ACTIVITIES REPORT
Partners' Institution:
ZEPF - Universität Koblenz-Landau
Project's period (from/to):
October 2008 – June 2009
WPs concerned:
WP 5 - Test of the Training Package

Objectives of activities carried out:
- Recruiting schools / teachers for the workshops
- Carrying out workshops
- Feedback on the modules
- Moderating the forum on the module "Communication"
- Instructing teachers to fulfill their tasks
- Evaluation of the portal by the teachers
- Project Portal Evaluation Report

Time period:
October 2008 – June 2009

Description of activities carried out:
- Collecting addresses from schools and teachers
- Designing a flyer for the recruitment of teachers
- Contacting schools / head masters
- Recruiting schools / teachers
- Collecting School Presentation Forms
- Carrying out 4 workshops
- Writing a report on each workshop
- Writing group comments about the regarding modules
- Collecting teachers´ experiences
- Moderating the comments on module 2 "Communication" in the forum
- Revising module 2 "Communication"
- Instructing teachers to post 2 comments to teachers experiences from other countries
- Instructing teachers to fill in the portal evaluation form
- Analysis of data and writing of the portal evaluation report



Outcomes:
- Recruitment of schools / teachers was finished successfully: 11 teachers from 7 schools and 5 persons from the national programme "2nd chance" participated in the workshops. There were fruitful discussions about the contents of the modules. The evaluation of the workshops shows that the participants were very satisfied with the atmosphere and the exchange.
- 5 group comments were posted in the forum.
- The feedback on module 2 was being used for the revision.
- 10 teachers experiences were written.
- 10 portal evaluation forms were filled in.
- A portal evaluation report was written.
- The posting of comments to teachers experiences from other countrier are in progress.

Evaluation of the work undertaken:
The German teachers are very critical and demanding, they have high standards and expectations. Therefore, it was not always easy to work through the contents of the five modules. It was also difficult to motivate them to do "so much extra work" (writing teachers experiences - in English! -, filling in the portal evaluation form and posting 2 comments to the experiences of teachers from other countries). But in the end, we were quite successful in carrying out all tasks except for the comments that are still in progress.
It was very interesting how different the comments from the involved countries / teachers to the modules were.