Innovative teaching methods

Comenius meeting, Helsinki 2014Jana Lněničková

OAVIN, Prague, Czech Republic

Fields of education:a) Tourismb) Economy and business in EUc) Economic lyceum

Introduction: our school

One class Different curriculum (chemistry, biology,

physics…) The 2nd and the 3rd year: PROJECTS

Economic lyceum

How the projects work

2nd year

Choose one project Work in pairs Language: Czech Grade: part of the

subject

3rd year

Choose one project Only one person for

each project Language: depends on

the theme Grade: individual mark

on the school report

How it should look

1. Written work Minimum 15 standard

pages Contains: topic,

introduction, solution of procedure, solving professional problems, results, conclusion, resources, appendix

Also electronic form

2. Presentation 10-15 minutes Presenting the

project Defending opinions Answering questions

from the board

Cooperation with another student and teacher

Learning how to search and work with information

Learning to prepare PowerPoint presentation Learning to present a project Learning to defend it

Benefits for students

IntroductionMost adults think, that teenagers are crazy, irresponsible and their behavior is exaggerated. Perhaps because teenagers act like they act. And maybe because you act like you act. Teenagers often don’t even know why they are sad, why they cry or why they explode with laughter. Teenagers want to try new things (mostly prohibited things – because how we all know- forbidden fruit tastes best). Teenagers want to risk, they feel like rebels, they feel freely, they want to feel grown up. To what extent are they able to take the risk? Why they take risk? Do they break the rules? Do they test what happens then? We will try to answer these and many other questions.

Writen project: example

Questionnaire: examples

Questionnaire:

1) Have you ever been ll but went to school/work anyway? (You should have stayed in bed but went to school/work instead.) a) almost every time b) often c) just once d) never

2) How much do you take a risk at sport?

a) I go 100% even if I could be injured b) I only take risks when necessary c) I don’t risk at all, I play for fun d) I don’t sport

3) You should be revising for a next day’s test. Do you go out in spite of that.

a) almost every time b) sometimes c) almost never d) never

Results of the questionnaire

36%

64%

Have you ever been unfaithful?

YES NO

Presentation: example

Presentation: example

Our hypothesis

We hypothesized that our studywould show significant difference in behaviour of young people. We think that young people are more likely to risk than adults because they want to try new things, they want to overcome boundaries and they trying what they can afford and what’s happened.

Thank you for your attention