Be a real politician!
One of the activities done during the "Young Voices in the European Democracies" project was creating a political party. During this activity all participating students had been divided in groups, and told to create an all new party from scratch. After the responsible teachers explained the task to all students, each group had to work on their own and finish creating the party until a deadline. Finally everyoane had to present their political party in front of an audience formed by the students and the teachers who are taking part in the Erasmus project.
1. ACTIVITY
Young Political Parties campaign - Guidelines for setting up a political party
2. AIM/OBJECTIVES
Aim: to evaluate the students’ political parties from participating countries
Objectives: to develop
- communication skills in English
- presentation skills
- fair evaluation skills
3. CONTENTS
Guidelines for the presentations of the political parties
4. METHODOLOGY
It would be active and participativ, students are the protagonist of their own learning process. Constructivism approach, to be aware them about the problems of the real life outside of the classroom. Connecting school and society. Students to organize, to plan, to sharing, to dialogue, to engage, to try to solve real problems together.
For all of that, we need to use the new technologies in a globalized world; iPads, tablets and free collaborative programs allow us to change the methodologies in education. Multidisciplinary approach we work at the same time: linguistic, digital, cultural, social and civic contents.
Rolls of teachers and students are changing: teachers have to know digital possibilities, have to speak different languages, have to be a coordinator to offer students materials and ideas to create, to research, to looking for…; and students have to find information, have to think about contents, have to create news products, have to research …
Schools and education are Communities based research and develop of ideas using new materials in a digital and globalized world.
5. MATERIALS
Activity in the festive hall
Tablets, iPAd, internet Access USB, documents PDF, documents PowerPoint
The festive hall for presentations
Projector and screen projection for presentations
Free web or blog for searching information and sharing conclusions
Links to documents available on our website:
Young Political Parties campaign - Guidelines for setting up a political party
- Think of something that needs to be changed – in your school/country/ Europe/the world – this will give you the kind of political party, its mission and its vision.
- Choose a name for it (full and short).
- Choose a logo and a slogan, maybe an anthem (a song).
- Write some articles of its constitution (who can be a member, how leaders are elected, how decisions are to be made, etc.)
- Include anything else that you consider relevant.
2. AIM/OBJECTIVES
Aim: to evaluate the students’ political parties from participating countries
Objectives: to develop
- communication skills in English
- presentation skills
- fair evaluation skills
3. CONTENTS
Guidelines for the presentations of the political parties
- Prepare a poster with the essential information about the political party set up by the students. Please refer to the enclosed technical conditions.
- During the first day the students present their political party. They can choose from:
- Presenting and explaining their poster.
- Doing a PowerPoint/Prezi presentation of their party.
- Showing a video with “the making of” or a recorded meeting, etc.
- Any other creative form they can think of.
4. METHODOLOGY
It would be active and participativ, students are the protagonist of their own learning process. Constructivism approach, to be aware them about the problems of the real life outside of the classroom. Connecting school and society. Students to organize, to plan, to sharing, to dialogue, to engage, to try to solve real problems together.
For all of that, we need to use the new technologies in a globalized world; iPads, tablets and free collaborative programs allow us to change the methodologies in education. Multidisciplinary approach we work at the same time: linguistic, digital, cultural, social and civic contents.
Rolls of teachers and students are changing: teachers have to know digital possibilities, have to speak different languages, have to be a coordinator to offer students materials and ideas to create, to research, to looking for…; and students have to find information, have to think about contents, have to create news products, have to research …
Schools and education are Communities based research and develop of ideas using new materials in a digital and globalized world.
5. MATERIALS
Activity in the festive hall
Tablets, iPAd, internet Access USB, documents PDF, documents PowerPoint
The festive hall for presentations
Projector and screen projection for presentations
Free web or blog for searching information and sharing conclusions
Links to documents available on our website:
instructions_to_participants.docx | |
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technical_conditions_for_the_poster.docx | |
File Size: | 295 kb |
File Type: | docx |
evaluation_sheet_political_parties.docx | |
File Size: | 15 kb |
File Type: | docx |
6. PROCESS
Posters were sent by each country in advance and displayed on the walls of the hall.
Evaluation sheets with the criteria sent to the teams in advance (instructions for setting up a political party) for each of the 3 categories: posters, ideas, presentations (Evaluation sheet for political parties)
The students presented their political parties with the help of videos, posters, songs, role plays.
Each country had 5-10 minutes for the presentation.
A student was chosen by their team to evaluate the posters, the ideas and the presentations of the other countries’political parties.
Posters were sent by each country in advance and displayed on the walls of the hall.
Evaluation sheets with the criteria sent to the teams in advance (instructions for setting up a political party) for each of the 3 categories: posters, ideas, presentations (Evaluation sheet for political parties)
The students presented their political parties with the help of videos, posters, songs, role plays.
Each country had 5-10 minutes for the presentation.
A student was chosen by their team to evaluate the posters, the ideas and the presentations of the other countries’political parties.