Self Evaluation For European Schools (SEFES)

Mobility / Visits

Please choose one of the following documentation sections:

4.1. SEFES Meetings 4.1.1. Meeting I Hamburg
4.1.2. Meeting II Kaunas
4.1.3. Meeting III Rzeszow
4.1.4. Meeting IV Reykjavik
4.1.5. Meeting V Rovaniemi
4.1.6 Meeting VI Hamburg
4.2. Individual Visits 4.2.1. Asta and Rima visit to Rzeszow
4.2.2. Rima visit to Reykjavik
4.2.3. Sabine visit to Rzeszow
4.3. Courses And Conferences 4.3.1. Sequals Course
4.3.2. Synevanet conference in Hall 2005 (PPT)
4.3.3. Synevanet conference in Talinn 2006
4.3.5. Action Research (PPT)

Meeting I - Hamburg

Program:

School Development Project
Self-Evaluation for European Schools

AGENDA

Thursday Oct 23. 2003

09.35 – 11.05 Visiting English lessons

11.20 – 13.30 R 23  Project work

  • Welcome (headmaster)
  • Introductions
  • Expectations
  • Presentations (good practise evaluations at our schools)

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.30 Guided sightseeing tour

17.00 – 19.30 R 23

  • Discussing good practise evaluations
  • Short report on the Tramin-seminar: school based evaluation
  • Evaluation of the day`s activites

Friday Oct 24. 2003

10.00 Visiting Town Hall (Rathaus) or visiting ICT-lessons at school

11.30 – 13.00 R 23 (library)

  • Content of project
  • Deciding quality indicators and evaluaton instruments
  • Concrete tasks (who will do what until when?)

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 18.00 R 23 (library)

  • Decide on next meeting (when and where) to review the activities and continue evaluation process
  • Discuss year 2, possibility of adding new partners ( Finland )
  • Year 2 application strategy (deadline Feb 1st. 2004)
  • Evaluation of the second day

Saturday Oct 25. 2003

Continue year 2 discussion

Participants:

Werner Maass, Hamburg
Sabine Ott, Hamburg
Angelika Wollermann, Hamburg
Ármann Halldórsson, Reykjavik
Jón Ingvar Kjaran, Reykjavik
Thorkell Diego, Reykjavik
Asta Savickiene, Kaunas
Rima Kubiliene, Kaunas
Agnieszka Berezowska, Rzeszow
Malgorzata Domka, Rzeszow
Maria Malarska, Rzeszow

Some results:

Meeting in Hamburg

When the schools presented their experiences in the field of evaluation we noticed great differences between the schools.

Hamburg ” showed a presentation of a project evaluation as the school is not familiar with regular evaluation.

Reykjavik ” who are used to having several questionnaires at the end of each school year presented various types of evaluation: home-made questionnaires, professional instruments and electronic evaluation using the PC.

Kaunas ” and “ Rzeszow ” are used to having an assessment by a school inspector and they spend a lot of time evaluating the teaching.

What do our schools have in common?

We came to the result that there is still a lack of a culture of self-evaluation. This makes a big difference to the external evaluation mentioned above. Self-evaluation can have positive effects on the development of the school, the school organisation, the climate at school, teaching and learning.

We decided to focus on the teaching-learning process at the beginning of our project. The members of the project group have a common personal interest: improving one`s own teaching, becoming a better teacher.

Project vision

We agreed on a project vision for the next three years: Our four schools are developing a culture of self-evaluation, we are comparing each other`s practise, are learning from the partner and are helping each other as we are in a similar situation. There is no hierarchy among the schools so that a climate of trust can arise.

Next steps

  1. Collecting evaluation instruments, mainly tools that can be used for a feedback after a short period of teaching. Trying to avoid questionnaires.
  2. Teacher`s diary. In all schools some teachers are writng a diary for a unit of about 15 lessons.
  3. The website of the project is getting a new address. The project is called SEFES from now on.
  4. The website of the project is containing a discussion platform as well as a protected area for the teacher`s diaries.
  5. The website is online on Nov. 15th. All partners involved are sending their information to Reykjavik .
  6. Some teachers are using the evaluation tools (1.) and their reports are being published in the web.
  7. The diaries are being published in the protected area only.
  8. The project language is English, reports in German are being accepted as well.
  9. For the second year we are going to focus on peer-evaluation.
  10. The second project meeting is taking place in Kaunas at the end of March 2004.

W. Maass