Dear teacher,
When the project partners started developing the working materials, although they had concrete ideas and concepts, they had no idea of the richness and complexity that the products would achieve. Since you will feel similarly, we have put together this guide to describe the materials and how they can be used.
Special attention has been paid to the following aspects of the teaching materials
This booklet is intended to serve as a guide and reference for teachers on how to use the materials in the classroom, but it does not cover all the possible options. In this sense, we ask you to see this booklet more as a source of inspiration than as a set of instructions.
Within the European Heart project, we conducted two one-semester test runs (pilots) for the use of the materials in class. These took place at several schools in Austria, Greece and Reunion. The purpose of the pilots was to test the materials in practice and to better adapt them to the different conditions. In this booklet you will find the results in the form of concrete practical examples and tips for use.
If you want to learn more about the pilots in the different countries, we recommend having a look at Module 5 of this guide series.
The European Heart - teaching materials can be used from the 7th grade onwards independently or in interdisciplinary activities in the subjects of mother tongue, history, ethics, political education, social studies, psychology, in foreign language teaching (English, French and Modern Greek), in social skills training, as well as in projects on democracy, human rights or similar topics.