OUTLINE

Introduction to the module

This module is built to help teachers and school staff to turn their school into an “Open schooling system”. By using this module, practitioners will learn how to create cooperation among schools and the local community, to interact and attract local stakeholders. In particular, this module will explain how to encourage families to become real partners in school life and activities and how to involve professionals from enterprise, civil and wider society in bringing real-life projects into the classroom, as well as on how to bring students to discover the outside world, and connect with local communities.

The overall goal is to be able to build local communities where students, teachers, education policy makers, parents, and other interested members of society are included in order to expand the learning environment beyond the school walls and expand opportunities for students learning.

Keywords

Open schooling, community, networking, 21^st century skills, parents, local organizations, neighborhood, students’ competencies.

Learning objectives

• To explain what open schooling is.
• To give a theoretical basis of the open school pedagogy.
• To provide tools to analyze local community to determine possible cooperation.
• To explain how to support students interests outside the school.
• To discover how to involve parents and stakeholders into school life.

Learning outcomes

Teachers will be able to comprehend what open schooling is about.

Time estimation: 

30 minutes 

Teachers will be able to connect open schooling approach with main pedagogical theories.

Time estimation: 

30 minutes

Teachers will be able to analyze the local community around the school to determine possible cooperation.

Time estimation: 

2 hours

Teachers will be able to support students interests outside the school.

Time estimation: 

2 hours

Teachers will be able to support parents in integrating into the school life.

Time estimation: 

2 hours

Teachers will be able to involve the local community and get them involved in school life.

Time estimation: 

2 hours

Teaching and learning activities

• Workshops/webinar
• Tests
• Self-study
• Literature Review

Learning content

• OUTSIDE resource center
• Theoretical framework/learning scenarios
• PPT
• OERs

Assessment

•  Project-based activities
• Quiz

To go further

• Chung, Connie. « Using Public Schools as Community-Development Tools: Strategies for Community-Based Developers », octobre 2002. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED479731.
• « Community Schools: The Perceptions and Practices that Foster Broad-Based Collaboration among Leaders within the Community School Ecosystem - ProQuest ». Consulté le 4 juin 2021. https://www.proquest.com/openview/d593e623c894d5d70952589d37b5ac5f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.  
• « Connecting schools, families, and communities - ProQuest ». Consulté le 4 juin 2021. https://www.proquest.com/openview/dd0432174d9deae8c2ab3ab157244c05/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=11185
• Daniel, Julia, Karen Hunter Quartz, et Jeannie Oakes. « Teaching in Community Schools: Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning ». Review of Research in Education 43, n^o1 (1 mars 2019): 453-80. https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821126. 
• Lewis, Donna S. « Global Educational Ecosystem: Case study of a partnership with K–12 schools, community organizations, and business - ProQuest ». Consulté le 4 juin 2021. https://www.proquest.com/openview/d4bb7a396b931026f5eaca6e3be2024f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.  
• Mulero Jiménez, Lorena, Immaculada Torra Bitlloch, et Maria Dolors Grau Vilalta. « Open Schooling: Application in the Study of the Forest », 8487-94. IATED, 2019. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2019.2116.
• Okada, Alexandra, et Tony Sherborne. « Equipping the Next Generation for Responsible Research and Innovation with Open Educational Resources, Open Courses, Open Communities and Open Schooling: An Impact Case Study in Brazil ». Journal of Interactive Media In Education 1, n^o 18 (14 décembre 2018): 1-15. http://oro.open.ac.uk/58371/. 

Number and title of the training sessions

This module consists of 2 mutually independent sessions:

• Session 1: What is open schooling: theory and pedagogical approaches
• Session 2: Mapping and connecting with local community

The users can choose only one, several or all of them according to their needs.

Preparation to the sessions

Prior to the session, the teacher will have prepared different slide presentations. These documents are needed to support the learning process and to guide discussions. The teacher will make the presentations available to all trainees prior to the training

Material required

Laptop

Internet connection