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I know that I speak for everyone in the project when I say that we all very much looked forward to our first meeting. We had so much to do and decide that when we finally met I forgot to let everyone introduce ourselves(!). Some of us had worked in previous EU projects and some of us were new acquaintances.  We came from five different schools in five European countries; Denmark, Finland, Greece, Spain and Sweden. First task - reviewing our application, making decisions and dividing tasks. An Erasmus application is more or less a book in which the project is described in great detail, including;  What we want to do  Why we want to do it  How we should work to reach our aims  How we will spread our results and how this will change education as we know it.  We spent most of our first meeting discussing details around the application. Great teachers are made - not born Our project is not only for students but also for teachers. We will organise workshops where tea

  The idea of this project was born when we tried to improve students’ learning. In all our schools we noticed that a large fraction of our students regardless of background, lacked confidence in their own academic performance, had problem to focus their attention and gave up as soon as some resistance occurred and therefore had very limited academic success. We wanted to find a way to teach our students to overcome these obstacles. Pedagogical research has shown that the highest impact factor on school learning is the quality of the teacher and what the teacher does in the classroom (these factors having much higher impact than variables such as class size, homework, etc). Furthermore here is strong evidence that great teachers are made not born; this means there  is great scope for improving learning by adopting the most effective classroom techniques. The US Education Endowment Foundation in reviewing empirical studies found that feedback from teachers to students and metac

Welcome to our project! We are a group of teachers from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain and Greece researching about metacognitive strategies.