the teaching process
content from the Internet and creates its own digital content. For most teachers, the application is also visible
digital technologies in the process of evaluating student achievement as well as in the adaptation of teaching
individual needs of students.
Most students apply digital technologies for learning and collaboration.
The school has experience participating in multiple projects involving digital technologies. Access
internet is possible from individual school premises, for staff and students. Students and teachers have
the ability to use digital technology outside the computer room. Technical support provided
in school it is effective in most cases.

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I work in a rural school were every year change at least 70% of the school teachers.
I usually start the course in my school with 3 etwinning coffes, one per week, at school break time.
In those coffe breaks (20 minutes) I make a summary of etwinning world: show how to learn, how to open a project and how to work in it. At the end teachers who want to collaborate in a project make additional meetings and later we suggest in etwinning live forums if any etwinner is interested in working with us in our project proposal.

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A collaborative practice among the entire educational community would be the ideal solution. Nowadays, teachers are overwhelmed by bureaucracy and paperwork that they hardly have time to prepare motivating and different classes for their students.The change has to be structural. It has to start with the direction of schools and the Ministry of Education.
I always try to do my best, but sometimes I feel tired because your effort is not always rewarded.

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eTwinning offers opportunities to help educators develop professionally. I would definitely invite them to attend seminars and workshops. I would also organise in school event to inform them about professional development opportunities.

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Glória Coelho AE S. Bento Vizela-Portugal

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Glória Coelho AE S. Bento Vizela-Portugal

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Só conseguimos criar uma cultura colaborativa se as nossas práticas seguirem esse rumo. Ter a capacidade e a humildade de procurar formação, valorizar o potencial e o conhecimento do outro, e derrubar as barreira do aluno é o caminho para uma escola onde todos aprendem.

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Continuous professional development of staff is compulsory in Portuguese schools. In the beginning it was quite difficult to accept this annual training process but now people know that they have to fulfil some criteria and fortunately we can choose from a wide range of themes and activities.

Meanwhile we can promote some seminars and webinars and I am willing to do it at school to promote collaboration among teachers.

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In my opinion, teachers feel overloaded with so many lessons and bureaucracy. If we let them work a bit less, in the way they would not do so much paperwork and would not have so many lessons, they could concentrate on something which is beneficial and interesting for them. eTwinning is perfect for this, there are webinars they can choose from or courses- professional development. And if everyone tried at least one project in their subject, they would find out how interesting the lessons could be and how beneficial it would be both for them and for students.

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I improve regularly and this is important, I also share my knowledge and examples of good practice with other colleagues, I try to win over others in our community.
English is an obstacle for many, so it would be good to include more languages. Inclusion is important to us, so we should include those who do not speak English.

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It is not easy to involve teachers in working collaboratively if this is not recognized and if it involves effort outside working hours.
What could be done was to try to make teachers realize how much collaborative work is an asset in our profession and that we are all one in the development of our young people's learning. We contribute to the same cause together.
In eTwinning projects we achieve this, we feel supported and we feel as if we are all part of the same problem/project.

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I try to disseminate and promote as many diversified activities as possible, to find the greatest possible applicability of the projects and to make known as well as possible the implementation of what I learned in the courses.

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Promoting a professional development of staff and thus making colleagues get in touch with the possibilities of eTwinning is perhaps the biggest problem that we are facing right now. I have already presented the platform in a 10-minute presentation on the occasion of a staff meeting in April, yet the interest has not changed, as it seems. There are two other ways that I am willing to try: First, I want to give seminars to interested colleagues, perhaps during a training program, which we have twice every schoolyear. Second, revealing the advantages of eTwinning for teachers can be done with the help of regular reports, a display in the building as well as by using the homepage of my school.

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These opportunities of international professional development are powerful means of knowledge. I think improving English skills would help people to approach these channels more confidently. Those who do not know English well stop at this obstacle.

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In my school I always try to promote good practices by socializing what I learn in training courses like this and by creating work groups. I am not always very successful but in the meantime I sow and someone follows me.

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First of all, I would inform them about different ways of becoming innovative and I would tell them about the benefits of participating in collaborative projects.

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I have try to get the message across that there are excellent international learning opportunities, that you don't have to be afraid if you are not fluent in English, that you are not afraid to take risks and that you will find a group of colleagues who are available to help.