Teacher Stories

Krisztina Varga, a languages and ICT teacher from Hungary, decided to make use of both of her teaching disciplines while helping her pupils to revise for an end-of-term examination: her class used the Internet and ICT to revise their English vocabulary.

To learn more about her class’s activities, click here.

• Teacher: Krisztina Varga
• School: Saint Emeric Catholic Primary School
• Country: Hungary

Two teachers in Germany, Dr. Philip Bracher and Dr. Stefan Fischer, decided to make a stop-motion animation film as an inter-disciplinary project with their pupils, as part of their German and art studies.

To learn more about their pupils’ project, click here.

Teacher: Dr. Philip Bracher, Dr. Stefan Fischer

School: Bertha-von-Suttner Gymnasium

Country: Germany

Harald Wilfer, a teacher in Bertha-von-Suttner-Schule, Germany, teaches his class about the explorer Christopher Columbus.

To learn more about Harald's use of Learning Activities in history class, click here.

Teacher: Harald Wilfer

School: Bertha-von-Suttner-Schule

Country: Germany

When Ana Paula Alves, a teacher in Portugal, was taking part in the second cycle of the iTEC project, she decided to do more than just teach her class maths. Ana Paula encouraged her pupils to collaborate using digital tools, such as audio recordings, social networking sites, anTeamUp, a collaborative tool developed for the iTEC project.

Click here to learn more.

Teacher: Ana Paula Alves

School: Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Francisco Sanches

Country: Portugal

Judit Farkas, a teacher in Hungary, decided to use iTEC Learning Activities to teach her Grade 9 pupils about Ancient Rome. The pupils collaborated using Google Docs, used mind-mapping applications to develop their ideas, and finally presented their project in a Prezi.

To view the class's Prezi presentation, click here.

Teacher: Judit Farkas

Country: Hungary

Gaelle Quenderf’s Year 11 class (16-17 year olds) decided to use the iTEC Learning Story ‘Students creating science resources’ to investigate the properties of water under specific condtions.

Read more about their enquiries here.

Teacher: Gaelle Quenderf

School: “Les p’tits curieux” Primary School Champtocé sur Loire

Country: France

Raffaella Fiorini is an English teacher in Chris Cappell College in Anzio, Italy. Raffaella decided that incorporating the use of digital technologies and audio-visual production into her English class might help to increase pupil motivation and help pupils to communicate with one another in new ways.

Click here to view their blog. 

• Teacher: Raffaella Fiorini
• School: Chris Cappell College
• Country: Italy

Anna Rita Vizzari, decided to use the ‘Benchmark and design’ Learning Activity as part of a history lesson. The pupils constructed models and created video presentations on buildings built during various epochs.

To read their blog, and view some of the videos created for the project, click here.

• Teacher: Anna Rita Vizzari
•  School: Secondary School Grade 1 "A. Gramsci"
•  Country: Italy

Escola Básica Alfredo da Silva is a primary school in Sebutal, Portugal. Maria D’aires Sitima, a science teacher in the school, taught her pupils about volcanoes and tectonic plate movement as part of the school’s iTEC project activities.

Leonel Rocha is a primary school teacher in Portugal. Leonal was able to use iTEC Learning Activities in biology class, and in teaching physical sciences.

Read more about Leonal's experience with iTEC Learning Activities here.

• Teacher: Leonel Rocha
• School: E.Secundária de Vagos
• Country: Portugal