Special Needs, use ICT, Drop papers

The SNIDeR (Special Needs, use ICT, Drop papers) project hopes to be a compass of new tools and methodologies to do an effective integration in classrooms of all students with special educational needs and without, introduce the idea of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE ) through the building of an electronic portfolio (e-Portfolio). The key words of the project are: ICT; colaborative practices; curriculum articulation ( languages, history; art; economy; biology; ICT).This project is complementary to other projects in the 5 partners schools, and we all want to improve inclusion education with ICT, know new cultures and share new ICT tools in innovational education. Each institution has a team of teachers with high skills in education and they decided to cooperate and share their good experiences. The project as different target: students with special needs, different countries and regions, that believe that local development bring global improvement and overall improvement brings local improvement. The applicant organization, Portugal, Agrupamento de Escolas de São João da Talha promotes an official education and training system. It has a deep experience in integrating ICT, using of b-learning and a good experience with special needs inclusion, social inclusion, racial, gender and linguistic projects. The other partners have experience in European projects and have the same goals on improving teaching with ICT and collaborative work.Besides the direct impact on the students and teachers participating, the project will have a direct and an indirect impact on the partner institutions on innovation in teaching: promote on service training for teachers, improve the teaching/learning environment, improve cooperation and collaboration between teachers and teachers and students, increase the use of new teaching and learning resources integrating ICT, use of new teaching and learning methods, greater commitment of students and parents, increase the number of successful students with and without disabilities, improved the quality of the education and inclusive education in partner institutions; make our schools a reference at the national level for the inclusion of students with special educational needs.The Project objectives pursued and achieved were:O1. Increase school success in integration of students with special needs in regular classroom;O2. Promote interaction between students with and without disabilities and teachers who act as role models for social, behavioral and learning skillsO3. Increase level of digital competence for teachers and students;O4. Reduce the weight of student backpacks by creating digital resources for learning;O5. Increase awareness to the sustainability of the planet by dropping paper;O6. Increase competence in communicate on foreign languages;O7. Increase teacher's professional competencies.The project has involved directly through participation in LTTA mobilities 57 students and 47 teachers.