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If you can say YES to one of these questions, then the PLACES ACADEMY is interesting for you.
The PLACES Academy, which is a toolbox with concrete learning and teaching material that you can learn from and / or use directly together with your pupils, if you want to use storytelling and playful learning in your teaching.
The development of the PLACES Academy is based on the desire to teach in new ways when it comes to the SDGs and knowledge about European co-operation, but this does not mean that the material should only be used for these thematic area. The material is developed in a generic way, so that you can use it in other subjects and in any way that you would like. Only your own imagination sets the limit.
Inspiration and Good Practice material, which is a collection of 10 good stories from the teachers who participated actively in the PLACES project; who received training and who have worked actively with the material in their teaching.
In these good practice stories you can read about how teachers engaged pupils in group work and discussions as well as in creative thinking processes. There are also good practice stories about how the material inspired the teachers to create and tell stories themselves – or let pupils create and tell stories or write poems based on what their heard in the stories.
The knowledge that we have gained from the good practice stories, and the substantial evaluation exercise that was carried out with teachers and pupils, has been used to elaborate a set of implementation and policy recommendations and hans-on tips and tricks to start working with story telling and playful learning.
In the Evidence Base Behind the Academy section, you can find a theoretical introduction to the four concepts that the PLACES Academy is based on. These 4 concepts are;
You can also find the needs analysis that was carried out in the beginning of the PLACES project, which together with the theoretical concepts, created the foundation for the development of the entire PLACES Academy.
Last, but not least, you can find the report from the evaluation exercise that was carried out as part of the PLACES project, where teachers and pupils gave feedback on the use and application of the material from the PLACES Academy, and provided input for the final fine-tuning of the PLACES material.
The PLACES Academy has been developed with financial support from the ERASMUS+ programme. In the section The Project behind the Academy you can read about the PLACES project and meet the partnership that worked together over a period of 3 years to develop, test and offer the learning and teaching materials that you find here on the Play-2-Learn Platform.