Handbook: Mobility Ability Study Module
This material helps people with disabilities to develop life skills and be prepared to travel and stay in another European country.
Life skills include the effective use of problem solving behaviors related to social encounters, community participation, overcoming fears, making new friends and personal growth.
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Learning Outcomes
Students using this material develop the following competences:
- Sociability: students will be able to communicate with new people they have just met
- Teamwork: students will understand the importance of empathy and respect within a group
- Adaptability: students will understand the benefits of having new experiences and how to react when facing a problem
- Emotional control: students will learn how to manage emotional impulses
Delivery Guidelines
In order to get the most out of this digital learning product, both students and teachers, have an important role. The facilitators must animate the session in order to help students to reflect, take decisions and reach the right conclusions.
Teachers should have further knowledge about the skills that appear in the content so that learners can ask questions and receive expert support and feedback from the teachers, to get to know everything in more detail.
The professional uses the educational product on a projector during the sessions. The skills can be worked on in the given order or depending on the needs of the group, the professional can choose an ad hoc learning path and a different order.
As learners progress through the content, the teacher should ask questions to stimulate reflection on their own as individuals or as a group. This way, we help the students to feel satisfied and proud that they have reached the conclusion with no direct explanation from the professional.
It should be kept in mind that these are not theoretical sessions of passive listening, instead we imagine students to be proactive.
Pedagogical Guidelines
The software (Genially) that is used allows to include interactions, animations and videos into the material. This facilitates teachers to kick-off meaningful learning activities in a classroom setting.
When implementing and using the material, the session with the students will be very dynamic, entertaining and easy to understand.
The main idea is to transfer life skills in an attractive and exciting way. Therefore, students will not lose attention and will be more likely to develop their competencies. The learning is centered on activities and tasks that lead to both individual and group reflection.
Furthermore, they will have space to negotiate and decide in groups on real problems and how to deal with them.
At the same time as they are using this digital material, the students will have a significant role in the implementation, just as they have had in the design of the material.
The learners with disabilities have played an active role in co-designing and co-creating the educational product and we invite teachers to adopt a similar approach with students, supporting them in co-creation processes.
In conclusion, the methodology and learning is based on a shared process of communication between participants, based on reflection and challenges, supported by a digital educational product with videos and animations.
Technical Guidelines
In order to create this digital material, software (Genially.org) has been used to create interactions and animations.
The material is downloadable in HTML format so that it can run offline as well. In terms of technical requirements and specifications, you only need a web browser in its latest version. It is recommended to use Google Chrome for a better experience. The material is available in English.
Peer Reviews
Sara (student from Finland):
A very nice combination of facts and language skill, also English grammar!
