About Us

In today’s world without using digital tools, in teaching subject specific field is impossible since our students use digital tools more and more at all. Regarding this, integrating digital devices, school administration software, and applications into the classroom serve to improve learning and boost good study habits. Bearing this in mind, innovating the teaching is become imperative due to emerging corona outbreak, schools across the EU turned into online teaching to ensure safety of the kids. During the rise of online classes, teachers have tried to explore new ways of encouraging students to self-direct their learning. In this regard, academic lessons, such as Science, Maths, Language, History, etc are relatively taught through the use of digital tools. However, the social interaction required lessons, such as PE have not been taught effectively since lack of adequate, appropriate, effective and inclusive digital tools to teach PE online. Bearing this in mind, according to our desk research, conducted on 300 PE teachers, 5.000 students and 98 schools (across the partner countries) showed that during the covid outbreak the PE did not go well because:

– The current PE curriculum was designed in person and/or face to face education, which does not address the needs,

– The inadequacy of physical education teachers who are not familiar with teaching PE online,

– Lack of digital tools for physical education designed for online PE,

– Lack of motivation kids taking part in PE lessons online,

Thus, the covid outbreak showed us to rethink, reshape and redesign the current PE education, find new methods, adjust our teaching methods and/or techniques to address the needs of the teachers and students.

Objectives of the project:

– To design a need based online PE education curriculum, which addresses the current situation and future of PE,

– To strengthen PE teachers’ profiles and ease how to teach PE online through the use of digital tools,

– To produce a digital education package, which addressees the needs of PE teachers, schools and kids.

– To increase the motivation of the kids participating the PE online.

– To cooperate and network with associations representing schools, NFE centres and NGOs to create a more modern, dynamic, commitment and technology based PE education.

– To promote virtual training virtual trainings for PE teachers.

– To incorporate digital online technology into PE-specific teaching, training and learning,

– To pilot PE digital educational resources with non-formal methodological approach

The project aims to address the challenges identified above by providing PE teachers skills and competencies and young kids motivation the attitudes and skills needed to participating

PE lessons through online. STOP+ will achieve these goals through:

OI: Curriculum on teaching PE online.

O2: Web-platform, eLearning modules and tutorial videos

O3 Tooll-kit for PE teachers

O4: Webinars and seminars promoting how to teach PE online.

BENEFICIARIES:

– PE teachers.

– ICT teachers.

– Students aged 10-17.

– Schools at primary and/or secondary level in VET and general level.

– Sport staffs/NGOs.

METHODOLOGY:

The project foresees to implement blended learning approach with blended/hybrid materials. Regarding this, we first of all develop the current PE curriculum, namely we blend the PE to online tools.Then, we develop a web-platform, comprising eLearning modules and tutorial videos to ensure distance learning and self-learning. Then, we produce a tool-kit as a pondered and improved collection of the educational tools employed in the local and international phase of Piloting. This toolkit is a guideline and comprise a series of lesson plans, tools, tips to teach PE in the new normal and online. We arrange virtual trainings for PE teachers, students, educators, educators and parents of the students. To educate the PE teachers and test the effectiveness of the education package, we organize staff training. To arrange milestones of the project, we organize 4 face to face transnational meetings. To reach out wider teachers, students and education communities, we use eTwinning and SEG, namely our cooperation mainly keeps up virtually.