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DINOTOUR
DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 22-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
Presentation

• DINOTOUR
• Dinocrocs Travel to the Balkans
• Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 Ref.No
  LLP-LdV-TOI-2007-BG-166013

Kick-Off Meeting 22 24 November 2007 Roma -
ITALY
Project Presentation
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• The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus were created
  within the framework of a series of European
  Socrates-Lingua projects, co-financed for nearly
  a decade between 1992 and 2001 with the aim of
  developing and testing new teaching ideas,
  teacher training models and materials directed
  specifically at the teaching of foreign languages
  to very small children, aged between three and
  eight years old. The languages that the dinocrocs
  teach are English, German, Italian, French,
  Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, and Dutch.
• The project was launched by the University of
  Rome "La Sapienza" (Prof. Traute Taeschner), the
  proposal being to develop teaching materials for
  a teaching model referred to as the "narrative
  format approach" that has as its theoretical
  background the processes of language acquisition,
  concepts of the narrative mind and the principles
  of bilingualism (Taeschner, 1983, 1991). -
• We saw the project results at the DissMark
  Conference in Iasi, Romania 2006.

DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
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• The transfer of Innovation lies in adapting the
  innovative methodology developed through The
  Adventures of Hocus and Lotus, an EC Socrates
  Lingua project of University of Rome La
  Sapienza via the disseminating consultancy
  Dinocrocs International Training Institute
  S.r.l. and implement the innovative model for
  training the pre-school teachers into BG, RO and
  TK in pre-school and primary school education
  and training systems as part of the targeted
  countries vocationally oriented language learning
  (VOLL) theoretical and practical curriculum of
  the specialty the pre-school teacher in the
  pilot schools as an alternative to the
  traditionally oriented foreign languages teaching
  approach.
• The process of the innovative transfer includes
  the following
• Identified and analysed requirements of the
  targeted pre-school teachers in Bulgaria, Romania
  and Turkey .
• Selection and analysis of the innovative model
  concept the major innovation is that the
  teacher is not expected to know the foreign
  language he/she is teaching and the developed
  content of teaching the pre-school students and
  training of trainers and teachers to imply the
  innovation in the targeted countries-BG, RO and
  TK to meet the identified requirements.
• Promoting the adapted innovative model into the
  training systems of pre-school education of BG,
  RO and TK, according to the national educational
  requirements and integrating them as much as
  possible to those of IT, UK, DE, FR, ES having in
  mind the different cultural and social linguistic
  contexts of the targeted countries.

DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS
Kick-Off Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome,
ITALY Project Presentation
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• PROJECT AIMS
• To support improvements in quality and
  innovation in vocational education and training
  systems, institutions and practices in Bulgaria,
  Romania and Turkey.
• To support participants in training and further
  training activities, in the acquisition and the
  use of knowledge, skills and qualifications to
  facilitate personal development, employability
  and participation in the European Labour Market
• To improve the quality and attractiveness of the
  BG, RO and TK vocational system of pre-school
  education by adapting, implementing and
  integrating into the BG, RO and TK national and
  sectorial training systems for pre-school
  teachers the innovative language teaching
  approach called narrative format developed in
  the 2 previous EC Socrates Lingua Projects The
  Adventures of Hocus and Lotus and The
  Dinocrocs grow up, successfully implemented in
  IT, UK, FR, ES, DE . The products of those EC
  projects, the product line of HocusLotus, are
  a series of multimedia materials to be used
  during teacher training, at school, at home and
  to be broadcast on TV, creating positive
  synergies between School and Family.

DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
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• PROJECT MAIN OBJECTIVES
• This project is going to support 3
  teacher-trainers from each country BG, RO and TK
  (totally 9), currently practicing the job of the
  pre-school teacher (each teacher-trainer to
  implement it into practice on a group of 15
  children), in their further training and teaching
  in utilising the new teacher training Innovative
  model that was developed in response to the needs
  of the EU teachers and its methodological
  requirements.
• The Hocus and Lotus foreign language teachers
  will be trained, through this model, to put a
  series of theoretical concepts into practice and
  to train another group of 9 pre-school and
  primary school teachers (3 teachers per country)
  in each country.
• Thus improving professional development of
  teachers and the quality of teaching and learning
  in the classroom

DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 22-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
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• Measurable results and outcomes are expected to
  be
• A TRAINING COURSE for 9 pre-school teachers and
  teacher-trainers in the new innovative
  methodology
• THE METHODOLOGY INNOVATION - new teaching and
  training method for pre-school and primary school
  teachers and trainers.
• The narrative methodology handbook for nursery
  and primary school teachers and teacher-trainers
• Trainers and teachers, trained in the narrative
  methodology for teaching foreign languages at
  nursery and primary school
• Children trained in foreign languages using the
  narrative methodology for teaching foreign
  languages at nursery and primary school
• Project web -site

DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
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DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
Presentation MAIN ACTIVITIES Part I

• To reach these results main activities are to be
  fulfilled
• To set up criteria for selection of
  teacher-trainers to be trained in Italy
• To set up criteria for selection of pilot nursery
  schools
• To select teacher-trainers for training in Italy
• To select pre-school teachers for training in
  each partner country
• To decide upon level of involvement of decision
  makers institutions that monitor the work of
  nurseries and kindergartens
• To involve Universities with the specialty of
  Kindergarten and Nursery teacher in the
  second/or even first stage of training?

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DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
Presentation MAIN ACTIVITIES Part II

• To reach these results main activities are to be
  fulfilled
• To MONITOR the implementation process in each
  pre-school establishment or a kindergarten at two
  levels a) by in-country teacher- trainers, b) by
  Ms. Traute Taeschner
• To provide all the necessary MATERIALS to both
  teachers and children
• To work for the motivation of the currently
  practising pre-school teachers to acquire the
  expertise necessary to apply the innovation in
  teaching FL to young learners
• To raise the awareness of the importance of
  cultural and linguistic diversity through the
  languages introduced and to promote
  multiculturalism within the target countries
  disseminating the project Newsletters and project
  reports
• To start talks or continue broadcast of the
  Hocus and Lotus series via the educational TV
  channels.

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DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
Presentation MAIN ACTIVITIES Part III

• The last part focuses on
• Reports from external verifiers - can be
  Directors of nurseries /kindergartens, experts
  from the Ministries of Education, University
  teachers, etc.
• Interviews with teachers and teacher-trainers who
  completed their training
• Reports from teacher-trainers and teachers who
  delivered the training
• Recorded Children with results from their
  training.
• Recorded parents to share their views from
  education of their children.
• A final report to contain the implementation
  results and the Methodological Handbook
• A video dossier for evidence and future research
  material and dissemination of the project
  results.

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DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY Project
Presentation

• Children today are tyrants. They contradict their
  parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
  teachers. Socrates
• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is
  not fit to be deemed a scholar.Lao-Tzu
  (570?-490? BC)

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• DINOTOUR
• Dinocrocs Travel to the Balkans
• Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 Ref.No
  LLP-LdV-TOI-2007-BG-166013

DINOCROCS TRAVEL TO THE BALKANS Kick-Off
Meeting 23-24/11/2007 Rome, ITALY
Kick-Off Meeting 22 24 November 2007 Roma -
ITALY
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