About our project
The Priorities, Objectives and Context of the Project:
The priorities of Active School Day -project are the following: to promote the children´s acquisition of skills and competences through effective and innovative teaching, and to strengthen the profile(s) of the teaching profession by supporting teachers in adopting innovative practices. Through teachers´new, innovative practices, it is possible to meet the main objective of the project, that is increasing children's physical activity during school day and to promote learning and healthy lifestyle by doing so.
The connection between physical activity and learning has been shown by many studies. The results have indicated that physical activity produces positive effects on many cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, information processing, and problem solving. Increasing children's physical activity during school days is the main objective of a Finnish Schools on the Move -program. The program is national, and one of the Finnish government´s Priority Projects.
The idea is to include physical activity in every subject, e.g. languages, music, mathematics etc. Furthermore, our idea is to create an Easy Tool Kit for Active School Day, i.e. a video, in which our ideas are shared internationally in easy and accessible form for teachers worldwide. The Easy Tool Kit for Active School Day -video will also be available in four languages (English, Italian, Spanish and Greek). Accordingly, the Finnish Schools on the Move -program has expressed a need and interest in such material, especially in English.
The Methodology of the Project
When thinking of creating new and innovative ways how to increase children´s physical activity during school days, we decided on three different tasks, that each country must perform on their behalf. The three tasks are to be carried out as videos, and the subjects will be published here later.
The priorities of Active School Day -project are the following: to promote the children´s acquisition of skills and competences through effective and innovative teaching, and to strengthen the profile(s) of the teaching profession by supporting teachers in adopting innovative practices. Through teachers´new, innovative practices, it is possible to meet the main objective of the project, that is increasing children's physical activity during school day and to promote learning and healthy lifestyle by doing so.
The connection between physical activity and learning has been shown by many studies. The results have indicated that physical activity produces positive effects on many cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, information processing, and problem solving. Increasing children's physical activity during school days is the main objective of a Finnish Schools on the Move -program. The program is national, and one of the Finnish government´s Priority Projects.
The idea is to include physical activity in every subject, e.g. languages, music, mathematics etc. Furthermore, our idea is to create an Easy Tool Kit for Active School Day, i.e. a video, in which our ideas are shared internationally in easy and accessible form for teachers worldwide. The Easy Tool Kit for Active School Day -video will also be available in four languages (English, Italian, Spanish and Greek). Accordingly, the Finnish Schools on the Move -program has expressed a need and interest in such material, especially in English.
The Methodology of the Project
When thinking of creating new and innovative ways how to increase children´s physical activity during school days, we decided on three different tasks, that each country must perform on their behalf. The three tasks are to be carried out as videos, and the subjects will be published here later.
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