INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

In the 21st century it has become utterly impossible to organise a lesson for young students in an old-fashioned way. Teachers have to step out of their comfort zone and try to adopt new technologies and innovative methods in teaching. 

Today we have a lot of resources which we can find very useful in the teaching process. All we need to do is to find the ways that suit our needs most and try to use them every now and then. 

Of course, if teachers used the new methods in every single lesson, they wouldn’t be that appealing to either students or the teachers themselves. But sometimes when the students expect it the least, teachers can pull a rabbit out of the hat and do something new and attractive to  students. Collaboration, the use of technologies, differential learning, problem-based learning, putting emphasis on skill building (especially life skills and values)- these are just a few methods which can be used in an innovative lesson. So why don’t we become more creative and use a new, unconventional way of teaching!

One of the aims of the Erasmus+TALISMAV is to deal with innovative teaching and learning methods. Two schools from different regions have decided to merge the experience and share it with the teachers who look for something new, interesting and fun to be used in their lessons. During our short-term student exchange programme we agreed that the best way to reach our aim is to prepare a collection of the new methods that teachers in Vilnius Mykolas Birziska Gymnasium and Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren school in Madrid apply.