Practice

The New European Bauhaus movement is encouraging creative, contemporary, and sustainable teaching methods that will help propel learning into the future and provide a healthy environment for all students. The following article will look at some projects and resources that are promoting innovative learning styles across Europe.

A school play tackling bullying, a mindfulness exercise and a teacher choir are only some of the ways School Nº17 Botosani in Romania ensures well-being for pupils and teachers alike.

The European Year of Youth reminds us that young people should be meaningfully involved in society – in governance, community building and programme development. What does that look like in practice? Here are seven notable cases of young people taking the reins in different ways!

In order to find out how the Brede School Network links schools with organisations in the local and wider community, we visited Ket & Co in Molenbeek, which hosts regular after-school Debateville activities.

It is easy to conflate young people’s casual, uninhibited use of media with media literacy. But media literacy is not just about facility with digital devices – it also means using media thoughtfully and responsibly, with a good understanding of its nuts and bolts. These 12 European projects help teachers to explore this topic via resources dealing with digital well-being, media production and critical thinking.

The non-profit organisation La Leçon Verte offers outdoor educational activities for children, so that they can learn in new ways and in an inspiring environment. One of the schools that engages in these activities is Martin V, a primary school in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

While schools emphasise the importance of education, many students may not understand how it can translate into a career. Luckily, there are new and innovative career guidance approaches to help set your students on the right path.

Educators have seen their digital skills tested in the last year, thanks to the major shift towards online learning. Luckily, there are many resources available for them to assess their digital competence and ensure digital technologies are well incorporated into the classroom, including the soon-to-be-launched SELFIEforTEACHERS tool. This article will showcase three projects that worked with teachers to realise these objectives.

In most European countries, curriculum and pedagogy both still address the “majority” population, with less regard for the experiences of minority groups, such as migrants, people with disabilities, religious minorities, and the LGBT community. But teaching to multiple identities has clear educational benefits – and these three projects deliver them in spades.

Physical education (PE) benefits students not just in terms of fitness and health, but also in terms of ability to perform and understand physical activity, which has long-term advantages. Because of its numerous benefits, the promotion of physical activity has received increased attention at European level. In this article, we will discover four exemplary and inspiring initiatives in physical education.