{"id":52720,"date":"2016-03-15T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/school\/carma-motivating-students-through-collaborative-learning\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:51:26","slug":"carma-motivating-students-through-collaborative-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/school\/carma-motivating-students-through-collaborative-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"CARMA \u2013 Motivating students through collaborative learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CARMA<\/a>The Kick-off meeting for the project CARMA – RMA and other non-formal learning methods for Student Motivation <\/strong>took place on the 18th<\/sup> and 19th<\/sup> of February, 2016 hosted by the project coordinator CESIE in Palermo, Italy. The Kick-off meeting brought together CESIE with the 6 other partner organisations which include the University of Murcia (Spain), Pistes-Solidaires (France), Asist Ogretim Kurumlari A.S. \u2013 DOGA (Turkey), University College Leuven – UC Leuven (Belgium), INOVA+ (Portugal) and Verein Multikulturell (Austria). CESIE was honoured to host EACEA Project Officer Emilia Venot who also participated in the Kick-Off meeting of the Project.<\/p>\n

The CARMA<\/strong> project, co-funded by Erasmus+ Key Action (KA3): Support for policy reform, Prospective Initiatives Forward-Looking Cooperation Project, addresses the Priority 3 \u201cPromoting innovative, collaborative teaching and learning<\/strong>\u201d and launches an inclusive approach which fosters interaction, creativity and reciprocal learning between teachers and learners.<\/p>\n

The CARMA <\/strong>project addresses many of the recent concerns raised in European policies concerning school education in particular to reduce the rate of early school leaving to less than 10% and reduce the share of 15-year-olds under-skilled in reading, mathematics and science to less than 15% by the year 2020. It also addresses the need to support continuing professional development of teachers with reforms of teaching and learning approaches.<\/p>\n

Within this framework, the CARMA<\/strong> project aims to develop, test and introduce at schools non-formal learning<\/strong> techniques as a collaborative learning<\/strong> strategy to innovate school culture and through the involvement of policy and decision makers in school education to transform classroom practices. The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach (RMA)<\/strong> of Danilo Dolci will be introduced as an inclusive and innovative assessment tool that will allow teachers to monitor and respond rapidly to students\u2019 learning progress.<\/p>\n

Across the 7 different countries in total 28 teachers will work closely with 7 non-formal learning experts to be trained in different non-formal learning<\/strong> techniques and RMA <\/strong>methodology. This group of teachers will test out the techniques during the pilot in schools in their countries. Besides that, the series of events (The Educational Forums, European Evaluation Seminar and the Final conference) will foster key support in the knowledge transfer of evidence based results to influence policy in school education across the 7 partner countries.<\/p>\n

During the 2,5 years of the CARMA <\/strong>project, a series of outcomes will be produced:<\/p>\n